unsharpened false edge a dual edge?

[eddie500]

Is an unsharpened false edge ever considered a dual edged knife?

And when reading the laws.. I see no specific reference to dual edged knife.
Is there a special name for these knives?

 

[Blop]

Don´t know where you are from, but in germany many false edged autos, even the Benchmade 3500 (??) is legal because they don´t see it as a double edge.

 

[Watchful]

Is an unsharpened false edge ever considered a dual edged knife?

And when reading the laws.. I see no specific reference to dual edged knife.
Is there a special name for these knives?

I'm not aware of any law that distinguishes between false and real edges; I think it would depend upon the interpretation of the person calling you on it. I think he's just going to say "knife," regardless.

In most but not all state laws, single edged knives are usually considered "dirks," and dual edged knives are generally "daggers." Some states don't discriminate any difference. Again, most of the state laws I've looked at don't make exceptions for one kind or the other...they apply equally as "knives."

Does anyone know of an exception to this, where "daggers" and "dirks" (or however named by that legislature) are treated differently?

 

[txmoonwolf]

Well, in Texas, a dagger of any length (AFAIK) is illegal, while a single-edged knife is only illegal if it is longer than 5.5". A dirk is in the same category as Bowies and Arkansas Toothpicks, a fighting knife longer than 5.5", ergo illegal (even tho Texas law doesn't per se define "fighting knives", it's easy enough to recognize them as such). I think a prosecutor would have to argue that you had intent to modify/sharpen that false edge into a working one, by the means that you were also carrying a sharpening stone or file "on your person", to sucessfully get you for possessing a dagger, even if it isn't.
(Just hypothesing here, pls don't bite my head off. We've all heard horror stories of overzealous prosecutors, even if it's the same story over and over.)

Matt P in Texas