Gun Policy News
Concern Over Handgun Violence Reflected in State-wide Phone Poll
5 January 1998
Post-Crescent (Wisconsin)
MILWAUKEE — Laws that would treat handgun violence as a product safety issue won widespread support in a public opinion poll.
But the survey, by the Public Policy Forum in Milwaukee, also found that state legislators do not seem interested in considering the issue. Lawmakers also were far more likely than the general public to believe that new safety laws for handguns could restrict the constitutional right to bear arms.
The random telephone survey asked 600... (GunPolicy.org)