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Brass knuckles and other self-defense item to be legal in Texas

Brass knuckles and other self-defense item to be legal in Texas
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By Riane Roldan, Texas Tribune

Had one north Texas woman not gotten into a fender bender last year, police might have never arrested her for carrying a cat-shaped self-defense keychain in her purse, and the law banning those same weapons might have gone unnoticed.

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