Buying a gun along with your school supplies and groceries was too good to be true, but how about at a D.C. police station? Tonight the Zoning Commission will consider an emergency measure that would allow firearms to be sold within a "District law enforcement or licensing agency," City Paper reports.

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Why the emergency? The only licensed firearm dealer in D.C. lost his lease earlier this year, and in May, the Second Amendment Foundation and gun owner Michelle Lane filed a suit in U.S. District Court alleging that D.C., because it lacked a licensee, was violating Lane's right to bear arms (*sigh*). Councilmember Phil Mendelson recently proposed the District become a licensee itself, but Mayor Vince Gray didn't like that idea.

As you can see, there are no remaining solutions. And really, what safer place to sell guns than inside a police station?

[via WCP]