Newsweek By Dan Cancian On 5/29/19
Texas legalized carrying self-defense items such as brass knuckles and clubs in a new bill just passed.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed off House Bill 446 over the weekend, paving the way for it to come into effect from September 1.
The bill, tabled by Rep. Joe Moody (D-El Paso) makes it legal to carry brass knuckles, so-called "Wild Kat" keychains and other self-defense items in public.
On 9 April, the Texas House of Representatives passed the bill with a 147-0 vote—one representative abstained and two were absent—before it was then passed unanimously by the Senate with a 31-0 vote on May 15.
Openly carrying rifles and handguns in Texas is legal and in 2017 lawmakers revoked a ban on carrying knives in public that had stood in place for 145 years. Brass knuckles, however, remained illegal, and owning self-defense items such as pronged keychains was considered a class A misdemeanor.
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