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Knuckles, baton and club laws in West Virginia

We list 2 West Virginia rules on knuckles, batons, clubs, nunchaku and throwing stars.

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West Virginia

18+Require buyer 18+ for metal knuckles, blackjacks/sand clubs and nunchaku shipped to West Virginia (deadly weapons under 61-7-2; sale to minors barred by 61-7-10(b) with 61-7-8).
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(b) A person may not knowingly sell, rent, give or lend, or, where the person is other than a natural person, knowingly permit an employee thereof to knowingly sell, rent, give or lend, any deadly weapon other than a firearm to a person prohibited from possessing a deadly weapon other than a firearm by any provision of this article.
18+Sell billy clubs and batons to West Virginia buyers only if they are 18 or older; West Virginia counts a billy club as a "blackjack" deadly weapon that unemancipated minors may not possess.
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(b) A person may not knowingly sell, rent, give or lend, or, where the person is other than a natural person, knowingly permit an employee thereof to knowingly sell, rent, give or lend, any deadly weapon other than a firearm to a person prohibited from possessing a deadly weapon other than a firearm by any provision of this article.