Incredibly corrupt. It's legal to open carry in Seattle, but a 5-4 majority claims Seattle can enforce a law against any fixed blade knife or a folding knife with a blade more than 3.5"
Expect this to go to the US Supreme Court.
In Baltimore, the jury through out the charge that the police illegally arrested the fellow who subsequently died of a severed spinal column, because his knife wasn’t illegal under Maryland law. As a result, the arrest was good, and it became very difficult to make any other charge stick.
I carry my hunting knife through Seattle daily. Catch me if you can.
Paring knife should be small potatoes. The carrier should have claimed he was an itinerant chef.
The jury foreman should have stood up and said, “We, the jury, find the defendant innocent of all trumped up charges that have wasted the court’s time and the taxpayers’ dollars.”
It is an odd opinion.
The majority holds that the 2nd Amendment doesn’t apply because a paring knife - even when carried for personal defense - doesn’t meet their definition of “arms.” Ironically, if I read the opinion correctly, had he been carrying a Kabar (which absolutely meets the city code definition of a “dangerous knife” and whose traditional use is as a weapon (an “arm” as opposed to a kitchen tool)), the challenge to the city code (as unconstitutionally infringing on Evan’s 2nd Amendment rights) might have done better.
Interesting that the traditional use of the object carries more weight with these “judges” that the intended use by its owner. Until, of course, they need it not to.
And here all these years I had thought that merely forming my hand into a fist made it a weapon.