Texas state law.

[Wild Bill 1896]

Sirs,

The last time I checked, the Texas state code does not have definitions for daggers, dirks or bowie knives. I think it should.

I also think adult citizens with clean police records should be allowed to carry switchblades of a pattern not made illegal by the ban on carrying daggers, dirks or bowie knives.

I have contacted my state representatives for the past several sessions with no result. The legislature meets again next year. Help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[Wild Bill 1896]

Sirs,

In Texas only active duty military and law enforcement may carry automatic knives.

I believe any adult citizen with a clean record should be allowed to carry one.

The state legislature meets again next year. If you live in Texas, let's contact our state representatives and ask the law be changed.

Thank you.

 

[Shoki]

This might be a better thread for the laws subforum but I hope there are lots more people with your initiative. Are you a member of kniferights?

 

[discdoggin]

I would agree, and I am LEO...

DD

 

[glistam]

They already have it that way in Arizona. If you're over 21 and a non-felon, you can carry anything. Guns, switchblades, daggers, swords, anything. And so far they have had no increase in violent crime.

Carry laws are symbolic Mala Prohibita. The true crimes (Mala In Se) involving weapons are murder, assault, and robbery. Nobody wants to make those legal. Carry laws are a misguided effort to prevent those crimes, but where the rubber hits the road such laws have no effect. The criminal intending to do violence will carry no matter what the law says, and the police will not become aware the weapon is carried until after the violence is done, in all but the rarest of circumstances.