---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1242"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1242"
heading: "Introduction, manufacture for introduction, transportation or distribution in interstate commerce; penalty"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1242"
units:
  - "Chapter 29 — Manufacture, Transportation, or Distribution of Switchblade Knives"
---

# §1242. Introduction, manufacture for introduction, transportation or distribution in interstate commerce; penalty


Whoever knowingly introduces, or manufactures for introduction, into [interstate commerce](/usc/15/1241.md?p=a), or transports or distributes in [interstate commerce](/usc/15/1241.md?p=a), any [switchblade knife](/usc/15/1241.md?p=b), shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–623, § 2, Aug. 12, 1958, 72 Stat. 562.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the sixtieth day after Aug. 12, 1958, see section 6 of Pub. L. 85–623, set out as a note under section 1241 of this title.