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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72106</law_id><section_number>18.2-311</section_number><catch_line>Prohibiting the selling or having in possession blackjacks, etc</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="7">Crimes Involving Health and Safety</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="7">Other Illegal Weapons</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If any person sells or barters, or exhibits for sale or for barter, or gives or furnishes, or causes to be sold, bartered, given, or furnished, or has in his <span class="dictionary">possession</span>, or under his control, with the <span class="dictionary">intent</span> of selling, bartering, giving, or furnishing, any blackjack, brass or metal knucks, any disc of whatever configuration having at least two points or pointed blades that is designed to be thrown or propelled and that may be known as a throwing star or oriental dart, ballistic knife as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/18.2-307.1/">18.2-307.1</a>, or like weapons, such person is guilty of a Class 4 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>. The having in one&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of any such weapon shall be prima facie <span class="dictionary">evidence</span>, except in the case of a conservator of the peace, of his <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to sell, barter, give, or furnish the same.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-271; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1985, c. 394; 1988, c. 359; 2013, c. 746; 2022, c. 27.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
