WASHINGTON, DC – A survey of Muslim voter households after Florida shooting has found an overwhelming support (93%) for requiring background checks for all gun sales and for other increased safety reforms to gun laws.

“The results of this survey clearly indicate that, like the vast majority of Americans of all faiths and backgrounds, Muslim voters support gun safety reform measures to keep firearms out of the hands of those who would misuse them to harm others,” Nihad Awad, National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said in a press release sent to AboutIslam.net.

The independent phone survey of 1250 registered Muslim voter households conducted February 22 in 27 states showed widespread support for a mandatory waiting period on gun sales and a ban on semi-automatic rifles.

In addition, CAIR’s survey also indicated that Muslim voters believe Congress and President Trump would have responded differently had the Parkland, Fla., school shooter been a member of their faith.

States with the largest number of respondents included Texas, California, Illinois, and Michigan.

Meanwhile, Awad said that CAIR, the US largest civil rights, and advocacy organization, supports reasonable gun safety reforms that could have the potential to stop mass-shootings like the ones that took place in Florida, Sandy Hook, Aurora, and Charleston.

He recommended policies that include expanding background checks to all gun sales – including private handgun sales, gun shows, and online sales and keeping guns out of the hands of individuals convicted of hate crimes, domestic violence or stalking.

CAIR is also calling for federally-funded research into the causes and effects of gun violence in America.

The survey followed the Florida deadly school shooting in which 17 people were killed earlier this month.