Brass knuckles, other self-defense items legal in Texas starting Sept. 1

fox 4 ^ | Aug. 28, 2019 | staff

[bgill]

Self-defense items, including brass knuckles and hard plastic kitty keychains, will be legal for Texans to carry starting September 1.

House Bill 446, which overturns the ban on brass knuckles, self-defense keychains, and clubs, was signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in May. It passed unanimously in both the House and the Senate.

It removed "knuckles" and "clubs" from a group of weapons banned by a previous law that was passed in 1918.

[ichabod1]

Even funnier if, like in Texas, it is legal to purchase all of those things, but not legal to carry them, until now.

[Mr Rogers]

Just checked...the law MAY have been changed in Arizona since I last looked (pre-2010). Cannot find anything saying saps are illegal anymore. But...one of those things where an old guy (or my equally old wife) isn’t very likely to be challenged on for just carrying. It looks like expandable batons ARE legal.

But yeah...to a certain extent, conceal means conceal. People who wear bifocals and who try to walk away from problems aren’t likely to be targets of Arizona cops. I don’t know about NY or NJ, but Lord willing, I’ll never cross the Mississippi again. Heck, I avoid Phoenix like the plague too!

[TMN78247]

One of the MOST effective NON-LETHAL close quarter weapons for us senior citizens is an ANGOLA Prison “Bull’s walking cane”.

That is a standard walking cane that has been “reinforced” with a 6-10 inch piece of copper or brass tubing at the bottom that will barely slide over the cane & is then secured to the cane with 2 or more brass screws or nails.
(An “Angola cane” will “take the legs out from under” an attacker with one swipe or jab to the shins/knees & will leave the attacker moaning/weeping/writhing in agony on the ground, so that the defender can walk calmly away & be lost in the crowd.)

Even TSA won’t take a walking cane away from an elderly person.

Yours, TMN78247

[smokingfrog]

Check out the Kimber PepperBlaster.

[Tudorfly]

Thanks for the ping. God bless you and your family.

[luvie]

I will! Thanks.

[luvie]

Thank you. God bless yours, too.

[matthew fuller]

"Since we have both open and concealed carry, why does it matter?"

I have a CHL, but I also would like to have my choice of having something maybe less lethal, for instance while dog walking and carrying a piece of rebar for aggressive dogs with my Ruger, which would not go over very well on the bunny trail. I think that carrying a "club" is currently illegal.