"It's a five-year-old swinging the bat, so you're most likely not going to get a fracture, but it's going to hurt." The amount of pain also depends on the style of police baton and what part of the baton made contact with your body.

Is it illegal to walk around with a nightstick?

There is no federal law that bans carrying an expandable baton . The only state laws that ban the use of expandable batons are California, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington D.C. Other than those states expandable batons are legal.

Can a police baton break bones?

To put it another way, “No,” the police baton was not designed exclusively to break bones; however, under extreme circumstances the type of force required — or the method upon which it may be applied — could result in usually unintended breaking of a bone.