Interesting. I have an assist pocketknife—was told not to take it into California (neighboring state) when I bought it.
I understand the reason but doesn’t that render switchblades vs assisted-opening knives as a distinction without a difference?
No discussion of the reasonably apparent fact that the law against switchblades doesn’t make a great deal of sense.
If you want to stab someone, the 1/2 second needed to open a knife manually rather than by spring action wouldn’t seem to be much of a deterrent.
I carried a 4” folding Buck hunter to high school in a belt sheath every day. I assume it would have done at least as good a job of stabbing someone as any switchblade. Somehow I managed to restrain myself.
But you still can’t take a butter knife into a school. A sharpened pencil or a metal compass is fine, but definitely not a butter knife.
Who would have ever thought that in the United States we would have to have a law protecting the use of pocket knives.?
“U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) proposed amending the Switchblade Knife Act of 1958 earlier this year, which would have changed the interpretation of the definition of switchblade knives to include assisted-opening knives.”
Customs is proposing legislation...right
I laughed when I first heard this, but it’s not really funny. We needed to send them a nice little message. Do your job, enforce the laws made by the peoples house and STFU.
I think they just got sent the message
Why in pluperfect hell is there a federal law restricting what kind of knife I can carry?? I should be able to carry ANY weapon ANYwhere, ANYtime for ANY reason. What I should NOT be able to do is USE that weapon to commit a crime. Where does this federal power exist in the constitution? This country is becoming a madhouse...a madhouse!
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Where is the Constitutional authority for the FedGov to say anything about knives? There is none. They have no business making any laws about knives.