Posted on 05/15/2015 10:00:47 AM PDT by marktwain
Texas Knife Law Preemption Bill Passes House Print E-mail ShareThis
May 5, 2015: Knife Rights' Texas Knife Law Preemption bill, HB 905, passed the House on the consent calendar 145-0. HB 905 would rid Texas of its patchwork of local knife laws more strict than state law. It now moves to the Senate.
Preemption repeals and prevents local ordinances more restrictive than state law which only serve to confuse or entrap law-abiding citizens traveling within or through the state. Preemption ensures citizens can expect consistent enforcement of state knife laws everywhere in the state.
Two Texas cities made Knife Rights' 10 Worst Anti-Knife Cities in America list for 2014, San Antonio at number four and Corpus Christi at number nine. San Antonio prohibits carry of all locking-blade folding knives except on the job. There's no local restriction on fixed blade knives. In Corpus Christi it is illegal to carry any fixed blade knife or a folder with a blade longer than 3-inches except when actually in use on the job. If HB 905 passes, it will repeal these irrational restrictions.
“an Antonio prohibits carry of all locking-blade folding knives except on the job”
Wow, lucky I have not been arrest over the last 20 years carrying a knife on my jeans pocket...
You can have a long knife “on the job” but you cannot “take it to work” or “take it home” or “keep it in your toolbox” or “we’ll find a way to arrest you if we want.”
I was told about the law in San Antonio when I move to Texas 30+ years ago.
I asked a life long Texan why? He replied it was because that is what all the Mexicans carried.
I guess they figured out that “Mexicans” can vote.
Looks like I need to send some letters.
/johnny
Well, things change, and people forget. Over 40 years ago, disembowelings and stabbings weren’t uncommon in a south Texas city. A friend whose family was in the oil business was disemboweled during a high school football game. Tourist towns don’t like to advertise crime problems.
The laws against carrying knives with blades larger than 5 1/2 inches were already in effect at that time.
Are you suggesting that laws against carrying knives reduced crime?
Don’t get me started. I asked a San Antonio cop about this when I heard about it, and the response was, “Oh, we just got that passed so we could jack up the gangbangers - but we wouldn’t enforce it against YOU...”
May have been born at night, but it wasn’t LAST night...
Your analysis of the reality is spot on. I find such laws dangerous. As you do too, apparently.
This new law will trump those city laws that outlaw these switch blade knives - it will be legal to carry those knives in those cities after this bill passes and becomes law.
Knives sharp on both sides will still be illegal - knives like daggers, sharp on both sides. I don’t know if the length of the knife applies or if its any length illegal. You can still have these knives if going to hunt with them and it’s legal to have them at home. I have a very long dagger, more like a sword, at my house. That is legal in Texas but not so in numerous states.
/johnny
Is there a problem with that?
/johnny
Here’s one of the moves used by sadistic crooks there during the ‘60s. They tried to be as anonymous and initially friendly as possible before doing this to strangers, or use smaller children to antagonize the victim first.
Others would distract or help hold the victim, while one quickly twisted the victim’s wrist behind his back, using the other hand with the knife (from behind) to rip through the abdominal lining, spilling guts. Then, they’d run. That was with a short knife during the ‘60s, and that was only one technique.
As you probably already know, more thugs’ knife fighting tactics are more developed since the ‘70s. Twin knives are more common. There are quite a few more effective anatomical targets to hit more quickly with newer, stronger knives before running (top of skull, groin area between genitals and rectum, armpits, throats, eyes and more). They practice lunging in and out over long distances.
Strange, remembering that sort of thing. I’m getting old. The more security-experienced and wiser among older folks use more varied and complex tactics for self-defense.
Yes. The most effective knife attacks are surprises, where the victim never sees the knife before they are stabbed or cut.
Great, I hope it passes their Senate and Gov. Abbot (a man for whom my respect has been raised greatly since his election) signs it.
What a stupid law, and an infringement of the right to keep and bear arms.
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