Don't know, guess it depends on how it's being carried. One time, I brought my vintage Japanese sword into San Francisco's Japantown to have experts determine it's age. Parking difficult, walked some 4 blocks with it slung over my shoulder sheathed. No one paid any attention to it, even when I went into local grocery stores there to buy items. Just lots of smiles from local Asians.
Thanks, in medieval times only a free man or someone of elevated status could do what you did.