Emily gets her gun...........

I had no idea registering a gun would be this expensive. I think the registration packet should state these costs up front. This is a lot of money for me, and I have a good job. So I don’t know how a lower-income DC resident could afford almost $500 in fees to have a legal gun.

“Are there any regulations in my leaving? I mean do I need to bring any kind of transportation?” I asked. She said she didn't understand my question.

... “I read the entire registration packet and didn’t see anything about a lock box. Does it say it in there?” I asked.

“Well, I don’t know it verbatim,” said the woman working in the police registry office of the 22-page instructions given out there.

“Is this the law?” I asked.

“I’m not going to say it’s the law to have a box,” said the woman working at the police department tasked with enforcing the gun law. “But normally when you are transporting, it has to be in some kind of locked container - a box or a back pack.”

Ah, I got it. Buried in the packet in Part IV, Section 9, the third bullet point says, “When transporting a firearm in a manner other than in a vehicle, it must be unloaded, inside a locked container, and separate from any ammunition.