Most Mainers favor background checks on gun sales, poll shows

Source: Portland Press Herald

More than 60 percent of Mainers support a ballot initiative that would require background checks prior to private gun sales, according to a Portland Press Herald poll.

With six weeks left before Election Day, the campaign to close what critics contend is a fatal loophole in Maine’s gun laws appears to be maintaining strong support among voters, particularly in the state’s more populous regions and among women.

The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram poll was conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center on Sept. 15-20, 2016. Results are based on land line and cellular telephone interviews with 593 randomly selected Maine adults and 513 randomly selected likely Maine voters. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points for all adults and plus or minus 4.3 percentage points for likely voters.

Roughly 61 percent of survey participants said they supported Question 3 – which would require background checks prior to private, person-to-person gun sales – while 33 percent opposed the ballot measure. Six percent of the 509 people polled for the survey remained undecided.

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