---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1243"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1243"
heading: "Manufacture, sale, or possession within specific jurisdictions; penalty"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1243"
units:
  - "Chapter 29 — Manufacture, Transportation, or Distribution of Switchblade Knives"
---

# §1243. Manufacture, sale, or possession within specific jurisdictions; penalty


Whoever, within any Territory or possession of the United States, within Indian country (as defined in [section 1151 of title 18](/usc/18/1151.md)), or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States (as defined in [section 7 of title 18](/usc/18/7.md)), manufactures, sells, or possesses 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, § 3, 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.