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,…

As we mentioned yesterday, gun sales in the District will officially kick off next Tuesday, Sept. 9. But the city’s only licensed gun seller so far won’t actually be selling guns, he’ll just be facilitating transfers from guns purchased in other states. So what about gun shops? In June we predicted that no matter what the Supreme Court’s ruling said, the battle over guns in the District would boil down to where they could actually…