After posting my original comment, I realized that the hammers in my collection consist of a 16” claw hammer with a fiberglass handle and a 40oz dead-blow hammer which is all plastic. Holy crap, I own assault tools!
Uh-oh. I have a plastic handled claw hammer, several wooden handled ones, several sledge hammers, ball-peen hammers plus some specialty hammers (tack, Warrington hammer, dead blow). It’s a hammer cache! Cut nails, roofing nails, headless brads, wire nails in several different sizes, hand-forged ‘rose-head’ nails, and even a leather ‘holster’. Great googly moogly, who needs so many hammers and nails?
I hope my vintage hammers get grandfathered in. I have one from the 1880s and another from even earlier, circa 1850. All kept, unlocked, within easy reach of any passing child (though I have no children).
I’m special. My hammer went through the side of one of those wall mart metal storage sheds.
It’s ‘armor piercing’ ;)
My son has a plastic hammer with a hollow striking head.
Will that be illegal as well?