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Beijing Customers Can Buy Knives Only With ID Card 18:38 28/01/2012 BEIJING, January 28 (RIA Novosti) Tags: Beijing, China Customers in large supermarkets of Beijing has to show their ID cards to buy knives from Saturday, Chinese Fachi wanbao newspaper reported. The requirement to register all knives' buyers has been initiated by city's public security agencies. From now on a customer who wants to buy a knife or any other blade has to tell supermarket's special officer his or her name, ID card number, home address and purposes of knife use. Supermarkets are prohibited to sell knives to teenagers and...

Border Police at the entrance to the Patriarch’s Cave Tuesday morning foiled a terrorist attack by an Arab who tried to stab them to death. No one was injured. The terrorist, described as being in his 30s, aroused the suspicion of Border Police, who asked him to stop for a security check. He then pulled out his knife and tried to attack them before being overpowered. Security officials are questioning the attacker. Attempts to stab Jews at the Patriarchs’ Cave have become more common recently, and terrorist activity is on the increase in all of Judea and Samaria. Soldiers prevented...

LAS VEGAS — There’s a new piece of legislation in Olympia aimed at defining a “switchblade” knife that contains what appears to be a contradictory, or at least confusing, definition that has some Second Amendment activists puzzled. This column will have a chance to speak to several of them during the next four days here at the annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show. They’re knife makers, whose wares will be just as much on display as new guns and other gear. Senate Bill 6179 says this about switchblades: "Switchblade knife" means any knife with a blade that is...

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa -- Council Bluffs police said a blade-wielding, would-be robber picked the wrong drugstore to hold up. He ended up getting a fist in the face from the pharmacist. Pharmacist Bill Shipley encountered a man wearing a black stocking over his head on Wednesday morning. "At first, I thought it was the delivery man delivering our medications that we get every morning," said Shipley. Shipley, who works at Union Pharmacy, said the man told him he had a gun and demanded hydromorphone. "It's a pain medication," said Shipley. "If you abuse it, you can get high similar to...

A man is stabbed to death after breaking into someone's home. State police say Edward Crowley forced his way into the home on Keith Whitley Boulevard in Sandy Hook early Sunday morning. The homeowner, Jamie Dillon, then stabbed Crowley when the two got into a fight. Police did not charge Dillon and say it appears he acted in self defense. The case will be presented to a grand jury.

Gilbert, AZ --(Ammoland.com)- Indiana State Senator Jim Tomes has a holiday gift for us, Senate Bill SB06 which would repeal Indiana’s antiquated and irrational ban on the sale and possession of switchblades. The bill is supported by Senator Brent Steele, Chair of the Corrections, Criminal and Civil Matters Committee that will hear the bill, and Senator Johnny Nugent. Knife Rights will be present to testify in support of SB06 at the bill’s first hearing on January 10th. If you live, work or travel in Indiana, please contact your Senator and ask them to support SB06. You can locate your Senator,...

One of my friends has an old vintage knife that he wanted me to look up for him. He does not have a computer or access to the internet and wanted me to see what I could find out. The knife is in nice condition and is marked "Premium stock knife" on one blade, another blade is marked Germany and inscribed with "EARNST G AHREUS", and the smallest blade has a small eagle with an arrow. He said that he has had it for years and was just curious about it since he has never seen another one like it....

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles police officers opened fire on a suspect armed with a machete. He attacked another man inside a food truck, and then smashed the vehicle into two parked cars. The incident happened on Saturday shortly before 4 a.m. at Beverly Boulevard and Berendo Street in the Westlake District. Investigators say the victim was eating outside the taco truck when he was attacked by a machete wielding suspect. The man with the machete then dragged the victim into the food truck. The two employees inside managed to escape before the suspect took off and crashed the...

EL PASO - El Paso police said that a man who tried to rob several people at a bar got stabbed, instead. This happened last night at the AMF bar on Montana in East El Paso. According to police, a 20-year-old Hispanic man pulled out a gun and demanded wallets and cell phones from six customers who were in the bar's patio. Then, the customers attacked the gunman and one of them stabbed him with a pocketknife. Police later discovered that the robber was using a BB gun that resembles a semi-automatic weapon. We're told the person who stabbed the...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO -- A woman fatally stabbed a San Francisco man after he allegedly broke into her Bayview home and tried to choke her, police said Monday.</p> <p>The woman, whom police have not identified, heard noises in her home on the 700 block of Kirkwood Avenue at about 4:47 a.m. Sunday and encountered Anthony Payne, 40, who tried to choke her, police said.</p>

PORTLAND – An employee of a Chinese restaurant in Southeast Portland fended off a would-be robber with a butcher knife late Thursday night. Portland police said the man came into the China Garden, at 14908 SE Powell Boulevard, just before midnight and told Barbara Lane to “move back” from the cash register. Lane armed herself with the knife and replied, “No, you move back,” according to police. The suspect then tried to grab the register, but Lane struck him and he ran off. “I smacked him across the wrist with the knife when he couldn’t get away from the cash...

