In the past, trends of gun laws in DC were the subject of court challenges from gun rights advocates who favor rules and regulations on gun possession. DC’s history has some of the most strict gun licensing and registration laws in the United States. Those laws were chipped away over the past several years.
As a result, the DC legislature passed laws permitting people to be in possession of guns in their own private residences or in their place of business as long as those firearms are registered in the District.