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Article 3, §1 of the 2006 Weapons Act [7] lists the switchblade or automatic knife (couteaux à cran d'arrêt et à lame jaillissante), as well as butterfly knives, throwing knives, throwing stars, and knives or blades that have the appearance of other objects (i.e. sword canes, belt buckle knives, etc.) as prohibited weapons. [8]
Shuriken are also known as throwing stars, or ninja stars, although they were originally constructed in many different shapes. The major varieties of shuriken are the bō shuriken ( 棒手裏剣 , stick shuriken) and the hira shuriken ( 平手裏剣 , flat shuriken) or shaken ( 車剣 , wheel shuriken, also read as kurumaken ) .
(The Center Square) – Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order “to protect Texans from the coordinated harassment and coercion by the People's Republic of China (PRC) or the Chinese ...
In 2021, Abbott signed into law the “Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act,” which the Texas legislature unanimously passed to ban Texas governmental entities and businesses from entering ...
Guandan, also known as “throwing eggs” in Chinese, is a poker-like card game that originated in Jiangsu, one of the wealthiest provinces in China. Amid some of the tensest U.S.-China relations ...
In the era before the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the area Chinese consulate advocated for the rights of ethnic Chinese in the city as ethnic Chinese at the time had limited rights. [7] The People's Republic of China operated the Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China in Houston in Montrose, [32] from 1979 until 2020.
In 2009, Texas invited the AP into the room where a reporter observed staff watching feeds from 43 cameras. They could see if fans were drinking alcohol (which was prohibited at the time) or disruptive, or take note of unattended bags. Fifteen years later, the report to the SEC said Texas could not identify anyone responsible for throwing debris.
Gambling boats have operated at times out of Texas ports, taking passengers on one-day "cruises to nowhere" in international waters, where there are no gambling laws. The casino cruise industry developed in other states in the early 1980s, but was a latecomer to Texas because of a state law prohibiting the docking of ships with gambling ...