Shipping Restrictions

Navigate shipping restrictions for Knives and Airsoft across the US by location, ensuring compliance and safety with our comprehensive guide at Replica Airguns.

 

Airsoft Shipping Restrictions

Arizona

• Archery Airguns

California

• Blowguns
• Blowgun bolts & darts
• Foregrips

Connecticut

• Foregrips

Delaware

• Dover:
  • Slingshots
  • Slingshot ammo & slingshot accessories
• Wilmington:
  • Slingshots
  • Slingshot ammo & slingshot accessories

Florida

• Archery Airguns
• St. Augustine:
  • Slingshots
  • Slingshot ammo & slingshot accessories

Georgia

• Archery Airguns

Illinois

• Airguns over 700 fps or calibers over .18
• Aurora:
  • Foregrips
• Chicago:
  • Airguns
  • Airsoft guns
  • Blank guns
  • Blank gun ammo
• Cook County:
  • Foregrips
• Evergreen Park:
  • Slingshots
  • Slingshot ammo & slingshot accessories

Maryland

• Archery Airguns

Massachusetts

• Blowguns
• Blowgun bolts & darts
• Slingshots
• Slingshot ammo & slingshot accessories

Michigan

• Pellet guns measuring 30 inches or less (overall length). Guns with rifled barrels that are 30" or less in overall length are regulated by the State and require a concealed gun permit or a state license to purchase a pistol.
• Guns that have silencers or baffles (either internal or external) that will silence, muffle or in any way reduce the report (sound) of an airgun.
• Silencers or baffles

*Smoothbore air rifles and smoothbore air pistols of .177 caliber or less do not require a permit regardless of overall length. Also, all airsoft guns are exempt.

Minnesota

• Duluth:
  • Slingshots
  • Slingshot ammo & slingshot accessories

Missouri

• Archery Airguns
• St. Louis:
  • Slingshots
  • Slingshot ammo & slingshot accessories

New Jersey

• Pellet guns & BB guns
• Slingshots
• Slingshot ammo & slingshot accessories

New York

• Foregrips
• Wrist-braced slingshots 

New York City & it's 5 boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens & Staten Island (incl. ZIP Codes 100xx-104xx, 111xx, 112xx-114xx & 116xx) 

• Airguns
• Air rifles 
• BB guns
• Blank guns
• Blank gun ammo 
• Blowguns
• Blowgun bolts & darts 
• Crossbows
• Lasers
• Locking folding knives with blades longer than 4 inches
• Longbows

 North Carolina

• Archery Airguns
• Blank guns 
• Blank gun ammo

 Pennsylvania

• Philadelphia:
  • Air pistols 
  • Air rifles
  • Airsoft guns
  • BB guns 
  • Blowguns
  • Blowgun bolts & darts 
  • Crossbows
  • Longbows
  • Slingshots
  • Slingshot ammo
  • Slingshot accessories

Puerto Rico

• Blank guns 
• Blank gun ammo

Rhode Island

• Blank guns
• Blank gun ammo 
• Slingshots
• Slingshot ammo & slingshot accessories

South Carolina

• Archery Airguns
• Slingshots
• Slingshot ammo & slingshot accessories

Tennessee

• Johnson City:
  • Airguns
  • Air rifles
  • Airsoft guns
  • BB guns 
  • Slingshots
  • Slingshot ammo & slingshot accessories

Texas

• Archery Airguns

• Knoxville:
  • Slingshots
  • Slingshot ammo & slingshot accessories

Utah

• Archery Airguns
• Salt Lake County:
  • Slingshots
  • Slingshot ammo & slingshot accessories

Virginia

• Archery Airguns
• Blank guns
• Blank gun ammo
• Falls Church: 
  • Slingshots
  • Slingshot ammo & slingshot accessories

Washington, D.C.

