Blade length and the "man"..

SCWillson said:
In Texas you can carry any knife up to 5½" (except a dagger) either openly or concealed. There are a few exceptions: government buildings, prisons, schools, and the like, but for the most part the Lone Star State is pretty easy on knife users. Some cities such as San Antonio and Austin may well have more restrictive regulations but in El Paso the rules are the same as the state's.

I've never once been stopped or questioned for carrying a knife and I've open carried here since 1977.
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The only cities in Texas with blade length/type restrictions (as of 12/28/2013, to my knowledge) are:

San Antonio - ANY locking folder with a blade length of LESS THAN 5.5 inches. Since Texas has a MAXIMUM legal length of 5.5 inches, this effectively bans ALL locking blade knives.

Corpus Christi bans ANY folder 3 inches or more in length. So the folder has to be less than 3 inches in length. CC also bans ALL fixed blades.

Dallas COUNTY bans any knife longer than 4 inches on "county owned" or "county controlled" property.
Dallas, the city of, bans knives of any type in all parks and libraries, and many if not all city owned/controlled properties.

Houston bans knives on "city property" with no definition of what constitutes "city property".

Several cities have bans on knives in parks, political rallies, or airports.

http://www.handgunlaw.us/documents/USKnife2.pdf has an extensive but NOT complete list of city ordinances restricting knives.
 
First you should always obey the law and seek to change the law (as Knife Rights is legally doing), when the current law is oppressive. Many places do not enforce the written law as many states call any knife that can be flicked open a gravity knife or switchblade. We know this is normally not enforced, but it often is the law. In NYS, the law is over enforced in NYC where there are thousands of arrests each year just for a knife charge, but else where in the state, the knife would only be an add on charge to a more serious crime.

The simple answer is obey the law, and know all exceptions to the law and case law as to how the courts enforce the law. Knowledge and a proper attitude can make all the difference if you need to engage in a conversation about a knife with an LEO.
 
Firstly, I have no disdain for LEO. When I'm refuring to "the man", I was refuring to local statutes. I have the utmost respect for men and women in uniform.

Secondly, I'm well aware of the fact, that if I'm misbehaving, I may lose my blade. I might also be arrested, but I think at this point, I have more to worry about than the 3.5" knife in my pocket.

What I was getting at, is that I'm surprised by the amount of you that follow the law to the tee. And I'm not talking about gravity knives, autos or AOs. I was just simply surprised by the amount of average joes around here, ones that will more than likely never have a run in with the law, worring about it. I'm surprised when they won't pick up that new CRK because it's 1/8" over the limit? That's all..
 
Oklahoma knife laws are very vague and no blade length limit is specified so I carry what I want as far as that goes. I carry a cold steel xl voyager clip point (5.5" blade), xl voyager tanto (5.5" blade) or holdout 1 (6" blade) quite often as my primary defensive knife and always a zt 0170 fixed blade (6.5" blade) and pretty often other large knives along with them for my edc like a benchmade 275, spyderco millie, spyderco manix 2 xl, spyderco resilience and so on. I'm really not worried about it since the law doesnt specify whether they are legal or illegal and even if I were stopped and questioned about it (which is extremely unlikely anyways) I have a good reason to carry any single one of them.
 
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