Is this knife legal to carry in Texas?

[DAVIDSDIVAD]

I do now

 

[JohnKSa]

A Bowie knife is a weapon with a single edge which has been clipped in such a way that provides for a stabbing point at the tip of the blade.

Just want to clarify that this is absolutely NOT a legal definition under TX law. In fact, there is no legal definition of a Bowie knife in TX law.

 

[The Highlander]

The part about a Bowie knife surprised me too. I'm curious if they listed it due to some designs having a sharpened upper clip. Not like it's a big deal. How many 5.5 blades are bowies?

Though it would be nice to be allowed a sharpened upper edge.

 

[Nightrunner]

Just want to clarify that this is absolutely NOT a legal definition under TX law. In fact, there is no legal definition of a Bowie knife in TX law.

That's true. It would be nice if when something is banned by law, there were a precise description of what it is the law is intending to ban. Exactly what the "Bowie" in "Bowie knife" means is one of these cases when we're left to guess what that intent was.

 

[Black Toe Knives]

I was reading in Blade that a Texas man was arrested for carrying a assisted open Kershaw. The Texas supreme court denied his appeal.
Texas said it was a Switch blade. Assisted open knives are not switchblades under the law but Texas think so. So I think it is what ever they want it to be.

 

[Black Toe Knives]

oops Never mind

 

[KBT1911]

I have been arrested for carrying a butterfly knife in Texas so I wouldn't carry any of the above mentioned stuff unless you are sure you are in the statutory right to do so.

It was a year of deferred adjudication for a stupid knife.

I don't think the one in your pic would be illegal, though.

I'm another of those who think its silly that I can carry a .45 full of hollow points but can't carry a knife or stick. It is What it is.