• Airguns 
• Air rifles
• Airsoft guns
• BB guns

Wisconsin

• Madison:
  • Foregrips
  • Slingshots
  • Slingshot ammo & slingshot accessories

 

 

Knives Shipping Restrictions

Alabama 

Legal: 

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Switchblades, gravity knives, automatic and assisted opening knives 
• Stilettos, dirks, toothpick knives 
• All folding knives 
• Bowies allowed openly/ concealed on own property 
• Double-sided knives 
• If knives fit in pocket, legal 
• Out the front knives 

Illegal: 

• Concealed Bowies (also in vehicles) 
• Any concealed machine that might be classified as Bowies  

• Selling Bowies to under 18s 

 

Alaska 

Legal: 

• Adults can possess switchblade or gravity knives 
• Minors under 16 can possess with parental consent 

 

Arizona 

Legal: 

• No limits on blade length 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives), Bowie knives, pocketknives, switchblades, stilettos 
• Anyone over 21 can carry knives 

Illegal 

• Concealing a non-pocketknife without telling the police is illegal. 

 

Arkansas 

Legal: 

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives), switchblades, automatic knives, gravity knives 
• Dinks, stilettos, large knives 

 

California 

Legal: 

• Bowie knives legal 
• Open/concealed carry legal depending on knives 

Illegal: 

• Switchblades (unless blade is less than 2") 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Misleading/undetectable knives 
• Dirks, stilettos, daggers 
• Ballistic knives 

 

Colorado 

Legal: 

• Dirks, daggers, push knives, and stilettos 
• Bowies 

• Disguised knives 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) in a legal grey area 
• Gravity knives and switchblades 

Illegal to carry concealed: 

• Knives less than 3.5 inches 
• Fishing and hunting knives of any length 
• Knives over 3.5 inches 

 

Connecticut 

Legal: 

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives), automatic knives, gravity knives, and switchblades 
• Dirks, stilettos, daggers, and push knives 
• Disguised knives  
• Bowies 

Illegal: 

• Automatic knives over 1.5 inches 
• Switchblades over 1.5 inches 
• Stilettos 
• Blades longer than 4 inches 

 

Delaware 

Legal: 

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Bowies 
• Disguised knives  
• Throwing knives 
• Stilettos, dirks, and daggers 

Illegal: 

• Knives with pointed tip 
• Knives with brass knuckles 
• Switchblades and gravity knives 
• Throwing stars 

 

Florida 

Legal: 

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Belt knives, cane knives, and other disguised knives 

• Bowies 
• Throwing stars and throwing knives 
• Undetectable knives 

Illegal: 

• Ballistic knives 

Limits on carry: 

• Concealed carry of box cutters, multi-tools, and other work knives 
• Concealed carry of common pocketknives with a blade less than 4 inches 

 

Georgia 

Legal:  

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives)  
• Bowies 
• Throwing stars and throwing knives  
• Disguised knives 
• Push knives, stilettos, switchblades, dirks, and daggers  
• Spring-assisted ballistic knives  
• Knives undetectable with a metal detector  

Limits on Carry:  

• Carrying a knife larger than 5 inches without a permit  
• Carrying knives greater than 12 inches without a weapons permit  

 

Hawaii 

Legal:  

• Bowies 
• Throwing stars and throwing knives  
• Disguised knives 
• Undetectable knives  
• Dirks, daggers, and stilettos  
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 

Illegal:  

• Switchblades  

Limits on Carry: 

• Open carry any knives. 
• No concealed carry for dirks, daggers, or similar knives. 
• No concealed carry for knives with knuckles. 

 

Idaho 

Legal:  

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Switchblades, automatic knives, and other quick-release knives  
• Bowies 
• Throwing stars and throwing knives  
• Stilettos, dirks, and other stabbing knives  
• Disguised knives like belt knives, lipstick knives, cane knives, and key knives  
• Spring-assisted ballistic knives  
• Pocketknives of any size  

Illegal: 

• Under 18 Need parental consent for bowie or dirk 
• Under 12, No bowie or dirk, unless with parents 
• Restrictions apply when carrying knives outside the home 

Limits on Carry: 

• Open carry any knives 
• No knives (open or concealed) except 2.5" pocketknives allowed at school.  
• No concealed carry of dirks, bowies, or dangerous weapons. 
• No concealed carry, even with permit, while intoxicated. 

