New Hampshire, Arizona, and Utah already have strong knife preemption protection.
If a gang kid pulled out a switchblade today, it would seem so retro as to be almost endearing. All laws about knives need to go.
When I as a kid, in the Fifties in Ohio, every kid had a pocket knife. And most of them were switchblades we ordered from ads on the back page of comic books.
What about pointed sticks?
I never understood the logic of banning automatic opening knives. Once again, I think it just boils down to the “scary” factor. If you think about it logically, a criminal using any knife in a crime is going to have ANY knife open and ready for use before he commits the crime anyway.
just don’t bring one to a gun fight.
It’s a very small and inconsequential example but here goes. Last week my boys and I were kayaking down a river. At one point, we jumped in and clipped our kayaks to our PFD’s to float along. Somow, my son snagged a thread form the rope in his braces and was in an uncomfortable position. I reached in the pocket of my swimsuit and pulled out my spring loaded Gerber pocket knife, swam over, flicked it oen easily and removed the thread form his mouth. That’s justification for a very easy opening knife.