If it has a sharpened swedge I am at risk bringing it anywhere but on my own property here in Texas. A sharpened swedge would reclassify it from a hunting/fishing/sporting tool to a dagger under Texas knife law and could have legal consequences for me or loss of the knife depending on how aggressive the law enforcement officer wanted to be.
I would respectfully request that the swedge NOT be sharpened.
<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> I thought everything was legal in Texas. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
No, Texas has some bizarre edged weapon laws. Bowie knives > 5.5" are illegal for example. Given the history of that knife type in this state you would have different expectations. I suspect it is a very old law from the day when a lot of carnage was done with Bowie knives.
There is no political capital in championing revised knife laws so there we sit.
