The bipartisan coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns today announced the results of a new public opinion survey showing overwhelming support among Latino voters for strong gun laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, tough enforcement practices, and state control over who can carry concealed, loaded guns in public places.

The survey by Lake Research Partners shows Latinos strongly believe laws governing gun sales should be made stronger and that states – not Congress – should have the authority to decide who can carry loaded, concealed guns within state borders. A measure headed quickly for a vote by the U.S. House would override state authority to set standards for who can obtain a concealed carry permit.

Among the poll’s key findings:

- 69 percent of Latino voters believe laws governing the sale of guns should be stronger.  24 percent believe laws should be kept as they are now, and only five percent of Latinos believe gun laws should be less strict.

- A large majority of Latinos, including more than 70 percent of Latino Republicans, Latino gun owners and Latinos over 50, believe that people from other states should not be allowed to carry a loaded and concealed gun in their state unless they meet their state’s legal requirements.

- Nearly nine in 10 Latinos – 86 percent – support requiring all gun buyers to pass a criminal background check, no matter where they buy the gun and no matter who they buy it from.  Today, only federally licensed gun dealers are required to perform background checks, although 40 percent of U.S. gun sales are conducted through unlicensed sellers.

- 6 percent of Latinos favor a new Obama Administration program requiring gun dealers in border states to report when someone attempts to buy more than one semi-automatic assault rifle within a five-day period.

The Lake poll also shows strong support among Latino voters for requiring all gun sellers to conduct instant criminal background checks, a central element of the Fix Gun Checks Act of 2011.  The legislation was first proposed by the Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition after January’s mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona and has been introduced in the House and Senate. 

MAIG is a coalition of liars that represent less than 3% of all Mayors in the 19,335 towns and cities throughout the US.

The simple fact is if the position and lies that MAIG put forth were such a truth and good, selling their position to ALL the mayors would be simple.

But actions speak louder than words, and less than 3% membership indicates that only the extremist leftists believe the lies and position of MAIG.

We also question any poll purchased and requested by any anti-gun organization as being skewed and fraudulent to achieve a desired agenda as has been proven over and over again rather than a true result as it really is simple to word questions to get a desired answer.

That and any poll that has less than 2,000 people of Latino descent does not represent that group with any accuracy or OVERWHELMING ka ka in any fashion.

That and polling a group of Latino’s, just across from Mexico, where they ahve been restricted by the state, just reflects how little most of them understand what freedom is and means, much less what the governing law of our country, the US Constitution & BOR is and means.

So if you want to post irrelevant ka ka from an inrrelevant group, proven to lie and manipulate and control people because they are simply afraid of your rights, go right ahead and we 80 mil plus law abiding citizens who own firearms will chuckle and laugh at such pathetic irrelevance, and correct such undignified lies as put forth by MAIG and there oh so few coalition of liars!