 

Illinois 

Legal:  

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Disguised knives 
• Throwing knives  
• Bowies 
• Switchblades and other automatic knives  

Illegal:  

• Throwing stars  
• Switchblades (to possess) 
• Ballistic knives  
• Any open knives with a press button 

 

Indiana 

Legal:  

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Bowie knives  
• Dirks, daggers, and stilettos  

• Assisted knives  
• Disguised knives 
• Switchblades and other automatic knives  

Illegal:  

• Ballistic knives  
• Throwing stars  

Limits on carry: 

• Unrestricted carry, except in schools. 

 

Iowa 

Legal:  

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Switchblades and automatic knives  
• Dirks, daggers, stilettos, and other stabbing knives  
• Bowie knives and other large knives  
• Disguised knives 

Illegal:  

• Ballistic knives  

Limits on carry: 

• Concealed switchblades. 
• Concealed daggers or stilettos. 
• Concealed knives over 5 inches. 
• Concealed Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Concealed disguised knives. 

 

Kansas 

Legal:  

• Bowies 
• Dirks, daggers, stilettos, and other stabbing knives  
• Disguised knives 
• Switchblades and other automatic knives  
• Gravity knives  
• Undetectable knives  

Illegal:  

• Ballistic knives  
• Throwing stars  

 

Kentucky 

Legal:  

• Ballistic knives  
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Switchblades and other automatic knives  
• Dirks, daggers, stilettos, and other stabbing knives  
• Disguised knives 
• Undetectable knives  
• Bowies 

Limits on carry: 

• Anything other than a pocket or hunting knives is prohibited from concealed carry. 

 

Louisiana 

Legal: 

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives)  
• Dirks, daggers, stilettos, and other slim knives  
• Disguised knives 
• Undetectable knives  
• Throwing stars and throwing knives  

• Bowie knives and other large knives  

Illegal:  

• Switchblades and other automatic knives  

 

Maine 

Legal: 

• Bowie knives 
• Dirks, stilettos, daggers, and other slim knives 
• Throwing stars and throwing knives 
• Disguised knives 

Illegal: 

• Switchblades 
• Automatic knives 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 

Limits on carry: 

• Concealed daggers 
• Concealed stilettos 

 

Maryland 

Legal: 

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Dirks, daggers, stilettos, and slim knives 
• Switchblades, gravity knives, automatic knives, and ballistic knives 
• Disguised knives 
• Throwing stars and throwing knives 
• Undetectable knives 
• Bowies 

Limits on Carry: 

• Concealed throwing stars, dirks, switchblades, gravity knives, or bowies 

 

Massachusetts 

Legal: 

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives), switchblades, automatic knives, and ballistic knives 
• Dirks, daggers, stilettos, and push knives 
• Disguised knives 
• Bowies 
• Throwing knives and throwing stars 

Limits on Carry: 

• Concealed switchblades, dirks, daggers and stilettos 

 

Michigan 

Legal: 

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Dirks, daggers and stilettos 
• Throwing knives and throwing stars 
• Bowie knives and other large knives 
• Hidden knives like belt knives and lipstick knives 
• Undetectable knives 

Illegal to Carry: 

• Dirks, stilettos, daggers, and double-edged in vehicles 

 

Minnesota  

Legal: 

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Dirks, stilettos, daggers, and other stabbing knives 

• Disguised knives 
• Bowie knives 
• Throwing stars and throwing knives 

 

Mississippi 

Legal: 

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Dirks, daggers, stilettos, and slim knives 
• Disguised knives 
• Throwing stars and throwing knives 
• Bowie knives 
• Switchblades, gravity knives, and automatic knives 

Illegal: 

• Minors under 18 and convicted felons prohibited from owning bowie knives, dirk knives, butcher knives, switchblade and automatic knives 

Limits on Carry: 

• Concealed bowie, dirk, butcher knives, switchblades 
• Open knives in vehicles 
• Minors or a student on educational property 

 

Missouri 

Legal: 

• Dirks, stilettos, and slim knives 
• Boot knives and other daggers 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Undetectable knives 
• Throwing stars, throwing knives, and throwing axes 
• Bowies 

Illegal: 

• Owning a switchblade is a Class C Felony, unless following federal law (15 USC Chapter 29), which permits possession of a switchblade under three inches for individuals with one arm or containing a spring for blade closure. 

