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CHAPTER 581 AN ACT PROHIBITING THE POSSESSION, MANUFACTURE OR SALE OF BALLISTIC KNIVES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 10 of chapter 269 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word "dagger,", in line 54, as appearing in the 1984 Official Edition, the words:- or a device or case which enables a knife with a locking blade to be drawn at a locked position, any ballistic knife, or any knife with a detachable blade capable of being propelled by any mechanism,.

SECTION 2. Section 12 of said chapter 269, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after the word "inches", in line 5, the words:- or a device or case which enables a knife with a locking blade to be drawn at a locked position, any ballistic knife, or any knife with a detachable blade capable of being propelled by any mechanism.

Approved December 9, 1986.