Definition of "nunchaku" []

• A pair of hardwood sticks joined by a chain or cord and used as a weapon. Often used in the plural. (noun)

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• "Cuomo, 554 F.3d 56 (2009), the panel considered (as relevant here) a claim by a New York attorney that a state law prohibiting possession of a chuka stick (also known as nunchaku, a device used in martial arts consisting of two sticks joined by a rope or chain) violated his Second Amendment right to bear arms."
• "Another novel feature of the Maloney case is that it is not a challenge to the constitutionality of a gun control law; rather, it targets a New York state law on weapons control, so far as that law applies to a "chuka stick" (or "nunchaku")."
• "Perhaps the legislature can restrict all firearms so long as they permit some kind of “arms” to be carried — nunchaku perhaps?"