 

Montana 

Legal: 

• Dirk, dagger, stiletto, or other push knives 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Bowies 
• Throwing knives or throwing stars 
• Disguised knives such as cane and lipstick knives 

• 4 or more inches length blade from the list of illegal concealed weapons.  

Illegal: 

• Switchblade knives without registration with local Sheriff if collecting 

Limits on Carry: 

• Illegal to conceal carry dirks or daggers 
• Illegal to possess or carry knives with blades over 4 inches in school buildings 
• Illegal to conceal carry while intoxicated or into certain establishments 

 

Nebraska 

Legal: 

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Bowie knives 
• Dirks, daggers, and stilettos 
• Ballistic knives 
• Disguised knives 
• Switchblades and automatic knives 

Illegal: 

• For felons, fugitives, or those under domestic violence protective orders 

 

Nevada 

Legal: 

• Dirk, dagger, or other stabbing knives 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Bowie and other hunting knives 
• Throwing knives and throwing stars 

Illegal: 

• Knives integral to belt buckles 
• Switchblade knives 

Restrictions on Carry: 

• Possess certain knives on school property or in school vehicles 
• Concealed carry dirks, daggers, or machetes 
• Concealed carry any knives that is legal to own 

 

New Hampshire 

Legal: 

• Any type of knives, except for those convicted of certain felonies 

Illegal: 

• Stiletto 
• Dirk or dagger 
• Switchblade knives 

 

New Jersey 

Legal: 

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Disguised knives 
• Bowie knives 
• Throwing stars and throwing knives 
• Any weapon with a lawful purpose 

Illegal: 

• Certain types of knives for those convicted of specified crimes or deemed mentally ill 

 

New Mexico 

Legal: 

• Bowie knives 
• Throwing stars or knives 

• Dirk, dagger, or other stabbing knives 
• Stiletto 

Illegal: 

• Switchblade 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 

 

New York 

Legal: 

• Hunting knives 
• Dirk or dagger 
• Stiletto 

Illegal: 

• Switchblades and swords 
• Pilum ballistic knives 
• Metal knuckle knives 
• Cane sword 
• Throwing stars 
• Nor U.S citizen 
• Minors under 16 are not allowed to have any dangerous knives 

 

North Carolina 

Legal: 

• Bowie knives 
• Dirk, dagger, or other stabbing knives 
• Switchblade 
• Gravity knives 
• Disguised knives 

Illegal: 

• Spring-assisted projectile knives 
• Ballistic knives 

 

North Dakota 

Restrictions on Carry: 

• Illegal to conceal carry gravity knives, switchblades, machetes, scimitars, backswords, sabers, stilettos, swords, dirks, or daggers, or any knives with a blade 5 inches or longer 

 

Ohio 

Legal: 

• Switchblade or gravity knives 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) and Balisong trainers 
• Ballistic knives 
• Dirk, dagger, or other stabbing knives 
• Bowie knives 
• Stiletto 

 

Oklahoma 

Legal: 

• Dirk, dagger, or other stabbing knives 
• Bowie knives 
• Switchblade or gravity knives 
• Cane sword 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) and Balisong trainers 
• Stiletto 

Restrictions on Carry: 

• Illegal to conceal or open carry dagger, Bowie knives, dirk knives, switchblade knives, spring-assisted knives, sword cane, or any knives with a blade that opens automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring, or other device in the handle 

 

Oregon 

Legal: 

• Dirk, dagger, or other stabbing knives 
• Bowie knives 
• Switchblade or other automatic knives 
• Ballistic knives 
• Gravity knives 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) and Balisong trainers 
• Stiletto 

 

Pennsylvania 

Legal: 

• Bowie knives 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Penknives 
• Concealed knives, such as in a lipstick or belt buckle 
• Any kind of hunting knives 

Illegal: 

