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New site? Maybe some day.
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Yea, so I've started up a little knife collection and find MA's knife law horrible. You can't even have a double edged blade? lol wat. I remember hearing that both Worcester and Boston have their own laws? Like you can't have a blade more than 2'' ? LOL
TITLE I. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.
CHAPTER 269. CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC PEACE.
Chapter 269: Section 10. Carrying dangerous weapons...
(b) Whoever, except as provided by law, carries on his
person, or carries on his person or under his control
in a vehicle, any stiletto, dagger or a device or case
which enables a knife with a locking blade to be drawn
at a locked position, any ballistic knife, or any knife
with a detachable blade capable of being propelled by any
mechanism, dirk knife, any knife having a double-edged blade,
or a switch knife, or any knife having an automatic spring
release device by which the blade is released from the
handle, having a blade of over one and one-half inches,
or a slung shot, blowgun, blackjack, metallic knuckles
or knuckles of any substance which could be put to the
same use with the same or similar effect as metallic
knuckles, nunchaku, zoobow, also known as klackers or
kung fu sticks, or any similar weapon consisting of two
sticks of wood, plastic or metal connected at one end by a
length of rope, chain, wire or leather, a shuriken or any
similar pointed starlike object intended to injure a person
when thrown, or any armband, made with leather which has
metallic spikes, points or studs or any similar device made
from any other substance or a cestus or similar material
weighted with metal or other substance and worn on the hand,
or a manrikigusari or similar length of chain having weighted
ends; or whoever, when arrested upon a warrant for an alleged
crime, or when arrested while committing a breach or disturbance
of the public peace, is armed with or has on his person, or has
on his person or under his control in a vehicle, a billy or
other dangerous weapon other than those herein mentioned and
those mentioned in paragraph (a), shall be punished by
imprisonment for not less than two and one-half years nor more
than five years in the state prison, or for not less than six
months nor more than two and one-half years in a jail or house
of correction, except that, if the court finds that the defendant
has not been previously convicted of a felony, he may be punished
by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for
not more than two and one-half years in a jail or house of correction. |
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Yea, remember when butterfly knives were banned? |
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oh I see you've played knifey spoony before. |
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Sorry to rub it in, but switchblades are now legal in NH.
Don't worry -- the police will protect all of you always. |
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Tazers and mace are illegal as well. Found that out after buying some off ebay in college. It's all a ploy to con the public into taking self-defense classes, and I will have no part in that. |
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The knife laws are stupid. Is it really only a 2 inch blade? I thought it was longer for some reason. |
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*cue beavis and butthead laugh* |
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Sorry to rub it in, but switchblades are now legal in NH.
Don't worry -- the police will protect all of you always. |
Impossibroo! |
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I had to go find this out now lol so I don't think Mass has any law on length but like you said local cities can make their own. |
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zoobros what is a zoobow? |
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Acording to the law I pasted in OP is 1.5 inches.
Whats the point of having a 1.5 inch knife? |
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May as well carry a fork around |
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I don't think I've ever even seen a knife that was only 1.5" that's gotta be wrong. I bought a knife that's at least 3" from the army navy store in Salem MA a few months ago. |
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You can buy 8 inch knives at places. I think its like shrooms. You can buy and have spores, but you cant carry mushrooms. In otherwords, you can buy a knife, but cant carry them?
Wait, HORRIBLE ANALOGY |
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I can go to Walmart and buy a 6 inch survival knife, yet cant have it on me when I'm walking down the street?
Am I not understanding this law? |
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Taken from some knife forum:
" I am a Massachusetts resident. You can possess any knife but not carry in public any autos, ballistic knives, daggers, stilettos or dirks, which means any double-edge knife. This feature of the law protects collectors, but it does not specify how a collector is to legally carry his/her new purchase to their home, since public carry is a felony. Boston, Lawrence, Cambridge, Revere, Lynn, Salem and Beverly have 2.5" blade limit for knives carried in public. These are local ordinances, punishable by arrest and $300 fine. Worcester also has a blade limit, 3" if I recall correctly. Holders of a Massachusetts Class A licenses to carry firearms (even if restricted to hunting and target shooting) are exempt. For what its worth, I EDC a 4" lock-blade folder at all times. I simply removed the clip and carry it completely concealed. I have spent a lot of time in the above anti-knife jurisdictions and never had a problem. Dress well, practice good concealment and keep a low profile. You should be fine." |
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Sounds about right for Massachusetts... |
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LOL @ the law not specifying how one is to bring a knife home after purchase. |
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Massachusetts' over-the-top liberalism is eating itself alive. The laws don't even make sense anymore (ie, how are you supposed to get your knife home).
Supposedly if you travel through MA with a firearm (even a long gun in a locked case) you are supposed to notify the state police about the day you'll be travelling, where you're going, etc. I have decided that law is unconstitutional and choose to ignore it. |
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Haha, one of my neighbors is having full-blown target practice right now. Living in the woods rules. |
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^^ lol luckily I live right on the border of NH so I can actually shoot in my backyard. |
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LOL @ the law not specifying how one is to bring a knife home after purchase. |
Go to the store, make a purchase, have them ship it to your house I guess? Do all knife sales online? I dunno. |
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This law was in place before the internet, I believe. But still, quite the loophole. |
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because people could buy many knives and throw them at one time at people causing another tragic mass murder |
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