Nunchucks: Why are they illegal in CA?

I will neither confirm nor deny my possession of wooden nunchucks at my residence in California. But I will say this: they are about as dangerous as a baseball bat. Guns are legal in California. Knives, pitchforks, sharpened sticks are legal in California. But there is one weapon so amazing, so dangerous, so concealable, to which there is NO defense, that a state law is required to keep it under control. Even the Sansetsukon, which is just a pair of nunchucks with an extra nunchuck on one end, is legal in CA. But the almighty nunchuck is forbidden. Looking at the picture of Bruce Lee, though, sort of helps you imagine what these people were thinking. Keep in mind Bruce Lee is from California, and he can actually play ping pong with a pair of nunchucks. (I'm told that this video isn't real, so watch this one instead; he whips them out at 1:20)

Try and remember what it was like in the dark ages when you could legally tie two sticks together. You're leaving your friend's party at midnight, walking to your car, when a comical accent says behind you, "Giv-a me all you money!" You turn around, and a vaguely Asian mugger is brandishing nunchucks at you. You try and defend yourself using your gun, but as everyone knows, nunchucks repel bullets. Your knife is equally useless. They find your body the next morning, covered with nunchuck-shaped gashes.

This law is particularly ironic considering that, according to wikipedia, nunchucks were probably adapted as a weapon (from a farming tool) because of a ban on edged weapons. Irony, thy name is California Penal Code. Next they'll ban blunt objects longer than 3 feet. All trees will be burnt., all femurs broken.

By the way, if you haven't looked at the wiki page for the Sansetsukon, or the bruce lee video do so now. They're pretty cool.