Good morning, Washington. D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson is hosting a roundtable meeting at noon today on revising the District’s gun laws in response to the Supreme Court decision last week. D.C. Wire has the witness list, which is made up of concerned citizens, pro and anti gun advocates, and caps off with Police Chief Cathy Lanier. The front of the Post’s Metro section notes that every single one of the D.C. Council members have signed on to support Mendelson’s bill, and that Mendelson has said he will depend on the testimony he hears at today’s roundtable to decide whether emergency legislation should be introduced before the July 15 recess. Otherwise, the Council won’t vote on the bill until the fall.

MPD Discovers Historic Handcuffs: The Examiner reports that Workers cleaning out a closet at D.C. police headquarters last week discovered the handcuffs used to detain the man who assassinated President James A. Garfield. Neat. Considering that earlier this year, the department found a historic booking log that is one of the first written records of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, seems like maybe they ought to hire a new cleaning service just to make sure they know what they’ve got in there.

Fenty Replacing Taxi Commission Members Who Opposed Meters: More from the Examiner, this time with the scoop that three members of the D.C. Taxicab Commission who opposed replacing zone fares with time and distance meters will be replaced by new mayoral appointees. Hopefully those new members know that even with meters, some taxi rides are still just as confusing.

Briefly Noted: Crews have repaired a cracked rail on the Red line at the Takoma station … Man found dead at Loudoun County jail … D.C. preps to test mass evacuation plan.

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