Q-Poll: Floridians Support Stricter Gun-Control Laws

Even though an overwhelming number of Florida voters support universal background checks (a 91-8 percent margin) and stricter laws on guns generally, more of them still say the National Rifle Association better reflects their views on gun control than President Obama does -- even if it's only by 45-44 percent.

Florida voters support 5144 percent stricter statewide gun-control laws, with gun owners opposed 6133 percent.

This, according to the Quinnipiac Polling Institute, which on Thursday released its survey of 1,000 registered voters in the Sunshine State. It found that Floridians' attitudes on gun control are consistent with margins found in other states it polled.

Voters in gun-owning households support universal background checks, 8811 percent, the poll finds.

Floridians views on guns are pretty much in line with results seen in other states surveyed by Quinnipiac University, said Peter Brown, assistant director at Quinnipiac. Women are more likely to support restricting guns than men; blacks more than whites and Democrats more than Republicans. The idea of requiring background checks on those who want to buy guns has overwhelming support, 918 percent, in a country where getting a majority to agree on anything is often difficult.

Here is a compilation of the survey's major findings on Floridians' attitudes:

5641 percent support a nationwide ban on the sale of assault weapons, with gun-owners opposed 5741 percent;
5343 percent support a nationwide ban on the sale of high-capacity magazines holding more than 10 rounds, with gun-owners opposed 5640 percent;
5936 percent support placing armed police officers in schools;
5733 percent that gun ownership in Florida does more to protect people from crime than to put them at risk;
6031 percent say allowing people to own assault weapons makes the country more dangerous rather than safer, with gun owners divided 4444 percent.

From March 1318, Quinnipiac University's survey of 1,000 registered voters was conducted March 13-18, with a margin of error of +/- 3.1 percentage points. Live interviewers called land lines and cell phones.

For more details of the polls, click here.