{"id":7713,"date":"2015-08-28T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T21:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=7713"},"modified":"2015-08-28T16:00:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T21:00:55","slug":"important-changes-to-texas-knife-laws-coming-sept-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/28\/important-changes-to-texas-knife-laws-coming-sept-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Changes to Texas Knife Laws Coming Sept. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/08\/texas1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7714\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/08\/texas1.jpg\" alt=\"Texas1\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>Gilbert, AZ<\/strong> -(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/\">AmmoLand.com<\/a>)<\/span><\/span>\u2013 Several Texas cities, including San Antonio and Corpus Christi, will see their restrictive knife laws voided as of <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">September 1st<\/span><\/span> when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=84R&amp;Bill=HB905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas House Bill 905<\/a> \u2014 Knife Rights\u2019 signature Knife Law Preemption bill \u2014 takes effect.<\/p>\n<p>The new law invalidates all municipal and county knife ordinances more restrictive than state law, creating uniform knife laws across Texas. The new law also ensues that Knife Rights\u2019 repeal of the state\u2019s ban on switchblade (automatic) knives that was passed in 2013 will now have effect throughout the state.<\/p>\n<p>The two Texas cities that made Knife Rights\u2019 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kniferights.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 Worst Anti-Knife Cities in America<\/a>\u201d list for 2014, San Antonio at number four and Corpus Christi at number nine, will be taken off that list on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">September 1<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Knife Rights Chairman Doug Ritter said, <em>\u201cRemoving two of the nation\u2019s worst anti-knife cities from our list in a single act is an example of what can be done when we all work together towards greater freedom in America.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Knife Rights has sent letters notifying elected officials, prosecutors and law enforcement in ten cities, towns and counties of the change to the Texas Local Government Code. In addition to San Antonio and Corpus Christi, letters were sent to Dallas County, Houston, Magnolia, Melissa, Odessa, Richland Hills, Shenandoah and Texarkana, all of which have now-voided knife restrictions on the books. Knife Rights volunteers continue to comb through municipal and county codes, searching for any other jurisdictions that should be notified of their now-voided ordinances.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2015\/08\/important-change-to-texas-knife-laws-is-coming-sept-1\/?utm_source=Ammoland+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=8d26c31948-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_6f6fac3eaa-8d26c31948-20724777#axzz3k3hK5jRj\">Ammo-Land<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Gilbert, AZ -(AmmoLand.com)\u2013 Several Texas cities, including San Antonio and Corpus Christi, will see their restrictive knife laws voided as of September 1st when Texas House Bill 905 \u2014 Knife Rights\u2019 signature Knife Law Preemption bill \u2014 takes effect. The new law invalidates all municipal and county knife ordinances more restrictive than state law,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1215,74,1635],"tags":[2030,535,2031,2032,2033],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}