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D.C. is a world of its own, and a world of hurt. If you pass through there, make sure EVERYTHING is in a locked container, and refuse consent to ANY search, no matter how many threats the office makes. Under D.C. law, a gun includes not just the gun, but any ammunition, or component of ammunition, INCLUDING spent casings. if you have any of these items in the District, you have violated the city codes and are subject to arrest, unless it just so happens that the firearm is registered in the City, or the ammunition or components will fit in a firearm registered in the City.
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1) Not quite a world of its own. In Massachusetts spent casing are also "ammunition." And they don't constitute a "gun" but ammunition which are different laws and penalties.
2) the "fit in a firearm registered in the city" was eliminated a few years ago. If you have a .22 registere, d you can have 223, 45, whatever.
3) DC is covered by FOPA. Like a number of jurisdictions you may still get arrested but this has only happened with people not directly traveling through. Yes it is injust for DC to arrest people with ammo while visiting the Washington monument, etc, but they are obviously not doing what FOPA envisions if they are stopping to visit federal museums.
There are no clean case of arrests for simply traveling directly through DC with a locked in trunk or locked case in rear of SUV unloaded firearm.
So the answer is why bother given our strict regulations in DC. But let's also not exaggerate them with incorrect information either. DC was neither the first US jurisdiction to define nor prosecute possession of constituent parts of ammo that can be assembled as "ammunition." Massachusetts was.