Gilbert, AZ --(Ammoland.com)- On Thursday, September 8, 2011, the Public Safety Committee of the Boston City Council held a public hearing concerning the potential licensing of businesses that sell knives. According to the supporters of the proposed license, the action is needed as a means to address the “ever increasing knife violence in Boston.” Knife Rights was represented by Jim Wallace, Executive Director of Gun Owners’ Action League, who was also representing his own organization. The politicians attending were clearly firm in their conviction that action must be taken, some scapegoat must be found. There were grieving parents and their...

Emerson Knives, Inc. has been building custom knives for the Navy SEALs since its founding in 1979. This month, Emerson is memorializing the SEALs whose helicopter was shot down by insurgents in Afghanistan on August 5th with a commemorative Emerson CQC-6 combat knife with a blade constructed with steel from the World Trade Center. The Emerson CQC-6 design has been a sidearm staple for the SEALs since the 1980s. The knife’s letters, CQC, mean “Close Quarter Combat,” and the “6” refers to SEAL Team 6. According to Ernest Emerson,

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Logan County man was killed outside a Walmart store after he allegedly attempted to rob another man with a knife. The would-be victim now faces murder charges after he shot the alleged robber dead. Shortly before 5 p.m. Monday, David Abbott, 37, of Chapmanville approached a man outside the Walmart store in the Fountain Place shopping center on Corridor G, according to Police Chief E.K. Harper of the Logan City Police Department. Abbott threatened Jesus Canul, 26, of Logan, with a knife and attempted to rob him, according to Harper. Sometime during the confrontation, Canul pulled...

MINNEAPOLIS -- The suspect in a stabbing death in Minneapolis was released without charges Monday. Twenty-two-year-old Justin Jackson, of Minneapolis, was stabbed just after 7:00 p.m. Friday in the 3700 block of Chicago Avenue South. Officers arrested the suspect near the scene of the stabbing. The man was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center for treatment of a head injury. Minneapolis Police say their investigation turned up witnesses and video from a bus stop indicating the suspect acted in self-defense. Authorities say the video shows the suspect sitting at the bus stop when he was suddenly attacked by several men,...

Six people, including three children, have been killed in a knife attack on the usually peaceful island of Jersey. Police say a man, two women and the children were attacked at a flat in a secluded part of the capital, St Helier, on Sunday afternoon. A 30-year-old man, who had emergency surgery after the attack, has been arrested in connection with the deaths. Police have not named the dead but say they lived in Jersey. Witnesses believe they were all related. Officers were called to Upper Midvale Road at 15:00 BST on Sunday after reports of an incident at a...

A knife-weilding Arab on Monday approached a border police station near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron and advanced on the officers there. The officers confronted the terrorist at gunpoint and began "standard procedures" to safely arrest the man, who was appaerently so alarmed by the forcefulness of the response that he surrendered without incident. Officers disarmed the man, arrested him, and handed him over the Palestinian Authority security forces for questioning. During his initial interrogation by Israeli authorities the terrorist admitted that it was his aim to "stab soldiers."

On January 20th, 2010, Abdulrahim Sulaiman - then 23-year-old Connecticut man entered the main lobby of Tappan Zee Elementary School in Piermont before 8 a.m. bearing a gravity knife. He claimed to be lost and needing directions to Fort Dix. He also requested permission to sleep in the school parking lot after refusing to leave the school grounds. He was charged with third-degree criminal trespass and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, both misdemeanors then released on $5,000 cash bail. Read it all on JihadWatch or RefugeeResettlementWatch archives. The warning signs were all there. Today, he was charged with attempted...

GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) -- Police say a Southern California man stuck a butter knife into his belly in a failed bid at self-surgery to remove a painful hernia. Glendale police Sgt. Tom Lorenz says officers called to the 63-year-old man's home Sunday night found him naked on an outside patio lounge chair with a 6-inch butter knife sticking out of his stomach.

