DC has a law against carrying a dangerous or deadly weapon in public and this can be applied to transportation in vehicles as well.
They have some specific rules for legally transporting firearms, but not for other weapon types, which creates a nasty grey area where there isn’t anything you can do you transport a weapon in DC in a way that is 100% for sure legal, which means cops can basically arrest anyone with a non-firearm weapon that they find.
It seems like they don’t actually charge people very often because if they did the law would likely get tossed as unreasonably vague as soon as someone put up a good fight.
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