Sap Gloves

[BillyT]

Ive searched the internet, I've found mixed results and nothing regarding Indiana laws or various county's.

Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of the legality of these in Indiana?

 

[Kirk Freeman]

What did you find, Billy?

 

[cosermann]

Saps are legal as far as I know. The laws regulating them seem to have been repealed. So, I'm guessing there'd be no problem w/sap gloves. The SAP question seems to come up every once in a while. See a couple of previous threads below:

https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/carry_issues_and_self_defense/52935-coin_wallet_sap.html

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...se/30209-saps_blackjacks_coin_purses_etc.html

 

[BillyT]

What did you find, Billy?

I've found abunch of contradictory info. One person would say they are legal, others would say not. I didnt find anything on the law regulatingthem.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

O.K., when you say you found, you mean you heard at the gun shop, right?

Billy, Indiana has no statute against sap gloves. Understand that some Southern states do have such a statute thus if you go to a gun show with Southern gun dealers, e.g. the Indy 1500, you will hear that they are illegal as they are illegal in that dealer's state. As well you will see switchblades for sale at the Indy 1500 as they are legal in Tennessee or wherever the dealer is from.

This is a variant of Kirk's First Law of the Internet.

Good for you for checking to see if you are in the clear.

Sap gloves are very old school. They were very popular with police in the 60s and 70s and very effective from the stories I heard in law enforcement.

 

[Blue Tile Spook]

The last sap I bought was listed on the price tag as a "bug killer" because the seller thought it was illegal in Indiana for the reason that Kirk wrote - it is illegal in his state so it must be in Indiana, too.