Posted on 12/31/2018 7:24:46 AM PST by marktwain
Brass knuckles? You ever seen somebody worked over by a brass knuckle wielding thug? The damage is medieval and permanent disfiguration is likely. Multiple jaw breaks, orbital sockets. Multiple teeth damage knocked out. Eardrum damage, permanently deaf. If they know what they’re doing they’ll know how to do maximum damage without killing you. Makes it effectively torture.
It’s worse than pistol whipping. There is no place in society that has carry and concealed carry law for brass knuckles being made legal.
I was born from a long line of Americans and have been around quite a while, having grown up in the South and the Midwest. When I was young, brass knuckles were used nearly exclusively by crooks to sucker-punch victims in sneaky ways.
Men sometimes settled conflicts with fists, but use of a weapon could land someone in prison. Someone disturbing someone else’s peace with name-calling or vulgarities could legally be punched, if no serious injury resulted. Old people, women and disabled people weren’t attacked much, because bystanders—even strangers—reacted instantly and violently to that.
Circumstances have changed, though, with various foreign cultures being moved around continuously to employment hot spots by slavers and generating conflicts. People change. So yes, women need weapons—even hand weapons reminiscent of trench warfare—to get safely back and forth in dark parking lots. In some areas devolving with foreign cultures, men need weapons, too.
You are complete mistaken on this. SBS (short shotguns) and SBRs (short barreled rifles) are completely legal in the state of Texas.
Remember, though, that many of the legal and temporary societal changes that we are seeing are for adding efficiency to a campaign of taking out the trash. And for now, there will be more private cameras in use every year. Anyone using weapons like brass knuckles against someone who has no history or reputation of criminality will be giving up some of his or her rights after violating the rights of another. There’s also the chance of being both shot and imprisoned.
My knuckles are cast iron I believe. I also posess an excellant sap and two black jacks.
I lost my switch blades but have three or four daggers. I have a derringer with two, that is only two rounds. The are very old and might not discharge.
If the SHTF, I will saw off the barrels of one of my shotguns, probably the 16 ga but I can’t make up my mind.
My seldom used tire deflation tool is also a never used ice pick.
Perhaps we are having a semantic misinterpretation.
The short barreled firearms are banned in Texas statutes *unless* they are approved by the National Firearms Act.
It is in Texas code as sec 46.05. Prohibited Weapons:
(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly possesses, manufactures, transports, repairs, or sells: (1) any of the following items, unless the item is registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or otherwise not subject to that registration requirement or unless the item is classified as a curio or relic by the United States Department of Justice: (A) an explosive weapon; (B) a machine gun; or (C) a short-barrel firearm;They are perfectly legal *if* they meet the federal NFA requirements.
I was thinking of that little nub on the back of the tire gauge. Clearly illegal.
Might as well since lots of folks are carrying nowadays. Maybe they could be weaned from pistols and go back to the weapons of olden days,
By your ridiculous standard, all baseball bats, tire irons, vehicles, bricks, steep cliffs, and everything else should be illegal. Just because Person A can find a way to harm someone using Object B, that does not mean that all humanity must be deprived of Object B.
They mean a sawed off shotgun.
“ALSO-—just use a side cutters & cut the valve stem.”
Unless it has been removed in the last few years, it is illegal to carry a pair of wire cutters in Texas. A law dating back to when the farmers and ranchers were at war with each other over grazing rights.
Those are mainly weapons of opportunity. Don’t worry, your slippery slope is safe, Sleep well in whatever fantasy world you come from.
You’re right, of course. But that brings up yet another question. Why are these things (Tire deflation devices) banned when the cops are using them? How many other of the banned weapons and devices are standard Law Enforcement equipment?
And how many other of the banned weapons and devices are things a couple of energetic 10 year olds could improvise in a weekend in their Dads’ basements?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.