If I really have the right to bear arms--

[Shandris]

20. Back in the 90's, probably...94 or 95 I'd say, I saw a long-haired man in a trenchcoat...

...walking down our local mall with a sword on his back. It was in a scabbard, but it was unmistakably a sword. He looked odd (trenchcoat coupled with a black, silver-ring-trimmed-with-tassle stetson and black fringe suede boots; later, it would become 'Columbine wear' but that was still years away), but not overly intimidating or anything.

Still, it was the only time I can recall seeing someone carrying something like that. Now, I know people used to carry those 12" Rambo knives (that's what I call them, I don't know...its the one people bought that had all the stuff in the handle? Yeah. That.) and eventually there was an ordinance against them specifically, but I don't think it covered swords. It may have, though.