According to the survey, 55% of Americans generally favor stricter gun control laws, with 56% saying that it's currently too easy to buy guns in this country.
While the FAA uses its own workforce of some 14, 700 controllers to staff about 280 control towers at major airports, it contracts with three companies to staff roughly another 250 towers, generally at smaller airports.
It also generally runs well in the more sparsely populated upstate counties, though voters there tend to be anti-gun control and often socially conservative.