In Texas, you can buy and keep at home whatever you like. However there are State laws that regulate what you can carry on your person and in your vehicle. In addition, most cites/ towns will have some sort of city ordinance that will also regulate their carry status. So be sure and check your state and local ordinances prior to carry outside of your home. It is the possession " in a public place" that you have to be concerned with.
Legality of Certain Knives?
Giz has been showing us photos of his little Tak Fukuta SD dagger on several threads. On one of those, someone mentioned that a knife with a blade sharpened on both sides is illegal in Texas - and that prompted me to view several of the various 'sites with individual state rules and regulations concerning knives. The regs. always seem to be written in wordy-but-vague legalese - each state having it's own set determined by blade length, blade type, method of opening, etc.
I'm an old fella who nearly always has some kind of small folding knife on my person, and I feel undressed unless one is in my pocket. I also seem to be a magnet for Barney Fife-type LEOs who are always looking for someone to make an example of - so I'd like to be knowledgable about knife NoNos.
I know about "automatics" and very large knives, but much of the other stuff is hazy. Does possession of a CHL mollify any of these knife regs. ? Do the regs. apply only to possession on your person, or also to possession in your residence?
Some of the state regs. specifically prohibit knives with both edges sharpened. This Ralph Bone camp knife has a clipped point 4 3/4" blade and the clipped edge is sharp - so would possession of it be illegal in those states? The letter of the law says it is in Texas.
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All this seems vague and open to abuse by authorities with an bully agenda. Has anyone filtered through all of this and come to any simple conclusions?
xtm
I'm an old fella who nearly always has some kind of small folding knife on my person, and I feel undressed unless one is in my pocket. I also seem to be a magnet for Barney Fife-type LEOs who are always looking for someone to make an example of - so I'd like to be knowledgable about knife NoNos.
I know about "automatics" and very large knives, but much of the other stuff is hazy. Does possession of a CHL mollify any of these knife regs. ? Do the regs. apply only to possession on your person, or also to possession in your residence?
Some of the state regs. specifically prohibit knives with both edges sharpened. This Ralph Bone camp knife has a clipped point 4 3/4" blade and the clipped edge is sharp - so would possession of it be illegal in those states? The letter of the law says it is in Texas.
All this seems vague and open to abuse by authorities with an bully agenda. Has anyone filtered through all of this and come to any simple conclusions?
xtm
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I read all that stuff, Giz, and I found no comfort or guarantee for any hope that I would be treated reasonably and fairly by some overly officious bureaucrat who hates knives and guns. 
I'm thinking that someone carrying a gun with a CHL might fare a whole lot better with the Law than a someone simply carrying a legal self-defense knife. :?
xtm
I'm thinking that someone carrying a gun with a CHL might fare a whole lot better with the Law than a someone simply carrying a legal self-defense knife. :?
xtm
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This thread is really an eye opener. I just realized that the knife I use for working in construction is technically enough to get me a 2.5 year minimum sentence in Mass, as I drive through Boston ~ if picked up by a Mountie that's have'n a bad day.
We all have been joking about Great Britain's knife laws....but who here carries a fixed blade knife that is less then 1.5"? Go look at the Mass laws in the link above.
Dang, I'm afraid to even look at California....
giz
We all have been joking about Great Britain's knife laws....but who here carries a fixed blade knife that is less then 1.5"? Go look at the Mass laws in the link above.
Dang, I'm afraid to even look at California....
giz
NY knife laws are kinda funny.... no "dangerous knives" allowed!
I also can't have that ninja star I've had my eye on
Updated 7/18/2008 10/27/2005 3/15/06
New York - Penal Law Section 265.01. A person is guilty of
criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree when:
(1) He possesses any firearm, electronic dart gun, electronic stun
gun, gravity knife, switchblade knife, pilum ballistic knife, metal
knuckle knife, cane sword, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, metal knuckles,
chuka stick, sand bag, sandclub, wrist-brace type slingshot or
slungshot, shirken or "Kung Fu star"; or
(2) He possesses any dagger, dangerous knife, dirk, razor, stiletto,
imitation pistol, or any other dangerous or deadly instrument or weapon
with intent to use the same unlawfully against another; or
(5) He possesses any dangerous or deadly weapon and is not a
citizen of the United States...
Criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree is a class A
misdemeanor.
I also can't have that ninja star I've had my eye on
Updated 7/18/2008 10/27/2005 3/15/06
New York - Penal Law Section 265.01. A person is guilty of
criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree when:
(1) He possesses any firearm, electronic dart gun, electronic stun
gun, gravity knife, switchblade knife, pilum ballistic knife, metal
knuckle knife, cane sword, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, metal knuckles,
chuka stick, sand bag, sandclub, wrist-brace type slingshot or
slungshot, shirken or "Kung Fu star"; or
(2) He possesses any dagger, dangerous knife, dirk, razor, stiletto,
imitation pistol, or any other dangerous or deadly instrument or weapon
with intent to use the same unlawfully against another; or
(5) He possesses any dangerous or deadly weapon and is not a
citizen of the United States...
Criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree is a class A
misdemeanor.
So how about crutches, canes or knitting needles... are they weapons of mass destruction also? How about shovels, axes and scissors?
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