That includes support for controversial measures such as a reinstatement of the expired assault weapons ban and banning high-capacity magazines holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition.

Notably, though, Gallup did not attach the proposals to Obama or the White House. Americans reacted with more support to the individual measures in this poll than they did when Gallup polled on the general subject of Obama's proposals.

In that poll, 53 percent of respondents said they would want their representative to vote for the new laws, compared with 41 percent who did not.