About the Book - Knife Laws of the Fifty States

Ever tried to figure out if your every day carry knife is legal to carry in a particular state or city? Or what modes of carry, i.e., open or concealed, are permissible under the law? Or whether the state or city / town / county you're in, or going to be visiting, has any blade length restrictions? Or if there are any off-lmits locations for carry, and if so, where?

Knife Laws of the Fifty States -- A Guide for the Law-Abiding Traveler answers these questions and helps you stay within the law!

Over 200 pages of information

Covers the knife-carry laws of all fifty states, and the District of Columbia

Covers open and concealed carry, blade length restrictions, and more

Covers folders and fixed blades, including dirks, daggers, and stilettos

Covers automatic knives, and balisongs

Includes summaries of municipal ordinances for most major cities, including New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Atlanta, Las Vegas and many others!

Sure, you can (in most cases) look up the statutes for the state you're interested in. You can search through the statutes and try to figure out the statutory law governing knife carry. But what about the state's case law, the body of appellate judicial opinions that interpret those statutes and which have binding legal effect in their respective jurisdictions? Without an understanding of such case law, you may very well get an incomplete, and inaccurate, picture of the legal environment for knife carry in that state! Or how about city, town, or county knife ordinances and the restrictions or prohibitions they impose? How do you go about finding and figuring out what those are?

Knife Laws of the Fifty States provides an easy-to-read summary chart for each state for folding knives, fixed blades, dirks, daggers, stilletos, automatics, and balisongs, along with their open and concealed carry status under state law. Notes on certain restrictions and prohibitions are also included.

A dissussion of each state's knife-related law, including a summary of key off-limits locations, is included, as are excerpts of selected statutes, selected case law citations and capsule summaries of case law decisions.

In addition, while a particular state's law may not impose, for example, a statutory blade length restriction, in many cases cities and towns in that same state have enacted their own blade-length restrictions or even bans on possession or carry of certain types of knives, resulting in more restrictive knife regulation in those municipalities. A knowledge of of city / town / county ordinances and regulations is thus essential to understanding the true legal environment for knife carry in a particular state. As such, Knife Laws of the Fifty States includes summaries of the knife-related ordinances and regulations for major cities (and many smaller ones) in each state to round out your understanding of that state's knife laws.

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