This will be interesting to hear. Since brass knuckles are restricted in NE, my guess is that it would not be good to get caught with these after an incident.

But now that coins are hard to find, you can't even carry around a roll of quarters in a sock any more.

 

I had a friend in the Army who over stepped his authority and was given the infamous "Blanket Party". I heard that they used bars of soap in socks on him. Both of his eyes were hemorrhaged and red but no permanent damage was done. He kept a lower profile after that. Poor guy, I felt sorry for him.

 

This is weird.

 

Not any more so than the I like weiners thread.

 

X-ray tech gloves? I think it is not so much that possession is going to get you. It will be the using that is going to but you legally.

Better off with things jury’s and police are more familiar with.

 

Are you gonna' beat down the next raccoon you catch in your trap before giving him two in the hat??

 

I saw these on line. These are filled with steel balls and a bit obvious. The powdered lead gloves are more discrete.

 

I still shadow-box with weighted gloves, though I've never hit a person with them.

There are a wide range of gloves on the market. The new MMA gloves allow full finger movement.

Mine are 40 years old and made of leather. The weight is probably lead, but they have never leaked and I've never wanted to break a stitch to see what's inside...

 

Don't have any gloves but keep a sap in the work SUV. I got it for a steal off Ebay. Yeah I wouldn't want to get hit with it. Is it legal in TX? They have changed laws so I don't know specifically but I believe so. I believe it would fall under laws pertaining to batons. Heck, I walk the dogs most nights with a PR24.

 

They are available? Look Here! Are they legal? YMMV

 

Legal to own YES . Legal to carry or wear ,,, guess you can find out if ever stopped patted down or if you use them . I bit there illegal to carry or use . But hey call your sheriff or DA and ask !! . I carry a knife and a handgun so this ole dog does not have to try to fight any more or hobble away quickly !!

 

Bring gloves to a gun fight not very smart.

 

I knew some PDs that used to issue them. They were to "protect officers hands from injury".

 

The answer to legality will vary GREATLY based on where you live. What might be fine in Texas or South Dakota May be highly illegal in NY NJ CA or Virginia.
This is all about state and local law. Best to check those where you live for a definitive answer

 

I have a lot of steel "gas pipe" out in the garage.............heheh.

 

Was that a thinly veiled murder confession?

 

L


Sounded like one, didn't it ?

 

Get Shorty | Chili Wants His Coat

 

Last I knew sap gloves would get you in trouble with the law in Kansas.

 

Made my own as a teen. only used once, really hit that clowns dimmer switch!

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/193511559599

Search for sap gloves on ebay. Plenty of options around $30

 

My great grandfather had a homemade leather "blackjack" or "sap" back in the 20's 30's and 40's.

He was often deputized by the town cop in the sleepy little West Virginia town when a little extra muscle was needed. As I understand, his hard left fist and that blackjack solved a lot of problems.

If you were "up to no good", it was rumored you might expect a visit from him and his people. But widows, the elderly, and those down on their luck with kids to feed often found their company store bill paid, stove wood chopped or bags of groceries on their porches.

I wish I could have known him better, but he passed when I was seven.

But I would give five hundred dollars for that storied blackjack today.

Gray_Rider
Old Secessh

 

My Dad was a bootlegger and bit of a tough guy. He ran booze between West Virginia and Pittsburgh PA during prohibition. He once told me that "its a good idea to carry a pocket full of nickels in your pocket because the extra weight of some coins within your fist makes a big difference when you punch someone." I don't know if he used the coins when he hit someone but he seemed to be speaking from experience. He had a lot of stories about when he rode the rails during the depression and the time he served in jail after they busted his speakeasy in San Francisco. This was a time when men wore fedoras, leather jackets and smoked Lucky Strikes. The Lucky Strikes finally killed him. He lived fast and large during his 81 years.

 

It probably varies form state to state.

In MA I believe they are prohibited to be carried under MGL Ch. 269 Sec 10(b) along with a bunch of other pretty benign weapons:
"Whoever, except as provided by law, carries on his person, or carries on his person or under his control in a vehicle, any stiletto, dagger or a device or case which enables a knife with a locking blade to be drawn at a locked position, any ballistic knife, or any knife with a detachable blade capable of being propelled by any mechanism, dirk knife, any knife having a double-edged blade, or a switch knife, or any knife having an automatic spring release device by which the blade is released from the handle, having a blade of over one and one-half inches, or a slung shot, blowgun, blackjack, metallic knuckles or knuckles of any substance which could be put to the same use with the same or similar effect as metallic knuckles, nunchaku, zoobow, also known as klackers or kung fu sticks, or any similar weapon consisting of two sticks of wood, plastic or metal connected at one end by a length of rope, chain, wire or leather, a shuriken or any similar pointed starlike object intended to injure a person when thrown, or any armband, made with leather which has metallic spikes, points or studs or any similar device made from any other substance or a cestus or similar material weighted with metal or other substance and worn on the hand, or a manrikigusari or similar length of chain having weighted ends; or whoever, when arrested upon a warrant for an alleged crime, or when arrested while committing a breach or disturbance of the public peace, is armed with or has on his person, or has on his person or under his control in a vehicle, a billy or other dangerous weapon other than those herein mentioned and those mentioned in paragraph (a), shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than two and one-half years nor more than five years in the state prison, or for not less than six months nor more than two and one-half years in a jail or house of correction, except that, if the court finds that the defendant has not been previously convicted of a felony, he may be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two and one-half years in a jail or house of correction."

https://malegislature.gov/laws/generallaws/partiv/titlei/chapter269/section10

So you could have these in your house, but would have no way to get them there unless you had them mailed. Welcome to the retarded legislature of MA.

 

Seems like those might interfere with drawing & shooting.

 

I don't know? The only ones I have held was back around 1980. They were given to a friend by a state trouper. I guess it would depend on the size of the trigger guard. The owner of the gloves ran a strip club in South Korea. He told me that a Korean patron was causing a problem. He decided to show off his martial art stances. My friend told me that he quietly put on his sap gloves while the angry patron was posing and shouting. My friend was not a small or thin man. When the martial art show was going on my friend walked over to him and hit with the sap gloves. The Korean guy was knocked unconscious and carried out by the bouncers. I don't know if was a true story but it's a good one.

Maybe there are some old time police officers that can tell us if these gloves interfere with deploying a fire arm.

 

Michigan
A person shall not manufacture, sell, offer for sale, or possess any of the following:
A blackjack, slungshot, billy, metallic knuckles, sand club, sand bag, or bludgeon.

My motorcycle gloves have hard thermoplastic knuckle protectors - sort of like SAP gloves but no weight to amplify the force.

Historical note - Roman boxing gloves were iron knuckles.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Hot5hmMmvXjNJXur6

 

It has crosssed my mind that these perfectly ordinary and common gloves, commonly used by Soldiers for shooting, are way, way better than "sap gloves" in a fight - better for punching, light, fire-resistant and good for shooting:

The lead in sap gloves is so soft I've never seen much point. Sap Gloves with solid lead plates would make sense.

 

Texas legalized brass knuckles last year for the first time since 1918. No idea where you are but the law here defines knuckles as "any instrument that consists of finger rings or guards made of a hard substance and that is designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of inflicting serious bodily injury or death by striking a person with a fist enclosed in the knuckles."

 

The "powdered lead" filled gloves that I once saw were not hard. They were soft and would would form to the shape of your knuckles. They simply added some mass to the fist being thrown. (K = ½mv²) It was up to the user to provide the Velocity.