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Obama Now Wants Your Pocket Knife
Pro-Gun New Hampshire ^ | 06/04/2009 | Evan F. Nappen, Esq.

Posted on 06/04/2009 8:10:38 PM PDT by Revtwo

Beware! That folding knife in your pocket may turn you into a criminal if the Obama administration gets its way. Although there has been a lot of fear and speculation that the new administration wants to take your guns, the most pressing threat now is actually to your pocket knives. With the changing of the guard at U.S. Customs, that agency has now embarked on redefining "switchblades" under federal law to include a wide variety of one hand opening knives that never were intended to be prohibited. In fact, many of the knives U.S. Customs now seek to prohibit under the Federal Switchblade Law had not even been invented at the time of its enactment!

This new proposed U.S. Customs regulation is so broad that thousands of pocket knives will fall under its sweep and millions of knife owners will be affected. The problem is not simply that imports will be banned (which is bad enough), but that the "agency determination" will be used by domestic courts and law enforcement to determine what a "switchblade" is under both federal and state laws. Many states, including New Hampshire, fail to define switchblades and simply rely on the federal definition.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; bho44; bhobanglist; democrats; donttreadonme; knives; pocketknife; pocketknives; socialistblitzkrieg
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To: TigersEye

We all should carry knives. Put on Buck knives & make sure we follow the laws. How dare this POS try to take our knives.


61 posted on 06/04/2009 9:49:02 PM PDT by pandoraou812 (elected officials should be required to pass drug, alcohol & dementia testing)
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To: Cobra64
Amazing that Iran and North Korea are devloping nuclear weapons, and this jerk is fussing over pocket knives.

Well, it was boxcutters and disarmed passengers that killed nearly 3,000 people almost 8 years ago.

Can't have Muslim Murderers taken down by some grannie with a pocket knife, now can he?

62 posted on 06/04/2009 9:51:15 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: unkus
This SOB wants us to get his permission to breathe.

For which we'll need a license, the fee for which won't be negligible.

63 posted on 06/04/2009 9:52:33 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

This SOB wants us to get his permission to breathe.

“For which we’ll need a license, the fee for which won’t be negligible.”

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Neither of us are exagerating, FRiend.

This is one evil tyrrant.


64 posted on 06/04/2009 9:54:34 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Revtwo
Molon Labe

Already banned in the UK .... I'm sure Obambi will get around to it .... what a pathetic POS we have as a president.

65 posted on 06/04/2009 9:55:09 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Out of gas become a pill box, Out of ammo become a bunker, Out of hope become a hero.)
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To: ExSoldier
I will wear a belt & carry a Buck knife in a sheath. Here in NJ the state troopers hassle you for carrying legal knives. You have to have a good reason for carrying any knife. Shaking my head.....
66 posted on 06/04/2009 9:56:29 PM PDT by pandoraou812 (elected officials should be required to pass drug, alcohol & dementia testing)
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To: from occupied ga

“The purpose of any government is to control its CITIZENS...”

No. “...(T)o secure these rights governments are instituted among men.”

The purpose of government is to secure rights. Some people who have control of government misuse government for their own purposes, but that is not the fault of the government any more than it is the fault of a gun when someone misuses it for the purpose of murder.


67 posted on 06/04/2009 10:05:05 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: Revtwo
Ok, let's all just relax. This is all part of Bozo's plan to stimulate the economy. He knows that he has sold more guns than any other person in US history, not to mention ammo, and now he wants us to all go out and buy pocket knifes while the supply lasts! Yeah, that's it, he isn't a dictatorial SOB he is just different in his approach to the economy. (I hope I don't need to put the SAR tag on this one!)

The fact is, we all need to run out and buy pocket knifes, if you don't have one go out and get one, if you have one or two buy more. Then when we impeach this POS we can bring back the import of pocket knifes.

68 posted on 06/04/2009 10:09:34 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Costumed Vigilante

Your pic reminds me of the line in Crocodile Dundee, “You call that a knife? This is a knife!”.


69 posted on 06/04/2009 10:11:32 PM PDT by calex59
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To: pandoraou812
Take my knife.


70 posted on 06/04/2009 10:25:28 PM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye

Thanks


71 posted on 06/04/2009 10:28:04 PM PDT by pandoraou812 (elected officials should be required to pass drug, alcohol & dementia testing)
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To: pandoraou812
Oh, the dirty buggers took away the pic. Their loss. Might have brought some serious traffic to their site.

This is what my kukri looks like anyway.

72 posted on 06/04/2009 10:31:29 PM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Revtwo

The liberals have learned from the United Nations. They want to tell us how to teach our kids, how to pray, they want to take our guns and knives, deed control of our rivers and waterways to the UN, and also give the UN control of all our national parks. It is past time to lock and load. The fight is going to be harder now.


74 posted on 06/04/2009 10:44:25 PM PDT by NorseWood
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To: ChildOfThe60s
Remember, Obamunism is the Fatal Cure for Bush Derangement Syndrome.
75 posted on 06/04/2009 10:49:12 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (One Man's Messiah is another Man's Fuhrer...)
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To: pandoraou812

No we can’t. It’s not a pic of my shoe. lol


76 posted on 06/04/2009 10:56:52 PM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Revtwo

Simple: If they take your knife, shoot them; if they take your gun, stab them.


77 posted on 06/04/2009 11:25:25 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The mob got President Barabbas; America got shafted)
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To: KrisKrinkle
The purpose of government is to secure rights

The purpose of government is SUPPOSED TO BE what you said. In reality the purpose of government has devolved into what I said. The purpose of government at all levels in the USA today is to extract wealth from the serfs and squander it on what the bureaucrats and politicians deem most likely to be beneficial to themselves meanwhile keeping the jackboot firmly on the necks of the citizens.

78 posted on 06/05/2009 4:00:31 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: KrisKrinkle
as further support of my hypothesis read http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/06/californians_are_servants_of_t.html
79 posted on 06/05/2009 4:26:39 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: backspace

I carry a spyderco civilian daily, not too many folks care for them, but I love it.


80 posted on 06/05/2009 4:39:40 AM PDT by Sinschild (I'm for anything that punishes the weak and stupid for being weak and stupid.)
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