Because some dipshit said "There aught to be a law" and some other dipshits passed such a law.

while on this subject... anyone know of a weighted ball on a chain, as a keychain.  a gun store i used to frequent had them for sale as 'tactical monkey balls'.

nvm

Google monkey fist.



 

my google fu is weak today, thanks.

Probably because one good blow to the head with one and it would be coloring books for X-Mas from now on.

But wouldn't you rather disable Safesearch and google "tactical monkey balls"?

Someone thought they were scary. You have the right to live free from things that are scary or things you don't like.

By that reasoning a hammer should be banned as well.  



 

Because they're very effective and concealable I guess.

I remember when cops carried them all the time. Didn't uniform pants have a special pocket for them?

I can carry any handgun I want but I can't carry some of my knives or even a piece of weighted leather.

As the switch blade was the assualt weapon of the 1950s

The blackjack was the assualt weapon of the 1930s


Oh no, the horror

I own a "Pre Ban Blackjack".....................Grand Ma gave it to me. My grandfather carried it during the 30's in Chicago. It's a lead ball on a spring handwrapped in leather. Might have some of Al capone's crews DNA on it.....

I don't think are illegal everywhere.

My grandfather was a longshoreman and always carried one on the docks. He had some nice ones, I wish I had gotten a hold of them.

Just like the Russians to use illegal Blackjacks.

Yep that pocket is still refered to as the Sap pocket on the back of the right leg.

My dad still has a pair that he carried one of on the county PD for years and years. I think Kentucky CCW permit actually covers blackjacks if I remember right.

You get one with almost every new gun purchase.



Loop it around your wrist so the lock sits in the palm of your hand.

Gives "Slap the shit out of someone" a whole new meaning and no one is going to question you carrying it.

yes, but defintitely lol'd!

Some uniform pants did have "sap pockets" built in; OK, but wasn't my favorite mode of carry.  I usually carried a sap in a back pocket or stuck in my belt.

Depends on who Fat Tony(or No Nose Louie) was trying to shake down...

Try "monkey nutz"
They have quite a few options and colors available.

"reasoning".



You're a funny guy Monroe, you should be in stand-up

Not a good option IMO. You better have a damn good articulable reason for cracking somebody upside the head with a weighted object as that can easily result in death or grave injury, especially if you don't know what you're doing.

Link?

I now have that term in my Google Search History and nothing but a new set of "WTF does he search Google for" ads to show for it.

Unlike the way they are portrayed in the movies, where the scrappy PI gets sapped and wakes up just a bit later with a bit of a headache, a blackjack has a very good chance of being lethal. It takes a lot of skill to hit someone just right and not cause a broken skull or subdural hematoma.

Duh they are called "BLACK jacks"

Wouldn't want to offend anyone......

This slapjack is around 40 years old. Dad carried it as a LEO and I used it afterwards till banned in prisons. It works.

I think average joes should be able to carry expendable batons too.





I want to go Musashi with two batons.

What are these "Blackjacks" you speak of?

I carry a door knocker.  

Because YOU are of the Peasant Class..........and the Ruling Class has decided that you must NOT possess one.

Heres some NUTZ

Would a big ball bearing wrapped up in bicyle tire inner tubes be considered a homemade blackjack?

As a kid, I might have seen one of those?

That's a friggin' blackjack isn't it??!!

Sorry folks, parks closed.  Monkey out front should have told ya.

That's not a weapon, it's a government mandated safety device.

Might want to check what is considered a concealed weapon in your state's statutes.

Should be, but is a felony in California.



 

Here's Michigan's statute:

750.224 Weapons; manufacture, sale, or possession as felony; violation as felony; penalty; exceptions; "muffler" or "silencer" defined.
Sec. 224.

(1) A person shall not manufacture, sell, offer for sale, or possess any of the following:

(a) A machine gun or firearm that shoots or is designed to shoot automatically more than 1 shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.

(b) A muffler or silencer.

(c) A bomb or bombshell.

(d) A blackjack, slungshot, billy, metallic knuckles, sand club, sand bag, or bludgeon.

(e) A device, weapon, cartridge, container, or contrivance designed to render a person temporarily or permanently disabled by the ejection, release, or emission of a gas or other substance.

(2) A person who violates subsection (1) is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or a fine of not more than $2,500.00, or both.

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to any of the following:

(a) A self-defense spray or foam device as defined in section 224d.

(b) A person manufacturing firearms, explosives, or munitions of war by virtue of a contract with a department of the government of the United States.

(c) A person licensed by the secretary of the treasury of the United States or the secretary's delegate to manufacture, sell, or possess a machine gun, or a device, weapon, cartridge, container, or contrivance described in subsection (1).

(4) As used in this chapter, "muffler" or "silencer" means 1 or more of the following:

(a) A device for muffling, silencing, or deadening the report of a firearm.

(b) A combination of parts, designed or redesigned, and intended for use in assembling or fabricating a muffler or silencer.

(c) A part, designed or redesigned, and intended only for use in assembling or fabricating a muffler or silencer.



History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;–– CL 1948, 750.224 ;–– Am. 1959, Act 175, Eff. Mar. 19, 1960 ;–– Am. 1978, Act 564, Imd. Eff. Dec. 29, 1978 ;–– Am. 1980, Act 346, Eff. Mar. 31, 1981 ;–– Am. 1990, Act 321, Eff. Mar. 28, 1991 ;–– Am. 1991, Act 33, Imd. Eff. June 10, 1991 ;–– Am. 2006, Act 401, Eff. Dec. 28, 2006
Constitutionality: The Michigan supreme court held that the statute was not unconstitutionally vague as applied to the defendant in People v Lynch, 410 Mich 343; 301 NW2d 796 (1981).
Former Law: See section 3 of Act 372 of 1927, being CL 1929, § 16751; and Act 206 of 1929.

OP, why didn't you just pistol whip em with that hogleg like old Gus did in Lonesome Dove?  

The sound of "thwap" is sometimes more appealing than the sound of "whack".  

Uh.......so I've been told........maybe OP has been told the same thing?

I knew one of the members would find a way..............

I carry a sock with a roll of quarters in it. I be homie da clownin!

go to the EE

These are great!

Possessing and carrying are different things.