US Code

Public Law 119-102 (07/12/2026)

15 U.S.C. § 1242

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

Section text and notes

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, § 272 Stat. 562 (, , .)

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

section 6 of Pub. L. 85–623section 1241 of this titleSection effective on the sixtieth day after , see , set out as a note under .