For over a decade, Goodland Guns operated in an unassuming strip mall in Old Town Goleta, where it sold handguns, rifles and ammo two doors down from the bustling original location of the national Habit Burger & Grill chain.
The firearms retailer never got any formal complaints at that location, according to city officials in Goleta, an affluent Santa Barbara County coastal town.
But this summer, Goodland Guns moved to a new location next to a day-care center, where it now shares a fence with the playground. The move stunned and outraged families in Goleta — a place traumatized by mass shootings — and made it the latest California city to contemplate its own restrictions on gun stores…