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Support for requiring criminal background checks on all gun sales, including private sales; the GSS 2006 item asks specifically about private sales on a five-point scale, so its neutral answers are excluded to match the CES's support/oppose format.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 92% answered “Favor” in CES: Background checks on all gun sales, 2024.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: Background checks for all gun sales | Background checks for all gun sales On the issue of gun regulation, are you for or against each of the following proposals? [Background checks for all sales, including at gun shows and over the Internet] Caveat: Binary scale with no neutral option; mentions gun shows and Internet sales | equivalent | For → Favor; Against → Oppose |
| CES: Background checks on all gun sales | Background checks on all gun sales On the issue of gun regulation, do you support or oppose a proposal that would do the following? [Require criminal background checks on all gun sales] Caveat: Binary scale with no neutral option; no explicit mention of private sales | equivalent | Support → Favor; Oppose → Oppose |
| GSS | Background checks for private gun sales In most states a gun owner may legally sell his or her gun without proof that the buyer has passed a criminal history check. How strongly do you favor or oppose a law that required private gun sales to be subject to the same background check requirements as sales by licensed dealers? Do you… Caveat: Five-point scale with neutral midpoint; asks about private sales specifically | similar | Strongly favor → Favor; Favor → Favor; Oppose → Oppose; Strongly oppose → Oppose |