Knife Laws

Texas, America’s famous “Lone Star State,” has quite restrictive knife carrying laws that forbid many types of blade from public carry of any kind, open… Continue Reading →

Joining a number of other states, Tennessee recently revised its laws governing knife possession and ownership to allow much broader rights in both of these… Continue Reading →

The windswept state of South Dakota, once home to mighty herds of buffalo and, earlier, to Colombian and woolly mammoths, intrudes very little into the… Continue Reading →

The labyrinth of South Carolina knife laws was replaced by a highly knife-friendly legal structure in 2008 when a bill deleted certain passages from the… Continue Reading →

Brief and to the point, knife laws in Rhode Island are chiefly concerned with preventing the concealed carry of any knife or bladed implement, with… Continue Reading →

Though a sweeping renovation of Pennsylvania knife law is in debate in 2015 in the form of PA House Bill No. 230, Session of 2015,… Continue Reading →

Other than a few basic guidelines concerning illegal concealed carry and a law regarding possession of knives and other weapons by felons, knife laws in… Continue Reading →

The Buckeye State maintains some of the most imprecise knife statutes to be found in the United States today, which simultaneously enable possession of any… Continue Reading →

Knife law in the northern Great Plains state of North Dakota is defined both by its actual statutes and by what they do not cover.… Continue Reading →

Oklahoma made certain gains in knife rights and a preemption law was signed into effect in 2015, though the old laws continue to apply until… Continue Reading →