---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 229C"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "229C"
heading: "Individual self-defense devices"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/229C"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 11B — Chemical Weapons"
---

# §229C. Individual self-defense devices


Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit any individual self-defense device, including those using a pepper spray or chemical mace.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title II, § 201(a), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–869.)