Support among Americans for tougher gun controls has increased in recent months, an Associated Press-GfK poll released Saturday found. But despite growing favor for enhanced background checks and other protocols, most adults have low expectations that calls for reform will transfer into legislation.

Nearly two-thirds of national adults — 64 percent — who were polled July 7-11 want stricter laws for purchasing firearms, up 6 points since the last AP poll in December. National support has remained in the 50s since the first poll was taken in October 2013, 10 months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut.