Anyone else get this?

"...To these corporations and business owners, it appears they view this shakedown by the DA as simply a cost of doing business in New York City."
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Disgusting. I wonder what happened to free enterprise and pursuit of a dream to succeed.
 
Look who's in power folks.....:rolleyes:

Surprised its taken this long.

Support Doug and his group anyway you can.:thumbup:
 
This sounds pretty lousy. But, indirectly, it could turn out to be the nudge needed to get folks stirred up enough to rewrite the existing law. These things happen because the existing laws are too vague/poorly written, which gives the anti-knife crowd an excuse to engage in these kinds of antics.

This is the same sort of thing that eventually resulted in better laws enacted in Texas (where I am), and also forced a rewrite of the Federal Switchblade Act, to exclude assisted-opening knives from the list of 'prohibited' weapons (after U.S. Customs suddenly decided to 'reinterpret' the previous, vaguely-written law).

So, by all means, NY DA, keep it up. The more public this becomes, I think there's a better chance the political backlash will come back to haunt 'em.
 
I will never understand anti-knife laws. I don't agree with strong anti-gun laws, but at least I can understand their effect. What I mean by that is, if it is illegal to carry/own a gun, it is actually hard to get a gun. However, I can go to any kitchen supply store and buy a 3-4" knife that I could easily conceal. I.e. the law doesn't prevent people that are willing to carry a knife from carrying a knife, while a gun law does make it much harder to carry when its illegal.

Knife laws are pretty stupid actually.
 
So why is this DA not incarcerated? "That's a nice knife shop ya got there... it would be a shame if something were to ... happen to it." Just another thug a-hole politician that needs to lose his job post haste.
 
richw said:
I will never understand anti-knife laws. I don't agree with strong anti-gun laws, but at least I can understand their effect. What I mean by that is, if it is illegal to carry/own a gun, it is actually hard to get a gun. However, I can go to any kitchen supply store and buy a 3-4" knife that I could easily conceal. I.e. the law doesn't prevent people that are willing to carry a knife from carrying a knife, while a gun law does make it much harder to carry when its illegal.

Knife laws are pretty stupid actually.
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Both gun and knife laws are stupid and more importantly, unConstitutional.
 
What's really pathetic about this, is that the US Citizen that killed the most Americans ever didn't use a gun, or a knife...he used some ammonium nitrate fertilizer.

I'd love to see a statistic on how many of these "gravity knives" are actually killing people. Maybe they could directly compare it to the amount of people shot and killed by Police officers.

We'll all be in our little cages soon enough. No gun. No knife. No freedom.


-Freq
 
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GingivitisKahn said:
Both gun and knife laws are stupid and more importantly, unConstitutional.
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without regard to the constitutionality of the laws (remember the constitution is flexible), anti-gun laws are more effective than anti-knife law in the desired roles. I am not debating whether the desired roles are good or bad, I am just saying anti knife laws are much less effective.
 
Wrong place for this. When in doubt, ask first. Moving to Knife Laws from the General Knife Discussion.

Keep the political whining out of it and keep your language polite.
 
The original post was defective. Bladeforums is not a news aggregator site, it's for discussion. That means the original poster should start the discussion by telling us what the story is about, then what he thinks about it and why, and only then an excerpt and perhaps a link from a source.
 
richw said:
without regard to the constitutionality of the laws (remember the constitution is flexible), anti-gun laws are more effective than anti-knife law in the desired roles. I am not debating whether the desired roles are good or bad, I am just saying anti knife laws are much less effective.
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The Constitution isn't flexible no matter how much certain politicians want to pretend it is. Anti-gun laws are catastrophically ineffective (unless, of course, the objective is to make citizens less safe - and that may well be the objective).

I'm with you on your view of anti-knife laws, I'm just saying they are no better or worse than equally horrific anti-gun laws.

By the way, the Second Amendment doesn't just forbid our government from infringing our right to bear firearms - it applies to arms in general (including firearms, knives and so on).
 
This is what was done in Illinois as well. I hope the companies are willing to fight this to clear up the definition of what a gravity knife really is. Don't for a second think this is just a NY thing, as the wording in most states allows this to happen any day.....
 
Even a Buck 110 can be "snapped" open. The included pictures in that article look like my old (and some of my new) collection. Don't think I am moving to NY any time soon.
 
Recon1 said:
Removed by warned (and possibly banned) poster.
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You've been here long enough to know better. A warning is the formal way we tell you -- and others here at the same time -- what our policies are. No one is getting banned over a warning or over an explanation.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
The original post was defective. Bladeforums is not a news aggregator site, it's for discussion. That means the original poster should start the discussion by telling us what the story is about, then what he thinks about it and why, and only then an excerpt and perhaps a link from a source.
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My bad. I thought it was a pertinent knife topic.
Sure told me. :jerkit:
 
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