• Dagger 
• Automatic knives 
• Sword cane 
• Any implement for the infliction of bodily injury, which serves no "common lawful purpose" 

 

Rhode Island 

Legal: 

• Dirk, dagger, or other stabbing knives 
• Stiletto 
• Sword cane 
• Concealed knives, such as in a belt buckle or lipstick 
• Bowie knives 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Switchblade 

Restrictions on Carry: 

• Illegal to conceal carry dirk, dagger, or other stabbing knives; stiletto; sword cane; Bowie knives; or any knives with a blade more than 3 inches in length 
• Legal to open carry any type of knives 

 

South Carolina 

Legal: 

• Switchblade 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Bowie knives 
• Dirk, dagger, or other stabbing knives 
• Stiletto 
• Disguised knives, such as in a lipstick or belt buckle 

Restrictions on Carry: 

• Legal to conceal carry Dirk, switchblade knives, Balisong knives (butterfly knives), Bowie knives, stiletto 

 

South Dakota 

Legal: 

• Switchblade or any type of automatic knives 
• Ballistic knives 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Bowie knives 
• Dirk, dagger, or other stabbing knives 
• Stiletto 

• Sword cane 
• Disguised knives, such as in a belt buckle or lipstick 

Illegal: 

• None specified 

Restrictions on Carry: 

• Any knives may be carried openly or concealed 

 

Tennessee 

Legal: 

• Sale, transfer, ownership, possession, and transportation of switchblade knives and knives with a blade length exceeding four inches 

 

Texas 

Legal to Carry: 

• Knives with blades over 5 1/2 inches 

Illegal to Carry: 

• Knives blades longer than 5 1/2 inches 

 

Utah 

Legal 

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Dirk, dagger, or other stabbing knives 
• Stiletto 
• Bowie knives 
• Automatic or gravity knives 
• Disguised knives, such as a lipstick or belt buckle 

Illegal: 

• Certain individuals prohibited from owning "dangerous weapons" 

 

Vermont 

Legal: 

• Dirk, dagger, or other stabbing knives 
• Stiletto 
• Bowie knives 
• Disguised knives, such as a lipstick or belt buckle 
• Throwing stars or knives 

Illegal: 

• Switchblade with a blade 3 inches or longer 

Restrictions on Carry: 

• Illegal to carry a dangerous or deadly weapon onto school or government property 

 

Virginia 

Legal: 

• Dirk, dagger, or other stabbing knives 
• Bowie knives 
• Switchblade 
• Ballistic knives 
• Throwing stars or other throwing knives 
• Stiletto 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 

Illegal: 

• Conceal carry of certain knives 

Restrictions in carry: 

• Concealed Dirk, Bowie knives, switchblade knives, machete, ballistic knives, throwing stars or oriental darts, or any knives similar to those listed above. 

 

Washington 

Legal: 

• Dirk, dagger, or other stabbing knives 
• Bowie knives 
• Stiletto 
• Disguised knives, such as a lipstick or belt buckle 
• Throwing stars 

Illegal: 

• Switchblade or other spring blade knives 

Restrictions on Carry: 

• Concealed dirk, dagger or any dangerous weapon 
• Open or conceal carry any weapon into a Courtroom 

 

West Virginia 

Legal: 

• Dirk, dagger, or other stabbing knives 
• Stiletto 
• Switchblade 

• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Bowie knives 
• Ballistic knives 

Restrictions on Carry: 

• Concealed Dirk, dagger, or other stabbing knives with a blade over 3 ½ inches like switchblade or any automatic knives, gravity knives, Balisong knives (butterfly knives), any instrument capable of inflicting cutting, stabbing, or tearing wounds or any deadly weapon. 

 

Wisconsin 

Illegal: 

• Concealed carry with criminal or malicious intent 

 

Wyoming 

Legal: 

• Switchblade 
• Balisong knives (butterfly knives) 
• Bowie knives 
• Dirk, dagger, poniard, or other stabbing knives 
• Stiletto 
• Gravity knives 

Restrictions on Carry: 

• Illegal to conceal carry a deadly weapon 

 

 

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