Pocket knifes & LEOs?

Cope said

Dose it count that i know what a P38 is with out using Google.

When i was a kid box cutters, rock knifes were know as "a buck fifdy".

As in it will take at least 150 stitches to fix that.

And yes we do still have county knife laws.

Oakland Ca. Over 2 inch blade and you are screwed.
Where i live, and being an adult, i dont for see it being an issue.

I DO ALWAYS mention to the LEO that I am carrying a knife and ask if they would like me to remove it. (When im stopped in my car.)
So that is where the issue of a questionable knife comes in....

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Admitting to a misdemeanor sounds unwise. It may be possible to gauge LEO interest in prosecuting knife crimes in small communities, but the thing with cops is they're just people. Some will let stuff slide, others will ticket or arrest for anything they can. Sometimes it can depend on how their day is going so far, or how it went the day before.

Generally speaking, most won't care if you're not engaged in other shenanigans. If you're being stopped for rolling a stop sign then you're not likely to get shackled for having 1/8" too much steel. But if you're involved in any kind of physical altercation it can have life changing consequences - even if you were truly defending your life with it, an illegal knife is still going to be an aggravating factor in an assault capacity. Even if it is and remains in your pocket the whole time too!
Laws can be asinine, and the application of them can be worse and so the best defense is opting out of the potential for such encounters.

Better to be tried by 12, they say.. But even a successful self defense situation can bankrupt you. Get decent self defense insurance if you ever plan to use any kind of weapon in a defensive capacity and then ensure that there's nothing which can prevent you from cashing in if your knife happens to be the wrong shape..

Of course always know the laws and even better some case history any time you're carrying a "weapon".