The Governor now has 10 days (excluding Sunday) to sign or veto the bill, or allow it to become law without his signature.
While Gov. Cuomo vetoed the previous two overwhelmingly passed similar bills (2016 & 2017), in significant part due to the opposition of New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. who has championed his prosecutions under the law, even Vance has indicated he will not object to this bill.
Gov. Cuomo’s own Attorney General has come out in support of this bill, saying, “I believe it’s high time that gravity knives be removed from the penal code.”
(BUT ITS ALSO ABOUT REGULAR, LOCKABLE FOLDERS being treated as illegal folders: thats what the majority of tens of thousands of arrests have been over)
Martin LaFalce of the Legal Aid Society, who has written a number of Amicus Briefs in support of Knife Rights Federal civil rights lawsuit challenging NYC’s and Vance’s discriminatory enforcement of the law against owners of common folding knives, said, “this is the most unfair law-enforcement practice in New York state.”
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I have a small folded hunting knife in my glove compartment.
Pretty sure it’s legal.
I live on Staten Island (though looking in PA currently) and dont even know our knife laws.
When you live in NYC, ignorance of the laws is bliss :)
Thanks. Much better.
Cyrus Vance (Jr). That’s a name that’s come back to haunt us.
The NYPD Academy actually has two sessions where recruits learn jow to flip open a normal folding knife with a locking blade. It could take the officer on the street seven tries but if he gets your knife to open you’re going to jail. And God help you if you are foundvwith a Swiss Army one hand trekker. I own the Swiss Army rescue knife with glass breaker and seatbelt cutter. I keep it in my car but a good friend on the NYPD told me not to drive with it in the city. Honestly I think Cuomo lets this one die.
This is just another reason why I will not ever visit states like New York or New Jersey where the Constitution is held in contempt by the local government.