New York: Second Amendment Protects most Arms including Nunchakus

Ammoland ^ | 19 December, 2018 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

On 14 December 2018, a New York District judge, Pamela K. Chen, an Obama appointee, has struck down a ban on nunchakus, as unconstitutional.

Consider the timeline and history of this ban and its demise.

In 1974, in response to “Kung Fu” movies, New York banned the possession, manufacture, transportation, and transfer of Nunchakus. Nunchakus or “chuka sticks” were made into a prohibited weapon by statute.

The New York ban followed the process for weapons bans in the United States. The process has been this:

1. Demonize the weapon to be banned in the Media by citing a few anecdotes, not backed up by statistical evidence.
2. Push for a ban in the legislature, based on the media anecdotes, backed up with selective testimony by a few law enforcement officials.
3. Ignore protections on the right to keep and bear arms at the State and Federal level.  The opposition is unorganized. Support for a particular weapon (slung shot, machinegun, switchblade, gravity knife, sap, nunchakus, ballistic knife, stun gun) is weak. Media support for a ban is strong. The Media promotes the ban as “common sense”.
4. Include exceptions for law enforcement.
5. Pass the bill with accolades from the Media.

Twenty-nine years later, a New York lawyer, James M. Maloney, an amateur martial artist, was outraged by the idiocy and injustice of the law. The law did not allow him to teach his own sons, in the privacy of his own home, a martial art he had developed using nunchakus. Nunchakus are commonly used in martial arts training in 45 states. Maloney filed a lawsuit against New York on Second Amendment grounds.

[marktwain]

I expect the new AG in New York to appeal this decision. The logic is to good. It supports the Second Amendment too well.

[Catmom]

But can nuns still chuck them?

[Cincinnatus]

Interestingly, if you check the definition of nunchukas under New York law, it seemingly bans jump ropes as well.

[shelterguy]

Slingshots are illegal in New Jersey as well as numerous other places.

[bk1000]

It is illegal to tie two sticks together with a piece of rope. What county is this?

[lee martell]

This is the second Nunchuck related posting in the last five days. Maybe there’s a new movie out featuring this weapon.

[Ouderkirk]

Still can't buy a wrist rocket sling-shot for the same reasons. Just like this one.

Class E felony for possession of a toy.

[max americana]

many years ago, I went to a Dan Inosanto demonstration for arnis, as he is the true master for this martial arts, also as Dan inosanto is Filipino-American.

There was one unscripted part where he got the nunchakus and did a complete 2 minutes version in fast motion, almost non-stop. He told us it’s not a good weapon to bring around.

FYI, Inosanto was the guy in Game of Death where he battled with the nanchuks. And he’s the only student that Bruce has authorized to preach and teach jeet Kune Do, bruce lee’s martial arts.

[Boomer]

They are still illegal in AZ as far as I know.

[LouieFisk]

It’s hilarious, in a way - thinking they can rid the world of a couple of sticks and a wire.

[Snickering Hound]

[LouieFisk]

I never had a slingshot that I didn’t make myself. Was pretty much part and parcel of any boy worth his stuff back in the day.

[Gay State Conservative]

A year or two ago I saw billboard ads on the NYC Subway warning that it's a crime to modify a toy gun to make it look real and also to modify a real gun to make it look like a toy.

I can't recall if they said it was a crime only in NYC or in the entire State of New York.

[Celerity]

I’ve been with my quarter staff since I was 6. Routinely practiced and quite fast too.

I have a friend who had nunchuks. That bastard took my staff away from me everytime. I couldn’t get through him.

I could LARP every swordsman to his knees, but this guy was completely impenetrable.

[wally_bert]

I had a couple of those as a 70s kid.

[bankwalker]

I dare you to go on you tube and watch bruce Lee playing ping pong. I’m unable to post a link right now or I would.

[marktwain]

They are still illegal in AZ as far as I know.

Yes. Kelly Ward was ridiculed when she attempted to repeal that law.

I'd like to see her detractors eat their words. But they have no shame, ethics, or morals.

[Renegade]

Brass knuckles too!!

[coloradan]

That video entails CGI, i.e. is fake. I think it was an ad for something.

[Renegade]

Brass knuckles too!!