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Given a choice, more Americans say their leaders should focus on school security and mental health than on changing gun sale laws.

Follow Gallup's special series on U.S. teachers' views on carrying guns in schools and the policies that they believe will make schools safer.

Most Americans would support new laws requiring universal background checks for gun purchases in the U.S. A majority also believe that more Americans owning and carrying guns would be effective in preventing situations like the Orlando mass ...

Americans' view of the National Rifle Association, or NRA, has grown more negative in the past year and is now at its least positive in a quarter-century.

More Americans than just two months ago are experiencing financial hardship from rising gas prices. Meanwhile, their view of the economy keeps worsening.

Read Gallup's short answer to this common question about gun ownership, including what percentages of major demographic subgroups own guns.

While a majority of Americans support the concept of stricter gun control, there is wide variation on backing for specific policies.

Of 15 key issues, Americans worry most about inflation and the economy, with concerns about drug use and Social Security increasing in the past year.

Americans overwhelmingly favor new background check laws, but tend to doubt they will reduce mass shootings. Americans do not favor banning handguns, and a majority think that carrying concealed weapons could make the nation safer.

Sixty-seven percent of U.S. adults say the laws covering firearm sales should be stricter, up from 60% last fall and the highest since 1993.