Posted February 7, 2018 4:30 pm by Comments

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

Knife Rights Celebrates Texas Knife Reform with Bowie Presentations
Seated in front of a portrait of Sam Houston, leader of the Texas Revolution, Texas Governor Greg Abbott holding his Texas Heritage Bowie with (L-R) Rep. John Frullo (primary bill sponsor), Doug Ritter, Jason Fry (Bowie maker) and Todd Rathner.

USA -(Ammoland.com)- Doug Ritter, Knife Rights Chairman, and Todd Rather, Knife Rights’ Director of Legislative Affairs, were in Austin, Texas, this week to celebrate last year’s enactment of HB 1935.

That bill eliminated from Texas statute the prohibition against carrying “illegal knives,” including throwing knives, daggers, dirks, stilettos, poniards, swords, spears and most notably, Bowie knives, as well as blades over 5.5 inches except in a few locations.

The celebration was originally scheduled to be held last September at The Alamo, but tragically, Hurricane Harvey intervened.

Knife Rights were honored to hold a presentation ceremony in the House of Representatives Chamber at the Texas Capitol. It only seemed appropriate to do the presentation under the historic portrait of Jim Bowie, hero of the Alamo, whose eponymous knife was finally made legal to carry in Texas by the enactment of HB 1935.

Rep. John Frullo, primary bill sponsor, was presented with a specially engraved Bowie donated by Bear and Son Cutlery. …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand

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