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Crosstabs - Heartland Institute: Assault Rifles - November 13-14, 2019

Strong Voter Support for Second Amendment Doesn’t Extend to Assault Rifles
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National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted November 13-14, 2019 By The Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports
  Total Gender Age Race Party Ideology Education Income Employment Do you support legislation that would ban private ownership of “assault-style” rifles? Do you support repealing the Second Amendment, which currently guarantees Americans’ right to “bear arms”?
LV's Men Women 18-39 40-64 65+ White Black Hispanic Other Republican Democrat Other Conservative Moderate Liberal Not sure Attended HS Did Not Grad HS Graduate Attended College Did Not Complete College Grad Grad School Not sure Under $30K $30K-$50K $50K-$100K $100K-$200K $200K+ Not sure Gov't Entrepreneur Private Co. Retired Other Yes No Not sure Yes No Not sure
Do you support legislation that would ban private ownership of “assault-style” rifles? Yes 49% 43% 53% 51% 46% 51% 49% 48% 48% 48% 32% 68% 43% 30% 56% 71% 18% 36% 50% 48% 47% 53% 14% 46% 51% 50% 50% 54% 35% 46% 46% 53% 49% 45% 100% 0% 0% 73% 39% 54%
No 43% 49% 37% 40% 46% 41% 43% 43% 43% 41% 61% 24% 47% 62% 34% 23% 56% 51% 39% 44% 47% 39% 57% 44% 43% 41% 45% 43% 47% 44% 45% 41% 45% 41% 0% 100% 0% 21% 54% 19%
Not sure 8% 8% 9% 9% 8% 8% 8% 9% 9% 11% 7% 8% 10% 8% 9% 6% 26% 13% 12% 8% 6% 8% 29% 11% 7% 9% 5% 3% 18% 10% 9% 6% 7% 14% 0% 0% 100% 5% 7% 27%
  Total Gender Age Race Party Ideology Education Income Employment Do you support legislation that would ban private ownership of “assault-style” rifles? Do you support repealing the Second Amendment, which currently guarantees Americans’ right to “bear arms”?
LV's Men Women 18-39 40-64 65+ White Black Hispanic Other Republican Democrat Other Conservative Moderate Liberal Not sure Attended HS Did Not Grad HS Graduate Attended College Did Not Complete College Grad Grad School Not sure Under $30K $30K-$50K $50K-$100K $100K-$200K $200K+ Not sure Gov't Entrepreneur Private Co. Retired Other Yes No Not sure Yes No Not sure
Do you support repealing the Second Amendment, which currently guarantees Americans’ right to “bear arms”? Yes 24% 24% 23% 33% 19% 18% 20% 32% 34% 27% 19% 34% 16% 22% 21% 30% 23% 36% 33% 19% 23% 20% 5% 29% 27% 24% 20% 13% 21% 32% 21% 22% 19% 32% 36% 12% 15% 100% 0% 0%
No 66% 69% 64% 56% 71% 73% 72% 52% 54% 55% 77% 51% 74% 74% 68% 55% 48% 52% 58% 70% 67% 72% 22% 58% 63% 66% 74% 74% 65% 60% 68% 70% 74% 50% 53% 84% 53% 0% 100% 0%
Not sure 10% 7% 13% 10% 10% 9% 8% 16% 13% 17% 4% 15% 11% 4% 10% 15% 30% 12% 9% 12% 9% 9% 73% 13% 10% 10% 6% 13% 13% 8% 11% 9% 7% 18% 11% 4% 32% 0% 0% 100%
Survey Demographics
  Total
LV's
Gender Men 48%
Women 52%
  Total
LV's
Age 18-39 35%
40-64 48%
65+ 17%
  Total
LV's
Race White 70%
Black 12%
Hispanic 13%
Other 5%
  Total
LV's
Party Republican 33%
Democrat 37%
Other 30%