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Handguns and cigarettes were two hot topics addressed by the Flint City Council on Monday. A split city council voted 7 2 to change a local ordinance so the city law on the carrying of firearms doesn't conflict with the state's open carry law, which allows people to openly carry a handgun in public.

Davis County commissioners unanimously approved an ordinance Tuesday banning the discharge of firearms in the area east of Highway 89 and up to 7,000 feet in elevation.

The gun registry has been a controversial and costly political issue since it was first debated 15 years ago. Global News takes a look at the evolution of the federal government's long gun registry.

Less than a month from now, the heated battle over the nation's long gun registry could come down to the voting decisions of 12 NDP members of Parliament. Will they vote to keep the registry, or to kill it?

After grappling with the constitutionality of Westchester County's gun storage law, legislators aren't going to change it -- not yet. The county law, enacted in 2000, requires owners to store a gun with a safety lock or in a safe storage depository.

When Bill c-391, an act to repeal the long gun registry, came to a vote on second reading last November, it was passed by a count of 164 137. Those 164 votes in favor included 143 Conservatives, 12 New Democrats, eight Liberals and one independent. C-391 is now due to return to the House for a final vote when the House returns this fall and the vote seems set to be very close.

For the rest of his life Pastor William Duncan of Caldwell Springs Baptist Church will remember the Fourth of July as the day he lost his freedom. “I learned our freedoms can be taken away in a heartbeat,” the 64-year-old Duncan said of the ordeal he encountered in Washington, D.C., when he was arrested in front of his shocked family and forced to spend last month’s Fourth of July weekend in the city’s jails.

Kansans can have them, carry them, and shoot them. But did you know you don`t have a constitutional right to own a gun in Kansas? At least, not yet. This November, when you vote for legislators and a new governor, you will also be asked to amend the Kansas State Constitution - to give Kansans the right to own a gun.

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision may mean that Westchester County's gun-storage law violates the Constitution, so some lawmakers are taking a look at that statute to see if it will hold up. The county law requires owners to store a gun with a safety lock or safe-storage depository, but recent rulings concluded that such laws may actually make it harder for people to defend themselves in their own homes, violating their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

Anyone who traveled behind the Iron Curtain back in those days probably didn’t have to look very hard to find groups of “workers” sitting around doing pretty much nothing, except collecting a taxpayer-funded government paycheck.

The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution provides, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Since the Supreme Court decided District of Columbia et al. v. Heller128 S.Ct. 2783 (2008), was delivered on June 26, 2008 the Second Amendment right to "keep and bear arms" has been a subject of much debate across the nation. Pundits, scholars and courts have split on how the opinion would impact firearm regulation in the United States. While it may take years to unravel the implications of the decision, the answer has its start in McDonald, et al., v. Chicago 561 U.S. (2010)

National lawmakers were in Chicago holding a Congressional hearing on proposed gun control legislation today.