North Carolina 2025-2026 Regular Session

North Carolina House Bill H439 Compare Versions

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Old	New		Differences
1	1		GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
2	2		SESSION 2025
3		-	H 2
	3	+	H 1
4	4		HOUSE BILL 439
5		-	~~Committee Substitute Favorable 4/8/25~~
	5	+
6	6
7	7		Short Title: Allow Concealed Carry of Knife. (Public)
8		-	Sponsors:
9		-	Referred to:
	8	+	Sponsors: Representatives Kidwell, Ward, and Pike (Primary Sponsors).
	9	+	For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
	10	+	Referred to: Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
10	11		March 20, 2025
11		-	H439 -v-2
	12	+	H439 -v-1
12	13		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
13	14		AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CONCEALED CARRY OF B LADED WEAPONS IF CERTAIN 2
14	15		REQUIREMENTS ARE MET . 3
15	16		The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
16	17		SECTION 1. G.S. 14-269 reads as rewritten: 5
17	18		"§ 14-269. Carrying concealed weapons. 6
18	19		… 7
19	20		(d) This section does not apply to an ordinary pocket knife carried in a closed position. 8
20	21		As used in this section, "ordinary pocket knife" means a small knife, designed for carrying in a 9
21	22		pocket or purse, that has its cutting edge and point entirely enclosed by its handle, and that may 10
22		-	not be opened by a throwing, explosive, or spring action. 11
23		-	(e) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply if all of the following apply: 12
24		-	(1) The weapon is a knife. 13
25		-	(2) The person carrying the concealed knife is at least 18 years of age. 14
26		-	(3) The person carries valid identification at all times the person is carrying a 15
27		-	concealed knife and displays the identification upon demand by a law 16
28		-	enforcement officer. 17
29		-	(4) The person has not been convicted of a felony under the laws of this State, 18
30		-	another state, or the United States. 19
31		-	(5) The person is not a fugitive from justice. 20
32		-	(6) The person is not an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance. 21
33		-	(7) The person has not been adjudicated as mentally defective and has not been 22
34		-	committed to any mental institution at 16 years of age or older. 23
35		-	(8) The person is not an alien, either illegally or unlawfully in the United States. 24
36		-	(9) The person has not been discharged from the Armed Forces under 25
37		-	dishonorable conditions. 26
38		-	(10) The person, having been a citizen of the United States, has not renounced his 27
39		-	or her citizenship. 28
40		-	(11) The person is not subject to a court order that restrains such person from 29
41		-	harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner of such person or child 30
42		-	of such intimate partner or person, or engaging in other conduct that would 31
43		-	place an intimate partner in reasonable fear of bodily injury to the partner or 32
44		-	child. 33
45		-	(12) The person has not been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of 34
46		-	domestic violence. 35 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025
47		-	Page 2 House Bill 439-Second Edition
48		-	(13) The person is not carrying a concealed knife in or on a place where a concealed 1
49		-	handgun is prohibited from being carried under subsection (c) of 2
50		-	G.S. 14-415.11. 3
51		-	For purposes of this subsection, the term "knife" means (i) a bowie knife, (ii) a dirk, (iii) a 4
52		-	dagger, (iv) a switchblade, as that term is defined in G.S. 14-269.2, or (v) a bladed weapon of 5
53		-	like kind to the weapons described in this subsection." 6
54		-	SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2025, and applies to offenses 7
55		-	committed on or after that date. 8
	23	+	not be opened by a throwing, explosive, or spring action.folding knife having a blade not more 11
	24	+	than 6 inches in length. 12
	25	+	(e) This section does not apply if (i) the weapon is a knife, (ii) the person carrying the 13
	26	+	concealed knife is at least 18 years of age, (iii) the person carries valid identification at all times 14
	27	+	he or she is carrying a concealed knife and displays the identification upon demand by a law 15
	28	+	enforcement officer, (iv) the person has not been convicted of a felony under the laws of this 16
	29	+	State, another state, or the United States, and (v) the person is not carrying a concealed knife in 17
	30	+	or on a place where a concealed handgun is prohibited from being carried under subsection (c) 18
	31	+	of G.S. 14-415.11. For purposes of this subsection, the term "knife" means any of the following: 19
	32	+	(1) A bowie knife. 20
	33	+	(2) A dirk. 21
	34	+	(3) A dagger. 22
	35	+	(4) A switchblade, as that term is defined in G.S. 14-269.2. 23
	36	+	(5) A bladed weapon of like kind to the weapons described in this subsection, but 24
	37	+	not including an ordinary pocket knife." 25
	38	+	SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2025, and applies to offenses 26
	39	+	committed on or after that date. 27