DC carry

Anyone have experience with a DC permit? I live in northern Virginia, and while I don't go to DC itself that often, I go to Maryland almost weekly, which often involves driving through DC depending on the route I take due to traffic. I hate not being able to carry there, so I'm currently in the process of getting my Maryland wear and carry permit, and my next move is planning to apply for the DC permit. Since they did away with the requirement for needing a reason to carry, I'm hoping the process isn't too difficult but since it's DC I'm assuming it's still probably a red tape nightmare.

Anyone local have any experience here? I hate that the DC metropolitan area doesn't have reciprocity, because you have one city sitting across three different states with wildly different laws and you may end up crossing over the lines multiple times in a day which makes it a real headache if you can't carry on one locale and you end up just being not able to carry at all.