Massachusetts residents are now allowed to arm themselves with switchblades after a 67-year-old ban was overturned following the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 decision on gun rights and the Second Amendment.

Tuesday’s Massachusetts Supreme Court decision applied new guidance from the Bruen decision, which held that citizens have the right to carry firearms in public for self-defense. The Supreme Court concluded that switchblades do not deserve special restrictions under the Second Amendment.

“Nothing about the physical properties of switchblades suggests that they are particularly dangerous,” wrote Judge Serge Georges Jr.

Only a handful of states have banned switchblades.

The case stems from a domestic dispute in 2020 in which police seized an orange firearm-shaped knife with a spring-loaded blade. The defendant was charged with carrying a dangerous weapon.

In his appeal, he argued that the blade was protected by the Second Amendment.

In its decision, the Supreme Court reviewed the colonial-era history of knives and pocket knives, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s lead to focus on whether gun restrictions are consistent with that country’s “historic tradition” of gun control.

Georges concluded that the broad category that includes switchblades is “weapons” under the Second Amendment. “Thus, carrying switchblades is presumptively protected by the plain language of the Second Amendment,” he wrote.

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell criticized the ruling.

“This case shows the difficult position the Supreme Court put our state courts in with the Bruen decision, and I am disappointed in today’s outcome,” Campbell said in a statement. “The fact is that switchblades are dangerous weapons and the legislature made a common-sense decision to pass a law prohibiting people from carrying such knives.”

The Bruen ruling has upended gun laws across the country. In Hawaii, a federal court applied the Bruen ruling to the butterfly knife ban and found it unconstitutional. The case is still pending trial.

In California, a federal judge struck down a state law that banned the possession of baton-like weapons, overturning his previous ruling three years ago that upheld the ban on batons and similar blunt objects. The judge ruled that the ban “unconstitutionally violates the Second Amendment rights of American citizens.”

In its decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Court also cited a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that Americans have the right to own guns at home for self-defense.