Waaaay back when I was in college I went and talked to the local police about blade laws for our local SCA group.
Even they were confused about what the tangle of statuates meant as AR had a law on the books banning the sale or possession of swords---it used to include bowies as well but Lile got that part changed. Yet swords were being sold at every fleamarket. It dated to the reconstruction BTW.
On the other hand if you were going a certain number of miles out of your daily routine you were allowed to carry a large knife "against the dangers of the road".
On the gripping hand the concealed deadly weapon law was so loose that my physics textbook in my backpack could qualify as a concealed deadly weapon and woe to the business man with a pencil in his inside coat pocket!
So what I took from all this was "sure I might be right; but was I willing to spend *thousands* of dollars proving it! You still have to pay even if they find in your favour.
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Thomas
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