Any Basic Laws available for the Lower 48 States? On a State by State basic

I'm not sure I understand your question. Basic Laws? What do you mean? Like is there a good rule of thumb or something that would be applicable to all 48 states? No such thing. Some states have zero knife laws period and will let you hide a samurai sword down your paints. Some it's really vaguely worded and could apply to anything sharp. Length restrictions are actually uncommon these days; it's the kind of knife rather than the size. You really have to look at individual states to have an accurate idea of the law.
 
Problem I have found in discussing Laws is the interpretation, or trying to understand what could be summed up in a few words, that many times are pages or points, counter points, sections, and sub sections. You need a Yale Law Degree to understand.

I was hoping there was a web site that broke down the basic laws State by State in Laymen terms.

General Law like allowable length of blade, if or if not gravity assist, or locking blade were allowed or not.

If you get my point.
 
Such sites are generally untrustworthy and often do not update properly, especially in the last 4 years when numerous states have relaxed their knife laws. Though, I would say that knifeup.com does a pretty good job going state by state and is one of the few sites that incorporates case law. Only error I found was a state that had passed a new law 6 months prior that had not been updated.

I would contest that you need a law degree to understand knife laws of most states. I certainly don't have one and I feel I have a very good grasp of nearly every state I've researched. All laws are freely available on the internet from their respective government websites, federal, state, county and city.

But you know one of the most interesting things I've learned over all these years, reading all law books and talking to all those cops and DAs, is that the laws themselves are not really as important as you might think. Ever heard the expression "Don't break more than one law at a time"? Except for New York City, a police encounter over a carried knife alone is unheard of. Every case I find where an arrest is made involves the defendant being a knucklehead and getting the police's attention.
 
For Texas, knifeup is MOSTLY right since they have updated their switchblade references. Where they are still wrong is in their statement that ownership of gravity knives is prohibited. The only place that the words "gravity" and "knife" appear in the same section of the Penal Code is in the definition of "switchblade knife". There are no knives of any sort listed in the "list of prohibited weapons".

Here is a complete list of prohibited weapons from the Texas Penal Code, Section 46.05

Sec. 46.05. PROHIBITED WEAPONS (a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly possesses, manufactures, transports, repairs, or sells:
(1) an explosive weapon;
(2) a machine gun;
(3) a short-barrel firearm;
(4) a firearm silencer;
(5) knuckles;
(6) armor-piercing ammunition;
(7) a chemical dispensing device;
(8) a zip gun; or
(9) a tire deflation device.
 
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