Posted on 06/08/2009 9:14:52 AM PDT by thewarden
http://www.kniferights.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76&Itemid=150
US ATTEMPTS TO RE-DEFINE SWITCHBLADES – WOULD MAKE MOST POCKET KNIVES ILLEGAL
U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) has proposed revoking earlier rulings that assisted opening knives are not switchblades. The proposed new rule would not only outlaw assisted opening knives, its broad definition of a switchblade would also include one-handed opening knives and could be easily interpreted to cover most other pocket knives, even simple old-fashioned slip-joints.
Note that CBP's interpretation of the Federal Switchblade Act forms the basis for national, state and even local law and judicial rulings in many cases. This ruling by CBP is NOT limited to just imports. This WILL affect virtually everyone who carries a pocket knife, no matter the type!
(Excerpt) Read more at kniferights.org ...
What about tire irons?
What about box cutters?
they’ll be amputating your fists next, for society’s safety.
when knives are outlawed, only outlaws and Rachel Ray will have knives...
Outrageous.
Are we getting the impression that Government is frightened. What do they fear? Us!!!!!!!!!!!
great, a good reason to carry a machete on your hip
You posted in semi-jest, I know,
but a box cutter is operated with one hand...
What about pointed sticks?
What about sharpened CDs or DVDs?
The State and the Statist always fear their own citizens’ desire to be at liberty more than they fear external threats.
Not all the Leathermens...nooo!!!
if they’re 2 handed opening.. its ok!
so my swiss army knife I have carried for years and years (actually I have a number of them that I choose from to carry) is now on the endangered species list??? This is getting downright ridiculous!!
The no-tolerance policy that got a first-grader sent to the principle’s office because her mommy had included a butter knife in her lunchbox, this legislation will be the end of Swatch including the mini-knife, toothpick, tweezers-implement in the box with the watch.
I predict a run on ice-picks...
Government is either frightened by us or distrusts the people so much that it does not believe we can be trusted with knives or firearms.
Consequently, they are either contemptible or contemptuous of us.
I suspect it is the latter. Every step this administration takes sounds in tyranny.
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