Posted on 04/29/2010 6:14:25 PM PDT by marktwain
In a heartbeat.
Yah, that’s pretty silly. IIRC the law here in WA is 4”.
Silly me asked "Why?". I was then informed that the city officials were concerned about just how much MORE damage could be caused with a 'serrated' blade, so they banned them all together.
Yep, my tax dollars at work.....
LOL... Brilliant.
Should be!
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Another Lost Fan. I just moved off the website and found they ran a rerun so it’s another week before another new episode. My GF is a huge devoted fan. She thinks I’m a fan but I just want the thing over so I can figure out the heck the thing is all about.
They LOST me when the smoke monster first appeared. Just plain nonsense.
None - you need to re-watch the movie. His name was Mick Dundee. "Crocodile" was a nickname he received after surviving a croc attack while "fishing".
LOL. You have heard of the concept of nicknames, yes?
Same here in MT. Our open carry laws allow for just about anything providing it is openly displayed, but I recently learned that if I am wearing a coat and less than 3" of the weapon is showing, I can get busted for carrying concealed. Knife or gun. And the largest knife I can carry concealed is 4". Shoot, My folding knife (normal ranch work, always in back right pocket) is over four inches, and my pig sticker, which I will often wear under my coat, is 7"+.
I can get busted
in MONTANA
for carrying a knife.
Imagine that.
So a class 1 CCW must be had, just to carry my knife. Now, most cops pay no attention to these regs up here, to be honest, but in the future, there may come a time when I have the right to remain silent, but not the ability; and in the course of such an event, piss a cop off enough to cause him to do me damage - and without that CCW, I would just be boned.
Well... I don’t live in CA (thanks to a merciful God). But sure... carrying swords openly on the street is generally a problem.
Though... as a practical matter I do end up carrying them around in vehicles and such from time to time.
There just don’t need to be any laws about knives. Whatsoever.
It’s fine to have laws about what people DO with knives, but there’s no real point in making any carrying of any sort of knife against the law.
It was changed dramatically. Without a concealed weapon permit, a person can carry a “common pocketknife.” Whatever that is I guess depends on the cop, the prosecutor, and the judge. Chapter 7 of Jon Gutmacher’s Florida Firearms Law, Use & Ownership book describes the common pocketknife in terms of a couple of appellate decisions. A Buck knife certainly fits their definitions of the legal variety. Automatic knives are also legal in Florida, with certain restrictions.
I hardly knew a boy who didn't carry either a Buck knife, a Swiss Army knife, or an Uncle Henry knife when I was a schoolboy. The notion that a school might someday ban such a vital piece of equipment would have been laughable.
Looks like Arizona’s on a roll!
>When we were still a free nation, before the NEA took over the schools, school teachers would actually advise the boys in their class to carry pocket knives, because it taught responsibility and self reliance.
Interesting. As is the advice Thomas Jefferson wrote to his fifteen-year-old nephew, Peter Carr, regarding what he considered the best form of exercise: “...I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body, and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion of your walks.”
That is exactly right.
Funny thing - I can walk anywhere I want with a 20lb sledge hammer over my shoulder... and as far as damage is concerned, that sledge is far more dangerous than a knife of any sort.
It is what I DO with the sledgehammer that matters. Why is a knife any different?
GREAT POST - thanks.
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