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From: arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Lock picks and like that.
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 22:29:57 EDT
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> ......
> why it is illegal to possess bicycle spokes filed down and bent 
> in certain configurations, coat hangers with same adjectives, and other 
> assorted items (better known as lockpicks)? 
> 
> Since when is the ability to do something the same as having done it?
>
>                                                        -the venn buddhist

I don't know what state you are in, but here in California, the law
is as you would seem to like it.  It is illegal to have lock picks,
etc., with INTENT to commit a crime.  Simple posession is not enough.
I looked it up in the code when I was buying a set for myself.  However,
since these are state laws as far as I can tell, the law will vary.

		Ken