Knife Rights' Knife Owners' Protection Act Introduced in Congress

SacBee ^ | 18 November 2013 | Knife Rights

[smokingfrog]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Knife Owners' Protection Act, H.R.3478, has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Matt Salmon (AZ-05). H.R.3478 would protect the right of knife owners to travel throughout the U.S. without fear of prosecution under the myriad patchwork of state and local knife laws.

[smokingfrog]

[TheRhinelander]

> secure and safe transportation of knives through jurisdictions where the mere ownership of a certain type of knife is enough to bring arrest and criminal prosecution.

Like NYC.

[Pearls Before Swine]

NYC?

How long is too long? 2 1/2 inches?

[yarddog]

Some state knife laws have been really badly written. I remember years ago, reading the Florida statute on concealed carry and one of the things forbidden was “Buck Knifes”. That surely meant one of the Buck 110 lockback knives, but it simply said Buck.

However it was interpreted, it was a bad law and I suspect has been repealed or re-written.

[apillar]

I remember a story a couple years ago in some legal journal about a legal interpretation that said knives are protected under the 2nd amendment just the same as guns because “arms” as defined during the time the 2nd was written meant far more than just guns, “arms” were essentially anything you might need to effectively defend your property and community, in the terms of the day that meant muskets, musket balls, gunpowder, bayonet, sword, knives even a cannon if you could afford one.

[pallis]

My trusty trapper goes everywhere with me. You never know when you are going to come across roadkill to skin and eat.

[petro45acp]

This thing was designed for NYC and gov buildings where more than 2.5 inches = “weapon”

http://emersonknives.com/product-category/knives/cqc-14/

KYPD

[Lazamataz]

How long is too long? 2 1/2 inches?

Oh dear.

(glancing down)

[Cololeo]

So now we’re going to have poorly written Law A that will supersede and protect you from poorly written Law B, which was poorly written to clarify poorly written Law C, which is peripherally connected to poorly written Law D, which was never enforced because poorly written Law E has conflicting language, which still leaves spoons and forks in unregulated limbo.

Ayn Rand was certainly prophetic.

[smokingfrog]

[GeronL]

KOPA?

[Farnsworth]

Knife, bat, axe handle, pipe, chain, hammer ..... whats next, you got a licence to have them arms? why do you need two, makes you twice as dangerous...

[Venturer]

I went to a motorcycle toy run once in Baltimore.

At the gate they were checking for knives. I had my pocket knife I always carry in my pocket. They made me walk all the way back to where my bike was to place it in the tour pack.

I got into the toy run area and one of the first things I spotted was a vendor selling knives.

[JoeProBono]

[elcid1970]

Annoying Orange believes in the RKBKn every time he shouts “KNIFE!!!”

;^)

[smokingfrog]

[Ramius]

Sword Ping!

Not really a sword item, but something related to edged weapons... I don’t know what this proposed law is about in detail, but in general I certainly would like to see some deregulation of knives in several key ways.

[andyk]

We are so backwards now. We have ceded the idea that government is limited in power and jurisdiction. We now see government as something all powerful that can only be restricted by law.

[Chance Hart]

About an inch or so TOO LONG

[Teacher317]

Obama’s beloved Islamists used box cutters to kill 3,000 innocent people and nearly kill 75,000. The blade on a typical box cutter is barely an inch and a half.