Definition of 'Bowie' knife in regards to TX law?

There isn't one.

That may actually be on purpose.

I doubt you will ever get enough people to agree in order to even produce a definition. Some people (Frost Cutlery) will call almost any fixed blade knife a "Bowie"; which doesn't help matters at all.

Basically, stay within the 5.5 inch state law. If you are hunting, fishing, etc. you can carry an even larger knife.
 
This is probably the most classic example of a law being so intentionally vague that almost anything could be covered by it. Court decisions on this contain language like "everybody knows what a Bowie knife is," and yet there are also examples of five-inch blades being adjudicated to be "Bowie knives."

In other words, you're pretty much on your own with this one.
 
Samael said:
This is probably the most classic example of a law being so intentionally vague that almost anything could be covered by it. Court decisions on this contain language like "everybody knows what a Bowie knife is," and yet there are also examples of five-inch blades being adjudicated to be "Bowie knives."

In other words, you're pretty much on your own with this one.
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Yeah, Texas is ridiculously obscure in parts of the PC.....like the statute in regards to mufflers....law says they cannot emit a 'loud or unusual noise'....giving no definition of either...used to have fun with that one..
 
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