ICPSR Metadata record for CBS News "48 Hours" Gun Poll, March 1989 ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). CBS News "48 Hours" Gun Poll, March 1989 CBS News Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2009-04-03 9233 doi://10.3886/ICPSR09233.v2
This data collection is a nationwide survey of issues surrounding assault weapons. Topics covered include legislation regulating the importation, sale, and manufacture of assault weapons, the sale and use of handguns, and the National Rifle Association. Respondents also were asked to rate the performance of George Bush as president and to specify what they thought was the most important problem facing the country. Background information on respondents includes political party affiliation, sex, age, education, firearm ownership, and race.
 UniverseScheme09233 ICPSR.XVII.E ICPSR.XIV.C.1 assault weapons Bush, George H.W. gun legislation gun regulation handguns National Rifle Association presidency presidential performance public opinion weapons United States 1989-03-15 1989-03-15 survey data Adults aged 18 and over in the United States. Stratified random digit dialing. telephone interviews 1989-03-15 1989-03-15

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