I'm not surprised by anything the news has on these days. If folks were too lazy to do the research for a presidential election, what makes you think they'll do anything but take the news agencies word for it that back ground checks are great. They don't understand what all is involved or the data stream that these checks will create and what someone could do with it. It's called low knowledge voters...and we have some incredible dumbasses in this nation.
Unfortunately we can thank a Texan for this, Lyndon Johnson and his Great Society. We have a whole breed of Government dependents that have no clue what work means other than it must be a dirty word as it's 4 letters long and ends in K. It's not "our" tax dollars they are getting, it's their money that the Gov't owes them, just ask one of them.