View Full Version : Legality of carrying a fixed blade in VA?
June 2, 2002, 03:50 PM I want to carry a fixed blade for defense
since being only 18 I can't get a VA carry permit yet. One legal
concern though. I'm in Virginia. They've outlawed the carrying
of dirks and bowie knives concealed. Virginia case law defines a
"'dirk' or weapon of like kind" as "any stabbing weapon having
two sharp edges and a point"; and defining "'bowie knife' or
weapon of like kind" as "any stabbing weapon having a single
sharp edge, a dull or serrated flat edge and a point".  A bowie
knife, by this definition, would be practically any "tactical"
fixed blade knife with one edge, and a dirk any such knife with
two edges. If so, what does this mean for an EDC knife?  In my
opinion it's better to be tried by 12 then carried by six. I
believe that the only way that anyone would know that I had it
would be if I had to use it in defense. I am very discrete,
don't show off or brag about what I'm carrying or play with a
defense knife pub