Borrowing strategy from NRA, activists quietly overturn knife restrictions across U.S.

The Amazon Post ^ | September 15, 2018 @ 7:43 PM | Todd C. Frankel

[jiggyboy]

Philadelphia is rated the second worst city in the country for this knife prohibition:

§10-820. Cutting Weapons in Public Places. [180]

(1) Definition.

Cutting Weapon. Any knife or other cutting instrument which can be used as a weapon that has a cutting edge similar to that of a knife. No tool or instrument commonly or ordinarily used in a trade, profession or calling shall be considered a cutting weapon while actually being used in the active exercise of that trade, profession or calling.

(2) Prohibited Conduct. No person shall use or possess any cutting weapon upon the public streets or upon any public property at any time.

(3) Penalty. The penalty for violation of this section shall be a fine of not less than three hundred (300) dollars and imprisonment of not less than ninety days.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/886840-philadelphia-knife-law

https://blog.knife-depot.com/knife-rights-releases-rankings-of-10-worst-anti-knife-cities/

[edwinland]

https://www.criminal-defense-law-nyc.com/blog/always-examine-gravity-knife

“The prosecutor asked the officer to demonstrate how he had flicked open the blade, as described in the officer’s sworn complaint: “deponent opened the knife with centrifugal force by flicking deponent’s wrist while holding the knife, thereby releasing the blade which locked in place by means of an automatic device that did not require manual locking.”

When I saw the officer use two hands to partially open the blade from the handle, where it had been snugly locked in the closed position, before his first flick, I knew my client was correct. I could enjoy the rest of the demonstration.

Holding the knife handle, the officer repeatedly whipped his wrist and forearm outward. Through the course of multiple flicks, the blade eventually rotated, at most, about 120 degrees, but never close to the 180-degree locked-open position. The officer tried multiple times, each time cheating from the partially open position. Each time with the same result.

[edwinland]

https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120521/new-york-city/seminary-student-sentenced-community-service-stop-and-frisk-plea-deal/

“Baltzer’s daytrip to Manhattan with his classmates from Baptist Bible College and Seminary in Clarks Summit, Penn., on March 27 was supposed to conclude, after visits to the Ground Zero, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Times Square, at Lincoln Center. Instead, it ended up in a Times Square jail, where Baltzer was hit with weapons possession charges for carrying two small knives, one he used to shave down sticks so kids at his camp could roast marshmallows.

An undercover cop spied a clasp dangling from Baltzer’s pocket that connected to a one-inch pocket knife. After he was stopped and frisked, cops repeatedly flicked the knife to see if it would open through centrifugal force. That would make it a gravity knife, and illegal. After several tries, cops flicked the knife open, and Baltzer was arrested.

That’s the same thing that happened to Michael Hotwagner, 30, a Muskegon, Mich., native who teaches Spanish in Greenpoint.”

[Fido969]

I bought some nice assist-open knives, until the switchblade law in this state was repealed a few years ago. Then I bought a nice stilleto, (the West Side Story kind) and a couple of other switchblades.

Just because I could.

[cyclotic]

Maryland is particularly insane. It’s illegal to carry a Bowie knife, notwithstanding that it’s very hard to definitively and legally describe exactly what constitutes a Bowie knife, but they’re still illegal.

One also may not carry a switchblade with the intent to do harm. OK, prove my intent.

[papertyger]

the prosecutor asked him, “Who tested the knife at the scene.” He and his partner, he said. Each of them.

I think his partner needs a new partner.

Spectacular!

I don't understand how police can keep their jobs after filing such obscenely fraudulent charges....

[W.]

It’s just a handy tool. A fancy little letter-opener.

If you want a fighting knife, a Fairbairn-Sykes will fill the bill, and they aren’t much more pricey.

[waterhill]

I just saw Crocidile Dundee’s cousin at the Lowe’s in Gun Barrel this morning...Or he was a descendant of Jim Bowie... I bet I’m a faster draw with my Kershaw Leek, lol

[imardmd1]

I can’t imagine that such an ambiguous law would survive a court test but who knows?

Could you afford the cost of a lawyer to contest a local village cop with a pocket J. P.?