Bill Summaries: H439 ALLOW CONCEALED CARRY OF KNIFE.

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  • Summary date: Apr 8 2025 - View Summary

    House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes. Removes changes to defined term ordinary pocket knife in GS 14-269 (offense of carrying concealed weapons).  Changes the scope of the new exemption for persons meeting the five conditions listed, from the entirety of GS 14-269, to just GS 14-269(a) (prohibiting carrying concealed listed knives and other weapons except for pistols or guns). Adds eight further conditions that must be met for the exemption to apply, including that the person: (1) is not a fugitive from justice; (2) is not an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance; (3) has not been adjudicated as mentally defective and has not been committed to any mental institution at 16 years of age or older; (4) is not an alien, either illegally or unlawfully in the United States; (5) has not been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions; (6) having been a citizen of the United States, has not renounced their citizenship; (7) is not subject to a court order that restrains the person from harassing, stalking, or threatening their intimate partner or child, or engaging in other conduct that would place an intimate partner in reasonable fear of bodily injury to the partner or child; and (8) has not been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. Makes technical changes.


  • Summary date: Mar 18 2025 - View Summary

    Amends GS 14-269 (prohibiting carrying concealed knives and other listed deadly weapons), as follows. Amends the definition of ordinary pocket knife, which is exempt from the statute when carried in a closed position, so that it now means a folding knife with a blade not more than 6 inches long (was, a small knife, designed for carrying in a pocket or purse, that has its cutting edge and point entirely enclosed by its handle, and that may not be opened by a throwing, explosive, or spring action). Adds that the statute does not apply if: (1) the weapon is a knife (defined as a bowie knife, dirk, dagger, switchblade, or a bladed weapon of like kind to these weapons described not including an ordinary pocket knife); (2) the person carrying the concealed knife is at least 18 years old; (3) the person carries valid identification at all times that they are carrying a concealed knife and displays the identification upon demand by a law enforcement officer; (4) the person has not been convicted of a felony under the laws of this state, another state, or the United States; and (5) the person is not carrying a concealed knife in or on a place where a concealed handgun is prohibited from being carried under subsection (c) of GS 14-415.11. Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2025.