But nunchucks, (sometimes referred to as nunchaku), were once used by as many as 200 police departments nationwide in the 1980s and 1990s to “more compassionately” and “more safely ...

James Maloney, an amateur martial artist, had been fighting the case pro se for nearly 15 years. In that time, it made a cameo in Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearing.

A 1970s ban on nunchucks was lifted in Arizona on Friday. Nunchucks were taken off the state's list of deadly weapons, making it no longer a felony risk to carry them in public.

A federal court has ruled New York’s ban on nunchucks unconstitutional more than 40 years after the state outlawed the weapon. The weapons are still banned in California as of Tuesday.