By CHRIS CASTEEL, The Oklahoman

WASHINGTON -- For more than 30 years, handguns have been banned in the nation's capital. Residents here can own shotguns and rifles, but they have to be unloaded and either disassembled or fixed with a trigger lock.

On Tuesday, U.S. Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments about whether the District of Columbia's gun laws violate the Second Amendment.

WASHINGTON -- When Congress passed a law in 2003 creating the Do Not Call registry to block unsolicited phone contacts from telemarketers, lawmakers exempted political telephone calls.