Mexico Knife Laws

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I hope someone can help me. I'm going to Cabo for vacation and wanted to know if I could carry a folding knife around in Mexico. I feel naked without one. The State department says they don’t recommend it but are vague about the real law. They do say if you are arrested for something else you can be charged with carrying a knife as a second charge. If anyone has any more info on the law in Mexico in regards to carrying a knife it would be great thank you.
 
I don't know what the laws are in reality.but I was stopped in Mexico, and almost arrested for having a pocket knife. The knife was taken from me and I had a $60 to get out in handcuffs. Personally, my advice is to find another country to take a vacation in.tourism is down about 75%, and there can be desperate for anything to shake people down for.
 
Same Here, Mexico seems to have no real set laws just cops trying to shake you down for bribes. The last time I went there the cops didn't think my bribe was big enuff ( All I did was walk down the wrong Street ... Oh and being White) and I nearly had to go to town on 3 "cops" if you can call them that, I was not going to a Mexican jail.
No Way No How!! Need less to say I have NOT been back. Never again.
 
According to a Mexican lawyer that I had spoke with in the past, there are very few if any laws governing knives (and many other implements) in Mexico. IIRC, one of the border towns did criminalize carrying knives. However I never really was able to verify what he said, and regardless the experiences of the prior posters demonstrate that regardless of how liberal the laws may be, you are at the officer's whim.
 
A druid said:
I don't know what the laws are in reality.but I was stopped in Mexico, and almost arrested for having a pocket knife. The knife was taken from me and I had a $60 to get out in handcuffs. Personally, my advice is to find another country to take a vacation in.tourism is down about 75%, and there can be desperate for anything to shake people down for.
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What knife? How was it carried? And where were you at?
 
There are different states, localities that have a different sets of rules. Not all Mexican officers are dishonest. Local police do not make hardly any money and they need to supplement their income. Mordida has been in existence forever--it is like giving the waiter a tip!
http://www.mexicomatters.net/retirementmexico/04_bribeslamordidainmexico.php

The main thing that you MUST remember: when you are in Mexico, you have NO rights. They can and will lock you up at their whim and nobody will know what happened to you. It is a third world country.

I have travelled the country extensively and I have never had any problems. But, I don't cause any problems either. I almost always carry a knife and I have never had a problem. Many Americans go down to Mexico and break laws, walk around drunk, insult women, break traffic laws, and generally make fools of themselves and then wonder why they get into trouble.
 
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