LANSING, Mich. — Michigan voters broadly support measures advancing in the Legislature to combat gun violence but would also favor lawmakers going further by placing limits on magazine capacity and imposing a 14-day waiting period for buying firearms, according to a new statewide poll.
Three weeks after a gunman killed three students and wounded five others on the campus of Michigan State University, the survey conducted by the Lansing-based Glengariff Group from March 1-4 found strong approval for the effort to impose new restrictions on the sale and storage of weapons.
Among 600 registered voters, 75% said they favored a 14-day waiting period for buying a gun, 60% backed the idea of putting a capacity limit on magazines and 55% supported banning semiautomatic assault weapons. The poll, which surveyed a similar percentage of Democrats (37%) and Republicans (36%), had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points and was released exclusively to The Detroit News and WDIV-TV (Channel 4).
