By NBC's Mark Murray

Forty-one percent of adults see the NRA -- the nation's top gun lobby -- in a positive light, while 34 percent view it in a negative light.

By comparison, just 24 percent have positive feelings about the entertainment industry, and 39 percent have negative ones.

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"That seems to me to be a pretty remarkably stable figure," says GOP pollster Bill McInturff,who conducted this survey with Democratic pollster Peter Hart.