Knife Check at NRA Meeting in Louisville, 2016

Ammoland ^ | 20 May,2016 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Open carry is unrestricted at the NRA annual meeting in Louisville, Ky, this year.  But with presidential candidate Donald Trump speaking at the Leadership Forum, the Secret Service set up a system to stop the entrance of people with guns and knives.  Doug Ritter of Knife Rights realized that the carry of pocket knives is common with people across the United States, and that it is a major inconvenience to trudge a half mile back to a parked car to deposit a pocket knife after walking through a quarter mile line to hear the speakers.

The procedure was simple.  Hand a friendly boy scout your knife or knives.  They would put them in a zip lock bag, with a ticket that you kept a stub from.  If you wanted, you could take a picture of the knives in the bag as an alternate way of recovering them.

As a bonus, the ticket to pick up your knives at the check in station could be turned in at the Knife Rights booth, #4507 for a drawing to win one of two $500 knives.

[marktwain]

Doug Ritter runs Knife Rights on a shoestring budget and accomplishes legislative wonders.

[vetvetdoug]

I’ve had to return to the parking lot twice at airports as my pocket knife was too valuable to just let some affirmative action employee get to take it home. I remember most of the time now but I can do just as much harm with an E guitar string wrapped around pencils.

[Puppage]

Ain’t that the truth!

[Thales Miletus]

I’ve had to return to the parking lot twice at airports as my pocket knife was too valuable to just let some affirmative action employee get to take it home. I remember most of the time now but I can do just as much harm with an E guitar string wrapped around pencils.

Great now I am, going to have to register my guitar strings and pencils. ;)

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

Quite, they already take to much stuff.

[WKUHilltopper]

The only guy you need to worry about carrying a knife around Trump is Glenn, Stabby the Clown, Beck.

[jagusafr]

I had to go back through the Pentagon tunnel a couple of years ago to put my tactical knife in the rental car out in the C lot. Ridiculous.

[imardmd1]

At the Independence Mall in downtown Philly, you cannot have a pocket knife in the line to see the Liberty Bell. What a sham! I mean, shame!

This infringement was put in place just after 9/11/01, almost 15 years ago. And for what reason? Actually, that a few imbecile lawmakers could react to a few other sincere terrorists such that a whole nations could be put in bondage by the destruction of of mutual trust between codependent moral citizens.

[marktwain]

There is a philosophy/agenda to all of this.

It is the nanny state. Individuals are not to be trusted with responsibility.

The possession of weapons gives them too much responsibility, and too much independent thought.

[Reverend Wright]

actually, in the case of the Liberty Bell it was vandalized by some nut prior to 911

http://articles.philly.com/2001-04-17/news/25329945_1_welsh-mitchell-guilliatt-federal-judge

[cyclotic]

Vandalized with a hammer, so they ban knives.

Last time I was there, I dropped my knife down the hole in the center of a traffic cone for a couple hours, then came back and retrieved it.

[Impala64ssa]

G. Gordon Liddy once quipped that knives do have certain advantages over guns, they're always loaded and don't go BANG when used.

[mad_as_he$$]

Nice hike!

[left that other site]

I had to go into a courthouse to testify for a friend, and I was stopped and had to take my little guitar-repair-kit back to my car.

It consisted of a string-winder/peg-puller plastic tool, a set of strings, and a little set of wire cutters.

[Timmy]

I have stashed my little pocketknife in selected hiding places inside the airport (outside the secured area) many times. Was always there when I returned.

[wita]

The possession of weapons gives them too much responsibility, and too much independent thought.

Word bastardization. Same thing going on in our schools by classifying pocket knives as weapons rather than a tool. Knives are only a weapon when attempting to use one as such. The same could be said of guns, but I recognize that may be a bridge too far for the public in general.

Is there such a thing as too much responsibility? We certainly don’t learn it from the blasted zero tolerance crap used on children in the public schools.

[wita]

Don’t spend much time in airports as I basically quit flying after 9-11. Maybe half a dozen flights in the intervening years and in that time fifty bucks worth of knives given to the TSA folks. So, some idea with the crowds of people watching, how you manage to hide away those little tools of yours so they are available on your return.

[Cobra64]

At the airport, I went back outside and shoved my knife (stainless) into a flower garden planter.

[marktwain]

“The possession of weapons gives them too much responsibility, and too much independent thought.”

I was attempting to state the mindset of the nanny-state promoters.

[Shanghai Dan]

Just fly business or first class. They have a penchant for handing you nice, heavy METAL forks and knives. Heck, on the Cathay Pacific flights they give you a 6” bladed SERRATED steak knife when you order the tenderloin for dinner!