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Code · U.S. Code · Title 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE · CHAPTER 29— MANUFACTURE, TRANSPORTATION, OR DISTRIBUTION OF SWITCHBLADE KNIVES · § 1243

§ 1243. Manufacture, sale, or possession within specific jurisdictions; penalty

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Whoever, within any Territory or possession of the United States, within Indian country (as defined in section 1151 of title 18), or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States (as defined in section 7 of title 18), manufactures, sells, or possesses any switchblade knife, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
(Pub. L. 85–623, § 3, Aug. 12, 1958, 72 Stat. 562.)
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§ 1243
Manufacture, sale, or possession within specific jurisdictions; penalty
Pub. L.Pub. L. 85–623, § 3
Stat.72 Stat. 562
Pub. L.section 6 of Pub. L. 85–623
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