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H439 • 2025

Allow Concealed Carry of Knife.

Allow Concealed Carry of Knife.

Crime Firearms
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Kidwell, Ward, Pike, Willingham
Last action
2025-05-01
Official status
Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Allow Concealed Carry of Knife.

H439-SMCV-32(CSCV-13)-v-2 (2025-04-08): Allow Concealed Carry of Knife.

What This Bill Does

  • H439-SMCV-32(CSCV-13)-v-2 (2025-04-08): Allow Concealed Carry of Knife.
  • H439-SMCV-46(e2)-v-4 (2025-04-28): Allow Concealed Carry of Knife.

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Filed

Plain English: 2025-2026 General Assembly HOUSE BILL 439: Allow Concealed Carry of Knife.

  • 2025-2026 General Assembly HOUSE BILL 439: Allow Concealed Carry of Knife.
  • Committee: House Judiciary 2.
  • If favorable, re -refer to Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Date: April 8, 2025 Introduced by: Reps.
  • Kidwell, Ward, Pike Prepared by: Hannah Kendrick Staff Attorney Analysis of: PCS to First Edition H439-CSCV-13 Kara McCraw Director *H439-SMCV-32(CSCV-13)-v-2* Legislative Analysis Division 919-733-2578 This bill analysis was prepared by the nonpartisan legislative staff for the use of legislators in their deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.
Filed

Plain English: 2025-2026 General Assembly HOUSE BILL 439: Allow Concealed Carry of Knife.

  • 2025-2026 General Assembly HOUSE BILL 439: Allow Concealed Carry of Knife.
  • Committee: House Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Date: April 28, 2025 Introduced by: Reps.
  • Kidwell, Ward, Pike Prepared by: Hannah Kendrick Staff Attorney Analysis of: Second Edition Kara McCraw Director *H439-SMCV-46(e2)-v-4* Legislative Analysis Division 919-733-2578 This bill analysis was prepared by the nonpartisan legislative staff for the use of legislators in their deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.
  • OVERVIEW: House Bill 439 would allow the concealed carry of bladed weapons if certain requirements are met.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-01 Senate

    Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate

  2. 2025-05-01 Senate

    Passed 1st Reading

  3. 2025-05-01 Senate

    Regular Message Received From House

  4. 2025-05-01 House

    Regular Message Sent To Senate

  5. 2025-04-30 House

    Passed 3rd Reading

  6. 2025-04-30 House

    Passed 2nd Reading

  7. 2025-04-28 House

    Placed On Cal For 04/30/2025

  8. 2025-04-28 House

    Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)

  9. 2025-04-28 House

    Reptd Fav

  10. 2025-04-08 House

    Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  11. 2025-04-08 House

    Reptd Fav Com Substitute

  12. 2025-03-20 House

    Ref to the Com on Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  13. 2025-03-20 House

    Passed 1st Reading

  14. 2025-03-18 House

    Filed

Official Summary Text

H439-SMCV-32(CSCV-13)-v-2
(2025-04-08): Allow Concealed Carry of Knife.
H439-SMCV-46(e2)-v-4
(2025-04-28): Allow Concealed Carry of Knife.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 2
HOUSE BILL 439
Committee Substitute Favorable 4/8/25

Short Title: Allow Concealed Carry of Knife. (Public)
Sponsors:
Referred to:
March 20, 2025
*H439-v-2*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CONCEALED CARRY OF BLADED WEAPONS IF CER TAIN 2
REQUIREMENTS ARE MET. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. G.S. 14-269 reads as rewritten: 5
"§ 14-269. Carrying concealed weapons. 6
… 7
(d) This section does not apply to an ordinary pocket knife carried in a closed position. 8
As used in this section, "ordinary pocket knife" means a small knife, designed for carrying in a 9
pocket or purse, that has its cutting edge and point entirely enclosed by its handle, and that may 10
not be opened by a throwing, explosive, or spring action. 11
(e) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply if all of the following apply: 12
(1) The weapon is a knife. 13
(2) The person carrying the concealed knife is at least 18 years of age. 14
(3) The person carries valid identification at all times the person is carrying a 15
concealed knife and displays the identification upon demand by a law 16
enforcement officer. 17
(4) The person has not been convicted of a felony under the laws of this State, 18
another state, or the United States. 19
(5) The person is not a fugitive from justice. 20
(6) The person is not an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance. 21
(7) The person has not been adjudicated as mentally defective and has not been 22
committed to any mental institution at 16 years of age or older. 23
(8) The person is not an alien, either illegally or unlawfully in the United States. 24
(9) The person has not been discharged from the Armed Forces under 25
dishonorable conditions. 26
(10) The person, having been a citizen of the United States, has not renounced his 27
or her citizenship. 28
(11) The person is not subject to a court order that restrains such person from 29
harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner of such person or child 30
of such intimate partner or person, or engaging in other conduct that would 31
place an intimate partner in reasonable fe ar of bodily injury to the partner or 32
child. 33
(12) The person has not been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of 34
domestic violence. 35
General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025
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(13) The person is not carrying a concealed knife in or on a place where a concealed 1
handgun is prohibited from being carried under subsection (c) of 2
G.S. 14-415.11. 3
For purposes of this subsection, the term "knife" means (i) a bowie knife, (ii) a dirk, (iii) a 4
dagger, (iv) a switchblade, as that term is defined in G.S. 14-269.2, or (v) a bladed weapon of 5
like kind to the weapons described in this subsection." 6
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2025, and applies to offenses 7
committed on or after that date. 8