This heavily depends on what the proposed restrictions actually are - and people never seem to actually know what the current restrictions are either. Ask for

This heavily depends on what the proposed restrictions actually are - and people never seem to actually know what the current restrictions are either. Ask for Universal Background Checks, and people say "sure". Make a national registry of firearms and criminalize loaning a rifle to a friend for a hunting trip or giving your guns to a neighbor for safekeeping while you're recovering from depression? A lot of people have now completely checked out, and it's the same damn policy. So yes, perhaps most gun owners, when polled, support "some basic restrictions on how quick and easy it is to buy a gun". But that doesn't mean they want to ban all private transfers, which is what the policy proposals always seem to be. (Guess what? Every single sale from a firearms dealer, which includes just about everyone at a gun show, requires a federal background check! And now a defacto 3+day waiting period for people under 21!) Not to mention the absolute lunacy of "a 15 inch rifle barrel means 10 years in prison", and THAT one has been federal law for quite a few decades.