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No, "armed" means having a firearm on your person. You wouldn't get charged with "Armed Bank Robbery" if you walked into a bank wielding a flagpole.
by jb775 5y ago
No, "armed" means having a firearm on your person. You wouldn't get charged with "Armed Bank Robbery" if you walked into a bank wielding a flagpole.
- rOOb85 5y agoYou are absolutely incorrect. Being armed has nothing to do with firearms. Definitions: Armed - Bearing arms; furnished with means of offense and defense: as, an armed force or ship; “the armed rhinoceros,” Arms - Instruments or weapons of offense or defense. You absolutely can be charged with "armed robbery" without having a firearm. Using your bank example, here is a "armed bank robbery" where the suspect used a knife. https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/arrest-made-armed-bank-robbery-knife-offense-2000-block-k-street-northwest https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/arrest-made-armed-bank-robbery-k... Educate yourself if you are going to argue.