Around 30 years ago, I read Florida’s law on concealed weapons. To my surprise it literally listed “Buck Knives” as forbidden.
I can’t imagine that such an ambiguous law would survive a court test but who knows?
Stilettos can be very dangerous. Every so often, I hear about a woman (or a Trans-’woman’) taking their high heeled shoe off and battering somebody in the head with it.
I don’t know what effect this organization would have on somebody who wielded their shoe as an OFFENSIVE weapon, vs for purposes of self-defense.
He certainly keeps his group Knife Rights under the radar. I’ve never heard of it. They probably differ from the typical rights group of today, in that Knife Rights does not seek a lot of on the air exposure through interviews and debates.
Just don’t go to London or CA where butter knives and straws are illegal. :D
Stupid people making stupid laws for ridiculous reasons.
Does this mean I can finally buy an Arkansas Toothpick? Uh ... for a friend I mean ...
I carry a switchblade as a backup.
Amen
While you were formatting your post, this was also posted: https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3687950/posts “A California man was arrested Sunday after allegedly attempting to stab a Republican congressional candidate with a switchblade . . .”
I’m a big fan of knife rights and gun rights. “Shall not be infringed” is unambiguous and means exactly what it says. I hope our side wins and not the side of violent thugs. Democrats consider it a victory if they murder a patriot and another victory if their violence leads to disarming decent people.
I have a razor-sharp switchblade less than a handspan from my left elbow. A good tool.
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/
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.
“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.”
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.
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