DEDICATION: This site is dedicated to the memory of Archibald R. Murray, Esq. (1933-2001) (photo at left), the only New York public official to have openly objected to the proposed ban on nunchaku (“chuka sticks”), which went into effect in 1974 and lasted 44 years.

In March 2018, nine months before the decision in Maloney v. Singas (which held New York’s nunchaku ban to be unconstitutional), I created a Wikipedia page about Murray. So far, it’s the only Wikipedia page I’ve ever created.

I first heard of Murray in August 2004 after scrolling through a roll of microfilm at the Nassau County Supreme Court Library to find the memorandum he had written 30 years earlier (while head of New York’s Division of Criminal Justice Services) urging Governor Malcolm Wilson NOT to sign the nunchaku ban into law. Some years later I learned that Murray, soon after writing that memo, left that position to become a historic leader of The Legal Aid Society.

The Wikipedia page I created for Arch Murray is here.