USA Today: Support for gun control bill falls below 50%

For weeks for now — and especially after the gun background check bill failed in the Senate last week — gun control activists have been repeatedly invoking the figure of 90 percent, claiming that was the number of people that supported the legislation.

Typical was Washington Post writer Scott Clement who wrote a post headlined: “90 percent of Americans want expanded background checks on guns. Why isn’t this a political slam dunk?”