Hate crime and battery charges have been filed against three teens accused of hurling anti-gay insults at a man and threatening him with a knife in a confrontation that began in a bathroom at Chicago’s Millennium station. Mack Heard, 17, and Kendrick L. Towner, 18, both of Richton Park, were ordered held in lieu of $50,000 bail each when they appeared today before Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil on a felony hate crime charge and a misdemeanor count of aggravated battery in a public place.

BAINBRIDGE, Wash. -- A suspected burglar was shot three times Monday morning in Bainbridge by a bystander who police said acted in self defense. Around 8:00 a.m. Monday, a homeowner found the suspect rummaging through cabinets in his house on Stetson Avenue. The homeowner said he confronted the suspect, who grabbed a large knife and began moving toward the homeowner. The homeowner told police he ran outside and armed himself with a large claw hammer as the suspect attempted to reach for his children. According to police, the suspect fled the home and began yelling at a man in a...

LAS VEGAS -- A woman stabbed a man in self defense in downtown Las Vegas Monday following an argument, Metro police said. According to police, the incident began when a man carrying a knife attacked the woman's friend at Wyoming Avenue and Main Street. She somehow took the knife from the man and stabbed him, causing minor injuries, police said. Authorities were not sure of the relationship between the three people involved, other than saying the two women are friends. The man was cited by officers, but no other charges were filed against those involved.

I know it’s only acting but it still makes me feel good…..

YORK, Pa.—A central Pennsylvania man who said he acted in self-defense when he stabbed a teenager to death last year has been acquitted of all charges.

Not long after a man stabbed two men to death on the No. 2 train with a kitchen knife last year, the NYPD stepped up its enforcement of the city's illegal knife ban, and Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance got Paragon and Home Depot to stop selling illegal switchblades. Former Pulino's chef Nate Appleman was caught up in the crackdown, as was artist John Copeland, who was arrested in October for allegedly carrying a gravity knife in a belt clip as he walked home in the East Village. Now Copeland has filed a lawsuit to block these kinds of arrests, and...

Knife rights just got a boost in the state of New Hampshire. Gov. John Lynch just signed into law a bill that provides state preemption on knives. From the Knife Rights release: New Hampshire Governor Signs Knife Rights Preemption Bill June 9, 2011: New Hampshire Governor John Lynch has signed into law the Knife Rights backed Knife Law Preemption Bill, HB 544. New Hampshire becomes the third state in the nation to enact Knife Law Preemption. Congratulations to NH Rep. Jenn Coffey who sponsored this bill and who worked tirelessly with her colleagues, local advocates and our lobbyist to ensure...

Knives and lipstick aren’t two items that usually go together very well (unless of course they’re combined to make one of those cool lipstick knives), but somehow Rep. Jenn Coffey embodies both of these by being a woman and the ultimate champion of knife rights. So, who is this Jenn Coffey? She is a representative in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and the author of a new book titled “Knives, Lipstick, and Liberty: One Woman’s Journey.” In the middle of last month, New Hampshire governor John Lynch signed her bill into law that according to Knife Rights means “New...

<p>DHAKA, Bangladesh - A 40-year-old Bangladeshi woman cut off a man's penis during an alleged attempted rape and took it to a police station as evidence, police in a remote part of the country said Monday.</p> <p>"As he tried to rape her, the lady cut his penis off with a knife. She then wrapped up the penis in a piece of polythene and brought it to the Jhalakathi police station as evidence of the crime," police chief Abul Khaer said.</p>

The New Hampshire Senate joined the state house in passing a knife law preemption bill yesterday, leaving only the signature by the governor to officially make the bill law. "I hope to see this move quickly but there is no guarantee we will be done by the BLADE Show. I hope so!" said New Hampshire State Representative Jenn Coffey (pictured holding her Kershaw knife in her regular job as an EMT), the champion of the bill known as HB 544. Coffey said both the state senate and house passed the bill unanimously. "I think that is a first nationwide" for...

May 18, 2011: New Hampshire Representative Jenn Coffey's Knife Rights backed Knife Law Preemption Bill, HB 544, has been unanimously passed by the NH Senate and has now been unanimously conformed by the House. It is now off to the Governor. Thanks to everyone who wrote in support of this bill. The finish line is very near. Rep. Jenn Coffey's bill simply adds "and knives" in three places to the existing New Hampshire firearms preemption law. Click to read HB 544. Knife Rights' NH lobbyist, Robert Clegg, had earlier testified at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in support of the...

Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert has signed the Knife Rights backed Knife Law Preemption Bill, HB 271, making Utah the nation's second state to enact Knife Law Preemption. Knife Rights would like to thank the bill's chief sponsor, Representative Ryan D. Wilcox and the Senate sponsor, Senator Allen M. Christensen, for their support. Knife Rights appreciates Governor Herbert's signing the bill promptly. We'd also like to thank the Utah Shooting Sport Council for all their support during our lobbying effort. Knife Rights Chairman, Doug Ritter, said, "we are very pleased to have Utah become the second state in the nation...

Gilbert, AZ --(Ammoland.com)- Sandy Froman, past president of the National Rifle Association and one of the nation’s foremost Second Amendment activists, will be the keynote speaker at Knife Rights’ Second Annual Sharper Future Awards Breakfast to be held June 11th during BLADE Show in Atlanta, Georgia (at the Waverly Renaissance Hotel). Froman’s speech is titled: “How To Win a Knife Fight–Lessons Learned in the Crucible of the Second Amendment” Besides her continued involvement with NRA as a member of its Board of Directors with a lifetime appointment to the Executive Council, she is a past president and a current trustee...

CAMDEN, N.J. - April 30, 2011 (WPVI) -- Police in Camden say a gas station clerk killed a man who tried to rob him.

CONCORD – Gun owners turned out in force Wednesday to support the concept of a bill that would end mandatory licenses to carry a concealed pistol or revolver, loaded or unloaded, but not necessarily the bill's content. The bills would allow most people to carry a concealed weapon without a license. Exemptions would be for convicted felons or those with a history of mental illness or violent behavior. Supporters said House Bill 330 (click to view status and text)re-enforces second amendment rights and decriminalizes the actions of law-abiding citizens without empowering criminals. However, while many spoke in favor of the...

Oregon teen stabs himself to death on stage during open mic nightPublished: Monday, April 18, 2011 BEND, Ore. -- Open mic night ended in tragedy as 19-year-old Kipp Rusty Walker took his own life Thursday night at a coffee house. While the scene shocked patrons, one of Walker’s friends, who did not want to be named, told a local television station he saw it coming. "I've been preparing for it for a while. I'm sad about it, but I think I'm in shock -- it's like a whirlwind of emotions," Walker's friend told KZTV. Walker was playing the keyboard for...

A man who allegedly attacked an elderly, blind and disabled relative was stabbed and killed Sunday by a neighbor who came to the elderly man's defense, officials and witnesses said. San Antonio police Sgt. Tina Jones said the fight between the two neighbors began just before 4 p.m. in the driveway of the elderly man's East Side home in the 4200 block of Kilrea Drive. The call first came in as family violence, Jones said, and when police arrived they found the elderly man's relative, believed to be in his 40s, dead inside the house where both lived. The man...

Maine lawmakers on Wednesday approved legalizing switchblades for people with one arm, moving close to becoming the first state to make such an exception to laws that ban use of the spring-action knives. Backers of the measure say legalizing switchblades would eliminate a need for one-armed people to be forced to open folding knives with their teeth in emergencies. The bill to allow amputees and other one-armed people to carry the quick-opening knives cleared Maine's Senate on Wednesday after passing the House on Tuesday, Senate officials said. Until now, Maine banned the use of switchblades by anyone. In most states,...

Lubbock police on Monday continued investigating a stabbing after they say a man defended himself against an attacker with a tire iron. Jeff Chapman, who turned 29 on Saturday, suffered life threatening injuries after the older man stabbed him just before 12:30 a.m. Sunday at the victim’s residence in the 5300 block of Avenue G, according to police. Sgt. Jonathan Stewart said investigators believed Chapman went to 50-year-old David Rincon’s house to confront him and then started assaulting him with a tire iron. They believed Rincon stabbed Chapman in self-defense. Stewart said he couldn’t release the details of why Chapman...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Owning and carrying a knife is the right of every American citizen and Utahn, says an Ogden lawmaker. That is why Rep. Ryan Wilcox, R-Ogden, is sponsoring House Bill 271, which prohibits counties and cities from creating ordinances regulating the use of knives. HB 271 was passed unanimously Thursday by the Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Standing Committee and now goes before the Senate floor for further consideration. Wilcox said some of his constituents who are sportsmen came to him about concerns they had after learning some municipalities in neighboring states had banned certain types...

was deported 10 years ago... but never left the country Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro, an illegal immigrant, was charged in the pair of attacks blocks apart on Thursday night that left three people dead and three others injured, Police Chief Doug Keen said. Brenda Ashcraft, 56, and her son William Ashcraft, 37, were shot and killed in the first attack shortly after 7pm on Thursday. A 34-year-old woman was injured and remains hospitalised, and a 15-year-old girl was treated and released. In the second attack, 48-year-old Julio Cesar Ulloa was shot and killed, and a 77-year-old woman suffered head wounds...

