I have a very similar pair of Sai. Probably my favorite kobudo practice.
Nunchaku were legal where I studied (New Hampshire), but doubt I can bring them to MA or NY 😂
Tournaments in NY required foam nunchucks if I remember correctly
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I love how Sai feel & move!
The crazy thing is it's ok to sell Sai or bring to Canada, just nunchucks (there were some incidents after Bruce Lee movies)
Nunchucks are illegal in Arizona too…and this is in a state where I lawfully can go to the store, buy as many guns as I’d like, hide one in my pants and proudly wear the other on my hip and go to a bar…
That's absolutely wild. Sai are ok, knives are ok, other stick instruments are ok, machete too (but they take your name down), but no rope between two sticks 🤣
Never mind that you'll likely hit yourself if you're a noob
Sometimes I wonder if it’s more about lawsuits than actual danger level 😂
The legal standard for granting the government permission to remove the right to keep and bear arms across the board is for weapons that are dangerous AND unusual.
Few own nun-chucks, hence it’s not actually illegal to ban them.
Weapons commonly possessed for lawful purposes may NOT be banned.
But of course everyone pretends they don’t know this standard when passing laws and hence there are always lots of court cases taking their sweet old time to come to the forgone conclusions.
Because they are unusual, it is lawful for the government to ban them. This is true of all dangerous and unusual weapons.
But the government has been explicitly forbade the ability to ban dangerous weapons that are commonly used for lawful purposes.