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PRINCETON N.J. — More than nine out of 10 Americans support a proposed law that would require a seven-day waiting period before purchase of a handgun, a Gallup poll shows. Americans
generally follow a pattern of favoring specific restrictions on gun ownership--such as the proposed waiting period--but resisting an outright ban. Although two-thirds of Americans agree that
gun control laws should be stricter than they are, only 43% favor a prohibition on handgun ownership by private citizens. The results are based on telephone interviews with a randomly
selected national sample of 1,010 adults, 18 and older, conducted March 21 to 24, 1991. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. MORE TO READ