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| | Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News |
 | | As a youth on Maui, Mark Tolentino remembers when he and his friends would practice handling the butterfly knife, hoping to become as good with it as their elders. |
 | | To them, the butterfly knife, or balisong, was part of their Filipino heritage, an instrument viewed not as a deadly weapon that must be banned -- as the state Legislature is proposing -- but as a cultural and martial-arts tool taught from one generation to the next. |
 | | Currently, state law does not prohibit people from owning butterfly knives and other deadly weapons such as dirks, daggers, fljacks and billy clubs, but it makes it illegal to conceal them in any form or to use them in a crime. |
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