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In Arizona, It's No Longer A Felony To Own Nunchucks
It's officially legal to own nunchucks in Arizona. On Friday, the state's Republican governor, Doug Ducey signed a bill removing nunchucks from a list of prohibited weapons that includes bombs, gun silencers and automatic firearms.
Until Friday, people who practiced martial arts faced the risk of a felony charge for possessing nunchucks in public. Arizona only allowed the weapons to be used in preparation for martial arts competitions.
"The average person can do far more damage using a baseball bat than nunchucks," Arizona Rep. John Kavanaugh, a Republican, told the Associated Press before the legislation passed. "They're not dangerous to anybody. And we really should let kids and adults who want to do martial arts activities legally possess them."
Several states, including Arizona, adopted the ban in the 1970s as martial arts movies, like ones starring Bruce Lee, became popular, according to the Arizona Daily Star. Last year, a federal judge struck down a similar ban in New York ruling that nunchucks were protected under the Second Amendment, the Washington Post reported.
Nunchaku, not dangerous? That's an insult to the Okinawan people!
The exact origin of nunchaku is unclear. Allegedly adapted by Okinawan farmers from a non-weapon implement for threshing rice, it was not a historically popular weapon because it was ineffective against the most widely used weapons of that time such as samurai swords, and few historical techniques for its use still survive.
Previously: New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional
(Score: 3, Interesting) by legont on Monday May 13 2019, @05:10PM (6 children)
For simple untrained people a much more effective device is what Russians call "Kisten'". Imagine a nunchucks with a longer chain and one side replaced with a metal ball. It crushes head even if used by a child or a slim woman.
Easy to make versions include a rubber pipe with a large screw/bolt screwed into one side or a large nut attached to parachute cord similar to this one https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e6/d4/85/e6d4853023e0891960c14587f9f57fc5--parachute-cord--paracord.jpg [pinimg.com]
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 13 2019, @05:29PM
This is a modern mace.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Gault.Drakkor on Monday May 13 2019, @06:01PM (3 children)
AKA flail.
Flail: Stick(longer then the flexible section) + flexible section + weight.
Seems that both nunchuck and flails are derived from threshing tools.
(Side note to AC. Mace: stick + end weight, no flexible bits.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 13 2019, @06:13PM
There are few things you can count on in this world, but being corrected on SN is one of those few.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 13 2019, @09:13PM (1 child)
I believe a flail is just another name for two sticks connected with a chain. I think the spiked ball on a chain is a morning star.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday May 13 2019, @09:36PM
Still a flail. A morning star is a spiked ball on a stick.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday May 13 2019, @07:55PM
To make it even more effective, the weight at the end should be a spiked ball. Then the proper name for it is "morning star", well, even more properly "Morgenstern". I'd give a link, but the my search results only yielded a club with a spiked head, i.e. a variant of a mace, rather than the proper variant of a flail.
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