For better for worse, some of Arizona's laws are cutting edge. But this law has us asking -- common sense or asking for trouble? Last summer, the Arizona Legislature made it legal for people to carry a knife everywhere in the state. D'Alton Holder makes and ships knives to all 50 states and more than 40 countries. His pocketknife is like his wallet. He says he uses it everyday. Sometimes just to cut sandpaper or clean his fingernails -- to Holder, knives are tools, not necessarily weapons. "I think where you separate what's a weapon and what's a tool is...

<p>Mobster wisdom tells us never to bring a knife to a gun fight. But what does political wisdom say about bringing a gun to a knife fight?</p> <p>That’s exactly what Barack Obama said he would do to counter Republican attacks “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said at a Philadelphia fundraiser Friday night. “Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”</p>

Yesterday morning’s fatal shooting of a knife-wielding man by Bellevue police at a Chevron gas station has this morning’s Seattle Times and on-line Seattle PI.com reader feedback pages jammed with comments reacting to the incident, which may have been captured on the store’s security video. It is being reported by the Times that the 25-year-old man declared that he was “taking the gas station hostage.” He then reportedly went outside, confronted two officers with the knife raised over his head and several shots were fired. The man died at the scene. This column has on many occasions discussed Washington State’s...

FORT MYERS, FL- A Fort Myers man wakes up early in the morning and remembers he left expensive tools in his SUV. He goes out to lock it and finds a man sitting in it. Fort Myers resident Hank Free says,"The door was open like this, and he was in there, and I came around here and I really surprised him." Free says he was surprised too. It was 2:30 in the morning and a stranger was sitting in his SUV. "I said what are you doing in my truck." Deputies say 19 year old Austin Yeomans, clutching a bag...

Zero tolerance common sense. UPDATE: School responds, I Google. On its face, this looks like it’s an asinine decision which is probably the product of a culture that makes lawsuits possible in every breath we take. How else to explain what the school principal has done here? It’s either the school’s fear of a lawsuit, or a total lack of common sense among the school’s leadership, or there’s something we don’t know about all this that hasn’t shown up in the media reports. I’m not discounting that third possibility, but based on what we know from media reports, this is...

A group of would-be robbers apparently messed with the wrong man. Spokane police responded to North Regal Street and East Wabash Avenue about 3 p.m. Thursday for the report of a stabbing.

I'm changing reserve assignments to the DC area and am hoping somebody can tell me what restrictions exist on carry of concealed blades (since I can't carry my Sigma).

In Texas, it's a misdemeanor offense to carry an illegal knife, which includes daggers, Bowie knives, swords, spears, throwing stars and any knife with a blade over 5 1/2 inches. Switchblade knives are illegal not only to carry, but to possess, sell or make. But that could change if knife rights lobbyists - who've had major victories making knife laws less strict in New Hampshire and Arizona this year - roll back some the state's provisions they claim are out-dated and arbitrary. Texas would be a "natural step" for lobbyists looking to change knife laws, according to the group, Knife...

Why is the Buck 110 knife one of the most sought after knives? The first word that ran through my mind when I opened the blade of this Buck knife and heard the lock click, was "Solid". That was back in 1980 ---------------------------------------------------------- The Buck 110 knife is made with brass bolsters and liners. Buck describes the handle material as "natural woodgrain" which I think is the trade name for a certain color of high quality wood laminate. The handle scales are attractive and tough, and they're pinned to the handles. ---------------------------------------------------------- The 3 3/4" clip point blade of this...

By assigning knife regulations to its legislature, the state of Arizona has eliminated a patchwork of conflicting local laws and become what a report in The New York Times calls “a knife carrier’s dream, a place where everything from a samurai sword to a switchblade can be carried without a quibble.” Arizona’s transformation, and the recent lifting of a ban on switchblades, stilettos, dirks and daggers in New Hampshire, has given new life to the knife rights lobby, the little-known cousin of the more politically potent gun rights movement. A main driver behind this “transformation” is Knife Rights, “a membership...