ALBANY â€" Following mass shootings this summer in Colorado and Wisconsin, a majority of voters in New York State favor more stringent laws restricting the purchase of guns, according to a poll released Wednesday.
Sixty-one percent of voters said they believed the state's laws pertaining to gun sales should be stricter, according to the poll, conducted by Quinnipiac University. And 68 percent of voters said they supported limiting handgun purchases to one per person per month.
The proposal for a limit on handgun purchases, by State Senator Michael N. Gianaris, Democrat of Queens, was one of several measures that lawmakers have suggested in the wake of the mass shootings and an uptick in gun violence in New York City. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, has said that new gun laws would be one of his top priorities for the legislative session that begins in January.
Voters in the poll also expressed widespread concer n about government corruption in New York State, a subject that is once again front and center as prosecutors and the state ethics commission investigate sexual-harassment allegations against a powerful Brooklyn assemblyman, Vito J. Lopez.
A majority of voters said Mr. Cuomo, not the leaders of the State Legislature, should bear primary responsibility for cleaning up legislative corruption. Fifty-six percent of voters had a positive view of Mr. Cuomo's efforts in that area, while only 24 percent believed that the legislative leaders were doing a satisfactory job.
Over all, voters remained very happy with Mr. Cuomo, with 70 percent approving of the job he is doing as governor. And a majority said Mr. Cuomo made the right decision when he opted to take a low-key role at last week's Democratic National Convention.
The poll, conducted by telephone of 1,589 voters from Sept. 4 to 9, has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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