Posted on 06/04/2016 10:03:33 AM PDT by marktwain
In a bipartisan vote yesterday, the New York Assembly voted 99 - 12 to pass A9042A, Knife Rights' gravity knife and switchblade reform bill. A9042A, and its companion bill in the Senate, S6483A, add clarifying bias-toward closure exclusions to the state switchblade and gravity knife definitions, similar to that included in the revision to the Federal Switchblade Act that Knife Rights helped pass in 2009. This clarifying exclusion should prevent the bogus Gravity Knife arrests and prosecutions of honest law-abiding individuals in New York City who are carrying common folding knives, tools that are legal to carry everywhere else in the U.S.
Now all focus moves to the Republican controlled Senate, which has sent mixed messages on how they intend to act on this bill. As a knife owner, whether for work, collecting, sporting or other legitimate purposes, we must ask why would the Republican controlled New York Senate not immediately allow a vote on a bill that would protect workmen, sportsmen, collectors and shop keepers from being arrested for possessing a simple pocket knife?
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal article on the pending lawsuit and the legislation to address the issue contained the following statement: "Legislation is also pending before the state Senate, although a spokesman for the Senate Republicans said it wasn't clear if it would be voted on this session."
(Excerpt) Read more at kniferights.org ...
I do not know if he would veto it or not. This is the first knife law reform legislation to have a chance in many years. There is contact information at the link.
Sounds like common sense to me.
Common sense?
Which is why the RINO’s and democrats oppose it.
The Democrats have passed it in the New York Assembly.
Yes. One of the most important anti-Second Amendment pieces of legislation, ever. Pushed by organized crime to make crime safer.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-new-york-became-nexus-of-second.html
” the bogus Gravity Knife arrests “
Hey! I haven’t arrested anyone!
I tried reading that mish-mash, but what, pray tell, is a Gravity Knife? Switchblade I understand, but if my knife fell out of it’s sheath or holster, is that a Gravity knife if it hits the ground? I’m cornfused.
A gravity knife was originally a design to be opened one handed to free a parachutist from tangled shrouds or a hangup in a tree. Instead of using a spring to open the blade, it used the weight of the blade for opening.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_knife
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