A majority of residents in the swing state of Virginia support stricter gun laws, though the issue is largely divided along partisan lines, according to a NBC News/Marist poll released Wednesday.
Fifty-five percent of respondents said they favored stricter gun laws while 36 percent said they didn’t want the laws to change. Along partisan lines, 82 percent of Democrats wanted stricter gun laws, along with 56 percent of independents and just 29 percent of Republicans.
The poll of 1,218 Virginia adults was conducted between April 28-May 2 and has a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points.
