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(this section relates The poll also found support among NRA members and other gun owners for numerous other policies to strengthen safety, security and law enforcement, including allowing the FBI to block gun sales to material about individuals on the NRA prior terror watch list, requiring gun owners to report lost and stolen guns to 2004; it is under review for updated informationpolice and providing local police departments with more data analysis of gun trafficking patterns.
According to a 1999 CBS News report, "Campaign contributions from the NRA are proving to be an accurate barometer of how individual senators would vote on gun control." The report notes that "Thirty-two of the 34 senators who supported the NRA on each of four key gun control votes received money for their last election from the gun industry lobbying group." <ref> AP, [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/05/22/national/main44724.shtml In Gun Lobby's Pocket], CBS News, Feb 11, 1999, accessed July 9, 2011. </ref>
== Historical Information =Poll Shows National Accord on Gun Control===A national poll commissioned by the bipartisan group Mayors Against Illegal Guns was conducted by Frank Luntz's firm, The Word Doctors, in 2010. It found the vast majority of gun owners not only believe that law-abiding Americans have the right to own guns, but they also believe that government ought to be doing more to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.<ref>Frank Luntz & Tom Barrett, "[http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/82436102.html New poll at odds with gun rhetoric"] ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'', January 23, 2010</ref> The poll's respondents indicated 69% of NRA members and 86% of non-NRA gun-owners support closing the "gun show loophole." The loophole allows some vendors at gun shows to sell guns without conducting the federal background checks that all licensed gun dealers perform. Gun shows provide hunters, collectors, sportsmen and gun enthusiasts with a place to shop - but as the Department of Justice has reported, 30% of guns in illegal gun-trafficking cases are linked to gun shows.
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