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Code · U.S. Code · Title 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE · CHAPTER 29— MANUFACTURE, TRANSPORTATION, OR DISTRIBUTION OF SWITCHBLADE KNIVES · § 1242

§ 1242. Introduction, manufacture for introduction, transportation or distribution in interstate commerce; penalty

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Whoever knowingly introduces, or manufactures for introduction, into interstate commerce, or transports or distributes in interstate commerce, any switchblade knife, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
(Pub. L. 85–623, § 2, Aug. 12, 1958, 72 Stat. 562.)
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§ 1242
Introduction, manufacture for introduction, transportation or distribution in interstate commerce; penalty
Pub. L.Pub. L. 85–623, § 2
Stat.72 Stat. 562
Pub. L.section 6 of Pub. L. 85–623
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