Some things are destined to be revisited. In the last issue of Knives Illustrated we covered Knife Rights presenting Texas Governor Greg Abbott with a custom Jason Fry Texas Heritage bowie to celebrate last year’s enactment of HB 1935. That bill eliminated from Texas statute the prohibition against carrying “illegal knives,” including throwing knives, daggers, dirks, stilettos, poniards, swords, spears and most notably, bowie knives—as well as blades longer than 5.5 inches—except in a few locations, including schools. Here’s the latest.
Knife Rights passed that bill with overwhelming votes despite a fatal stabbing on the University of Texas campus, just blocks from the State House, shortly before the vote. The mother, whose son was tragically murdered, is now calling for the reinstatement of that same knife…