PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Some people and uses are exempt from the switchblade rules. Those exemptions cover: transport companies shipping switchblades in the normal course of business; making, selling, moving, or importing switchblades under a contract with the Armed Forces; the Armed Forces or their members doing their jobs; a person who has only one arm carrying a switchblade with a blade three inches or less; and knives that have a spring or similar part that keeps the blade closed and that must be pushed on the blade by hand, wrist, or arm to open.

Title 15, §1244

Commerce and Trade, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

section 1242 and 1243 of this title shall not apply to—

(1)any common carrier or contract carrier, with respect to any switchblade knife shipped, transported, or delivered for shipment in interstate commerce in the ordinary course of business;

(2)the manufacture, sale, transportation, distribution, possession, or introduction into interstate commerce, of switchblade knives pursuant to contract with the Armed Forces;

(3)the Armed Forces or any member or employee thereof acting in the performance of his duty;

(4)the possession, and transportation upon his person, of any switchblade knife with a blade three inches or less in length by any individual who has only one arm; or

(5)a knife that contains a spring, detent, or other mechanism designed to create a bias toward closure of the blade and that requires exertion applied to the blade by hand, wrist, or arm to overcome the bias toward closure to assist in opening the knife.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2009—Par. (5). Pub. L. 111–83 added par. (5).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective on the sixtieth day after Aug. 12, 1958, see section 6 of Pub. L. 85–623, set out as a note under section 1241 of this title.

§1244 Exceptions