Late last week the Examiner delved into one of the remaining unanswered questions standing between D.C. residents and the handguns they are now allowed to have — the stores where they can buy them.

The paper reported that the D.C. Zoning Commission has decided that gun shops will be allowed in all of the District’s four quadrants, though they will be limited to industrial zones and commercial corridors not zoned for neighborhood retail. Additionally, no gun shop will be allowed within 300 feet of a school, library, home, playground or church. The rules were passed as an emergency measure, meaning that they’re only in force until March, after which the commission has promised a public hearing to decide on a final set of regulations. The new rules are less restrictive than a proposal floated late last year that would have imposed even more onerous geographic and zoning restrictions on gun shops.

So after city officials break out the measuring tape and zoning maps, where will the gun shops end up?

In Ward 8, thanks to the 300-foot buffer, the only viable locations for gun stores are near Blue Plains deep in Southwest, at Suitland Parkway and Interstate 295, and in historic Anacostia off Shannon Place, according to a report from the D.C. planning office. A large chunk of Southwest between Independence Avenue and Interstate 395 is fair game, as is the New York Avenue corridor from Florida Avenue almost to the Maryland line.

There’s also a tiny plot along Connecticut Avenue NW in Van Ness, a cluster of parcels off Wisconsin Avenue just north of McLean Gardens, another plot off Wisconsin near Observatory Circle, and a small piece of M Street in Georgetown, again near Wisconsin Avenue. Downtown, between Pennsylvania Avenue and M Street as far west as 20th Street also is available for potential gun store business — though either side of 16th Street is off-limits.

It’s either hilarious or heinous to think that Georgetown might see a gun shop before an Apple store.