Sword Canes Legal in Indiana?

[FordMan08]

Just curious.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

it was a joke and he was thinking of knife law in Texas i guess(he lived there for six years)

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[Kirk Freeman]

1. Indiana has no statute as to sword canes as law as one does not do silly things with it (misuse it, steal one, or carry one in a prohibited area, e.g. courthouse or jail).

2. Indiana, unlike Tejas, has no statute as to the length of knives.* Indiana is not subject to Texas law or I'd have to start wearing string ties, elf boots and a big silly hat.

*Note that some counties have ordinances as to length of blades when carrying knives into courthouses that could impact your choice of carry knife.

 

[Django]

They sold them at Grindstone Cutlery last I was there.
Legal to sell = legal to possess = legal to carry.
I'm sure a passing LEO might have some questions for the fellow with a sword cane.

 

[paddling_man]

Good luck finding one that isn't a Pakistani piece of garbage. However, owning/carrying one is legal in this state.

For further bad ideas in edged defense, I present the Belt Sword.

http://www.beltswords.com/

 

[Wabatuckian]

They used to be illegal; the law was repealed.

Blade length of a carried knife used to be 6"; likewise, that was repealed.

It used to be illegal to carry a firearm into a bar. Now, we can.

I pretty much memorized the 1996 criminal code. When I got to college in '98-'99 and got my new book, I found that most of what I'd memorized had been repealed.

This is where a lot of confusion comes in.

Josh <><

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Josh, these laws you reference, do you have the citations handy?

 

[CarmelHP]

Josh, these laws you reference, do you have the citations handy?

I looked at the legislative histories and nothing has been repealed since 1995 that I could find. Josh, what exactly are you referring to? You don't mean Texas, do you?

 

[dburkhead]

you can not carry a blade of over 4 inches and even if it were legal you would have to have a cc permit

Cite code please.

For one thing, Indiana does not have "cc permits".

 

[dburkhead]

ltch has nothing to do with knifes and yes you cannot carry a blade over 4 inches if you can prove other wise send me a link to the website

Exactly backwards. In the absence of a law prohibiting it, it is legal. So what's the law prohibiting it.

To get you started, here's a link to the entire "weapons and instruments of violence" section of the Indiana code:

Indiana Code TITLE 35, Article 47 Table of Contents

Cite code please.

 

[dburkhead]

an ltch has nothing to do with knifes and there is a cc permit it covers 48 states

Cite please.

 

[dburkhead]

And I see all of my questions have been answered. My bad.

 

[Wabatuckian]

Eh, it might have been the '94 version.

It was whatever was online at the time, folks.

I don't have a reference of repealed laws; I've looked for one hoping to find one in the past and can't.

 

[CarmelHP]

Eh, it might have been the '94 version.

It was whatever was online at the time, folks.

I don't have a reference of repealed laws; I've looked for one hoping to find one in the past and can't.

Very little was online in '94* though I think IU-B Law may have had state statutes on line at the time. If you know any of the specific citations I can find the old statutes, otherwise it's too much to slog through.




*Internet history trivia: I put a gun webpage on an now gone IU-B server in '94 and it was listed as one of the first 5000 pages on the WWW. I also had an Indiana gunowners majordomo list which is how we did this back in the old days.