Arizonans in good standing are allowed to carry guns in public without licenses. But go out of the house with your nunchucks, those exotic Okinawan peasant weapons popular in movies and video games, and you’re breaking the law.

It seemed to Arizona lawmakers like a classic case of overcriminalization, and they stepped in. GOP Gov. Doug Ducey has just signed a law repealing the state’s longstanding ban on nunchucks, or nunchaku. The rare implements, which supposedly descend from farm tools used to fight at close quarters centuries ago, had been placed on a list of deadly weapons — including machine guns and explosives — that are a felony to manufacture or possess.