Currently in Kansas you can carry concealed or open almost any kind of weapon. Knife or gun withou any kind of permit.

I would love to help, but unfortunately, only official legal advice from a qualified lawyer or para-legal in the state of Kansas would be able to offer you the correct information. Even current knife laws which (to some) appear cut and dried, are often interpreted with some liberties in a court of law.

CALL YOUR P.O AND ASK HIM

I recently moved from Louisiana to Kansas, so my knowledge of Kansas law can only be called general even though I am studying up on it. I think I can definitively answer your question though (I realize I’m some months behind since you asked it, but the information should be useful to others as well.) Though another person who answered your question suggested speaking with your probation officer about it, in what appeared to be a bit of mild sarcasm, it’s still a good idea. The question should NOT be in the format of “I’ve got this big folding knife I’ve been carrying around in my pocket, and I just wanted to make sure it’s not in violation of my probation.” It should be more like “I’m not planning to possess or carry any weapons, I just want to be unambiguously sure about these things so I can give anything that could cause me trouble a wide berth.” Also, you should examine whatever papers you were given as part of your probation registration. For pretty much any state those papers–or an accompanying rule sheet or rule book–will be given to you to put you on notice of what you are and aren’t allowed to do. Generally, they usually prohibit the person on probation from carrying or possessing any weapon of any kind. And those rules can be creatively enforced, as once you’re on probation or parole supervision, your backside generally belongs to the state until such time as you are off supervision, and in those matters you simply don’t have the due process you would have if you were accused of a substantive crime. It might sound unfair, but if you’re on supervision of either kind, you’re still “in custody” of the state, it’s just a less restrictive custody. Infractions can send you to or back to prison and there’s little recourse if you were remanded unfairly or without justification. Probation and parole are considered privileges and something you have no standing to complain about, if you break the rules and get locked up. The best rule for probation or parole is if you’re even vaguely unsure whether something is permitted or not, assume it isn’t. I spent years on parole supervision after a decade in prison, and contrary to the stereotype of bullies looking for excuses to bounce you to prison, every single parole officer I had or otherwise interacted with was a professional who liked nothing more than a parolee or probationer who followed the rules, avoided drama, and avoided drama or trouble like the plague. P.O.s just about everywhere work with a huge caseload of persons they have to supervise and every single boneheaded incorrigible or troublemaker just made the workload heavier. And pretty much everyone I’ve known–including myself–who got violated and locked up accomplished it entirely on their own behalf with stupid or deliberate violations of prohibited acts. To repeat, if you’re unsure whether or not an act can get you bounced, assume it will. And if you refuse to do your homework, or if you knowingly violate one of the rules, and get locked up don’t bother whining to your fellow convicts about your cruel unfair probation officer. They don’t want to hear it. They know better, and nobody in prison is more unpopular than a crybaby who whines about everything and blames all their misfortune on others. There are no shoulders to cry on in prison. Unless you’re trying to become someone’s girlfriend.

I’m speaking generally on legal principles. To get more Kansas-specific you should research the annotated criminal code statutes and case law decisions governing weapon possession and carry. Generally, if Kansas law bans the carrying of metal knuckles of any kind I believe it would probably make no difference whether those knucks were attached to a knife blade or not. If you try to narrow it down to whether a knuckle-duster knife like the famous 1918 trench model is a knife or metal knuckles, well the answer is that it is both. And one of those things is prohibited for carry upon the person. Just because a conventional knife is legal to carry, it doesn’t make it legal to carry the knucks the knife blade is attached to. I’d have to review the law in detail to say for sure, but I believe it would also prohibit the same sort of item made of polycarbonate or glass-nylon or any other rigid non-metal material. There’s almost always some amount of ambiguity in the written language of any law covering any subject, and such ambiguity has landed many people in prison because they made foolish assumptions about which way that ambiguity would fall. As far as selling a knife that’s illegal to carry, well there’s a wide gulf between what’s legal to possess and what’s legal to carry. And never, but never assume that just because an item is available to sell that it’s also legal to possess or carry. Especially if you’re talking about mail order. In 90% of cases it’s the responsibility of the person purchasing the item to make sure it’s legal for them to have in their home jurisdiction. It’s your freedom on the line. Consider it an intelligence test; if you fail or refuse to do your homework and end up in jail, well it’s a small clue that you failed the test.