Legal Blade Length

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I am trying to decide whether to get the RaT RC-4 or Rat RC-3...does anyone know if Pennsylvania has a limit to the length of a blade that u are allowed to carry?...even if its for camping..hunting or fishing?
 
The limit in PA is 12" for concealed, 16" for open carry. I'd get the biggest blade I could.
 
wow.. the limit in Texas is 5.5inch blade, and up in yankeeland it's up to 16"? Thats not right!!!
 
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Did you just trip or is someone pulling your leg? :D

Pensylvanians aren't Yankees. Ya have to go northeast of New York State to find Yankees.
 
Jake Bauer said:
wow.. the limit in Texas is 5.5inch blade, and up in yankeeland it's up to 16"? Thats not right!!!
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Yeah I know :grumpy: I never understood that either, and now with the whole kershaw speedsafe lawsuit, who knows what us Texans will end up cutting stuff with :(

We can carry guns and have rifles in our trucks, but heaven forbid we have a knife with speedsafe or a fixed over 5.5" :D
 
meh.. I've already sold out on the AO thing.

I hope we can continue to carry our guns and have rifles in our trucks.
 
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Who would ever walk around the state of PA with a big honkin Fixed Blade at their side, anyway? :D
 
555 said:
Who would ever walk around the state of PA with a big honkin Fixed Blade at their side, anyway? :D
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Agree with that. Here in Oklahoma, I get snide remarks from some people if I carry a 3 to 5 inch fixed blade. Stuff like "who you gonna kill today?" So when I do wear a fixed, usually a full size Nimravus, I wear it under a untucked shirt. Untucked works better with a gun anyways, even though all of my holsters are tuckables.
I modified the kydex sheath of my old Nimravus so it carries higher up on my belt. This way it does not protrude from a untucked shirt too much.
 
555 said:
Who would ever walk around the state of PA with a big honkin Fixed Blade at their side, anyway? :D
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With that blade length you could EDC a machette :eek: :D

Try cleaning your fingernails in the office with that :p
 
J's Knives-N-More said:
With that blade length you could EDC a machette :eek: :D

Try cleaning your fingernails in the office with that :p
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:D Look at it this way, When was the last time that you ordered an Extra Large Pizza where the slices were cut all the way through?:eek:
A Peanut will never do for this job. :D
 
Us Texans in Dallas dont really care about the limit. my friend has a RAT thats 16 inches. He carrys it into restraunts and i carry my 15 incher everywhere i go(except school).
 
laws are only laws if you believe them. withdraw your consent! personal sovereignty is you're right as a human being. who has the right to say what you can carry or have?
no one!!!
 
The Texas 5.5 inch law that also specifically mentions a "bowie knife" as an "illegal knife" is likely a holdover from many years ago when the bowie knife was kind of the feared "assault weapon" of its day in the South and Southwest. Mississippi still classifies "bowie knives" along with firearms as weapons that a convicted felon cannot possess. Up until 2003, Florida still had a law on its books that specifically made it a crime to sell a "bowie knife or Winchester rifle" to a minor. Before this change in the law, I always thought that it would be an interesting defense against charges of carrying a "dirk or dagger" concealed in Florida to argue that what you were carrying was, in fact, a bowie knife which, by law, was considered different from a dirk or dagger. They plugged that hole in 2003, but it would seem that you can still carry about anything openly.
 
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