Quote Originally Posted by prattw
Todd,

The organization holding the Burns Night, unlikely. But here in Las Vegas, for instance, the St. Andrews Society holds our Burns Night in a restaurant or club (The Italian-American Club, of all things, last year and this.) Some such venues have guards for such functions and they are apt to get nervous about an eleven inch blade. Blades being used in an obvious ceremony are generally exempt, but blades carried by attendees might.
So it's a question of acceptance by the facility hosting the function for you, since it seems you've got practically no carry restrictions in Vegas, or Nevada for that matter. Check out :

http://www.thehighroad.org/library/b...knifelaws.html

...and then check with your local PD for confirmation.

Bryan...I wandered into a 7/11 in Bozeman, MT one time with an 11-inch Bowie knife on my hip (I'd been camping and forgot about it). Nobody looked twice...