Texas Legalizes Brass Knuckles, Similar Items

By Tom Knighton

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If you’re too young to purchase a handgun, but you still want to be able to defend yourself, your choices are limited. Severely limited. For women, especially, this is a real problem. Women tend to lack the upper body strength to fend off someone like a potential rapist, so they need tools to help even the odds.

When guns aren’t an option, you need something else. Things that help increase how hard a woman can hit could be extremely useful in such a circumstance.

Unfortunately, many states restrict such weapons. Nevermind that criminals still get them or worse despite those regulations. That never entered into the legislator’s minds.

Well, it has. At least, it has in Texas where the state legalized those tools.

Gov. Gregg Abbott signed House Bill 446 over the Memorial Day weekend, making it lawful to carry things like brass knuckles, wild kat keychains and clubs for self-defense.

State Rep. Joe Moody filed the legislation, saying too many people were being charged with a crime for owning the self-defense tool, the Texas Standard reported.

“We recently also lifted the prohibition on switchblades,” Moody said. “We aren’t living in ‘West Side Story.’ Maybe at one point …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms