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  • Important Knife Reform Bottled up by Texas Senate State Affairs Committee (HB 956)

    05/25/2021 3:38:27 AM PDT · by marktwain · 20 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | 22 May, 2021 | Dean Weingarten
    U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Why are Texas Senate Republicans slowing a bill supported by most House Democrats and all House Republicans?In 2017, the Texas legislature passed a sweeping knife reform bill. It removed the criminal penalties for carrying most knives in Texas. Because of a tragic and illegal knife attack on a college campus, at the last minute, amendments were added to the bill to make the possession of knives with a blade over 5.5 inches illegal in a small number of locations.This meant numerous people were kept at risk of arrest for using ordinary implements of the job, such as gardeners...