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The AP's interest in knife laws stems from the recent death, in police custody in Baltimore, of Freddie Gray. Police justified Gray's arrest by claiming he was carrying an "illegal" switchblade knife. It turned out that the knife was a perfectly "legal" blade.
That aside, Holland is wrong in any case. Knife laws don't vary from town to town, county to county, state to state. There's one federal knife law. It applies to all levels of government in the United States, and unlike most laws these days it is simply written and impossible to misunderstand:
"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." |
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jac
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Holland is right. Knife laws vary all over the place. In Texas you can't carry any knife with a blade over 5 inches.
Stupid article. I don't even get what point he is trying to make. |
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