Poll: 65 Percent of New Yorkers Back New Gun Control Law

Recently passed legislation among the most restrictive in the country

Most New Yorkers support a stringent new state law that tackles gun control, a poll out Monday showed.

According to a survey from Siena Research Institute, 65 percent of those polled back the measure, which was passed last month in the wake of the December shooting massacre in Newtown, Conn. Thirty percent are opposed.