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SewTexas wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:43 pm

apostate wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:32 pm Kitty Keychains in the news again.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2 ... illips-mom

When a Carrollton police officer arrived, he said he believed she was fleeing the scene of an accident — which Phillips denies — and though she passed a sobriety test, she was arrested for failing to yield and booked into Carrollton City Jail.

Only then did the police discover the little pink key chain in her purse.

That's when Phillips was told "possession of a prohibited weapon," a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to $4,000 in fines and a year in jail, would be added to her arrest record.

oh geez

Is it standard practice, to arrest someone on a failure to yield, traffic violation? And if she passed a field sobriety test, why was the officer, still concerned about her sobriety?
This sounds more like a case, of an officer, being angry, that she had gone into a business, rather than wait, in the heat, and traffic, for him to get there.

Since I doubt, that it is standard practice to arrest on a class c traffic violation, a good attorney, can get the UCW charge dismissed, since it was only discovered, as part of a search incident to arrest.

But these are the type of things, we need to push our State reps, to have repealed. Do they still believe, that people, are looking to start a "rumble" with brass knuckles, when they can carry a gun in their car, and anything up to and including, a Samarai sword, on their person at all times?

OlBill wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 3:12 pm

lonestar144 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 4:51 pm That keychain was made specifically as a weapon, like brass knuckles or dagger, not a keychain that "could" be used as one. While a dagger is legal, the resemblance of brass knuckles is not. If someone wants wants a similar item, just get a mini dagger and attach to keychain, purse or even carried in pocket.

https://www.dhgate.com/store/product/ne ... 49157.html

Or we could change the law.

All of these, and similar laws, do absolutely nothing to deter/prevent crime. All they are used for is an enhancement to another charge. All prohibitions, against inanament objects such as these, should be removed, just as the prohibitions, against certain types of knives, have been.
I have no use for brass knuckles, and probably would not carry, a kitty keychain, but I can see their use,as defensive tools, for those who, cannot carry guns, where they work.
These laws, for the most part were in response to the misuse, by a very small number of people, usually gang members, and were intended to provide prosecutors, a charge, to apply, when no actual crime, had been committed.