Can't overlook the "gateway drug".
Posted on 09/02/2024 7:40:23 AM PDT by CFW
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution undisputedly protects the individual right to own and carry firearms for self-defense, sport, and other uses. But the amendment actually says nothing about guns; it refers to "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms," of which firearms are just one example of what dictionaries define as "a means (such as a weapon) of offense or defense." In Massachusetts, last week, that resulted in a decision by the state's highest court striking down a law against switchblade knives.
Protected by the Second Amendment
"We conclude switchblades are not 'dangerous and unusual' weapons falling outside the protection of the Second Amendment," wrote Justice Serge Georges Jr. for the court in an opinion in Commonwealth v. Canjura that drew heavily on two landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases: Bruen (2022) and Heller (2008). The decision found the state's ban on switchblade knives unconstitutional and dismissed charges against the defendant.
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I think the massholes also banned simple locking knives.
Maine got rid of switchblade laws in two steps. First, they said emergency personnel needed them to cut seatbelts off car crash victims while their other hand was occupied, say for example compressing a bleeding injury, and secondly because regular jackknives discriminated against disabled people who didn’t have two functioning hands to open the knives.
After a year or two they just made the things legal.
https://eknives.com/blog/switchblades-legal-your-state-know-your-rights
State laws above
https://kniferights.org/resources/federal-switchblade-act/
Commonly referred to as the “Federal Switchblade Act,” it was passed by Congress on August 12, 1958, enacted as Public Law 85-623, an “act to prohibit the introduction, or manufacture for introduction, into interstate commerce of switchblade knives, and for other purposes.”
The two ultra far left judges on the court were appointed by Governor Maura Healy. They were appointed after this case started, so they were not involved.
Can't overlook the "gateway drug".
There are all kinds of weapons that fall under these laws. Brass knuckles, saps, slungshots, etc, that even if legally possessed can not be carried concealed, or with the intent of harming someone.
The laws vary from state to state. I know in Massachusetts you can't even carry mace without a permit. Tasers were banned in Mass until a court ruling in 2018, but you need a permit to have one. Some states banned the possession of ammo, so if you throw that box of .22s in the trunk, and a few fall into the spare tire well, you could be in big trouble driving through Mass or New York.
Why bother banning them anyway. They’re flimsy nothings. Even Paul Hogan wasn’t impressed.
I have a high end automatic knife that I rarely carry. In the People’s Republic of Maryland, the law is so vague it’s disgusting. It’s illegal to carry a switchblade with the intent to harm another person. How do you prove intent with something that’s in your pocket?
As I read your second link, it is illegal to have a switchblade in your car if you simply drive through an Indian reservation, as in crossing Oklahoma from Missouri, even if it’s okay in Missouri.
I don’t understand why they prohibited Indian Reservations from having any switchblades.
I can’t believe they had someone actually throwing one in Warriors. You can’t throw something that lopsided and hit such a tiny object as a wrist. Maybe the state legislature saw Warriors and decided that we can’t have gangsters disarming other gangsters like Roy Rogers did. They might go nuts in a mall and throw switchblades at people.
I have a couple of switchblades i bought at amazon for $9 each. They sell hundreds of them everyday; they call them spring-assisted folding knives.
1887 Webster’s Dictionary: “bear v.t., carry, to bear, as to bear a sword.”
Personally I like The Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife. A slimmed down version of the Arkan-saw Toothpick. Bought mine back in 1968 in Little Rock Ar. Maxie’s Pawn.
https://www.sportingoutbacksupplies.com.au/var/images/product/300.300/IMG_2339_1_1_1.jpg
“I have a couple of switchblades i bought at amazon for $9 each. They sell hundreds of them everyday; they call them spring-assisted folding knives.”
We have a few of the spring-assisted folding knives, along with several other types, here at our house as well. Hubby will buy one if we are somewhere and a knife with a neat design catches his eye. We figure the grandsons (and granddaughters as well) can argue over who gets which one once he and I are gone.
GOOD WAITING FOR OVERTURN OF ALL NJ’S CRACKPOT ANTI-WEAPONS LAWS.
How long before I can carry a broadsword?
Pretty sure that huge fixed-blade knife would be illegal to carry in NYC.
Which would seem to cover a box cutter or even a plastic knife.
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