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Under section 46.05(a)(3) of the Texas Penal Code, it is a felony to possess, manufacture, transport, repair, or sell a “prohibited weapon,” including a chemical dispensing device.

Chemical dispensing device means

a device, other than a small chemical dispenser sold commercially for personal protection, that is designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of dispensing a substance capable of causing an adverse psychological or physiological effect on a human being.

It’s hard to think of any substance that is not “capable of causing an adverse psychological or physiological effect on a human being.” Even water or air, in sufficient quantities

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