Marquette Poll:

Wisconsinites display strong support for gun background checks.

Wisconsin voters are strongly in favor of having background checks for private and gun show sales, according to Monday’s Marquette University Law School poll.

The poll found 81% support background checks with 16% opposed. Seventy-eight percent of gun-owning households also favored background checks.

In a June 2016 Marquette poll, there was 85% support for background checks, with 12% opposition.

In the wake of last month’s mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., poll director Charles Franklin sought to gauge voter attitudes toward guns.

The poll found 44% of voters live in households with a gun and 48% do not. The poll found that gun ownership is more common in the Green Bay media market and the northwest portion of the state.

Overall, 56% favor a ban on assaultstyle weapons, while 40% are opposed. Among gun-owning households, just 43% favor such a ban, with 52% opposed.

The last time Marquette surveyed the issue, in March 2013, the overall numbers were 54% in favor of a ban on assault weapons and 43% in opposition.

Still, voters are unsure what effect new laws will have.

Asked how much new gun control laws could reduce the number of mass shootings, 12% said a great deal, 22% said a moderate amount, 19% a little, while 43% said not at all.