michael kosta finds those citizens in his recurring segment, thank me later. >> hi, i'm michael kosta've loved nunchucks. but up until this year, i could have been arrested for even carrying my chucks down the streets of new york city. i sat down with the hero who changed that law. and you? you can thank me later. ow! >> i'm jim maloney. i'm the lawyer who recently was able to get the nunchuck prohibition in new york overturned on constitutional grounds. >> you made nunchucks legal in new york? >> actually it's pronounced nunchucks. >> right nunchucks. why are you so obsessed with nunchucks? >> they were a big part of my life for many years so i'm passionate about my right to have them. >> how did this start? >> shortly after the martial arts series featuring bruce lee became popular, a lot of the kids including myself started playing around with nunchucks and the legislation got fearful they would be used by gangs to terrorize people, you know, mugging them, so the legislature just decided to ban them completely. the law went into effect september 1, 1974. in the years since then, th