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I have posted this over in the AKTI Forum, which would be the best place for replies.
One of the key events leading up to the founding of AKTI was the passage in California of an alarmingly broad definition if "dirk or dagger," where the bill was already law before anybody who was anybody in the knife trade knew anything about it.
I have done a bunch of "gnome work," with the help of The Wife's legal research web site access, and collected all or nearly all California appellate cases over the last few decades on what constitutes a "concealed dirk or dagger."
The result is my new page, Is this a dagger which I see before me? , which has links to all the cases on my site, plus some comments and rants of mine at no extra charge.
Comments and suggestions are welcome. I could easily have missed something.
Anybody in California who is charged with concealed carry if a dirk or dagger should pay special attention to People v. Oskins where the court decided that the Legislature had defined the tirm, "dirk or dagger" so broadly that now, for the first time, intent to use the object as a weapon had become an element of the crime, with the government having the burden of proof.
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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001
One of the key events leading up to the founding of AKTI was the passage in California of an alarmingly broad definition if "dirk or dagger," where the bill was already law before anybody who was anybody in the knife trade knew anything about it.
I have done a bunch of "gnome work," with the help of The Wife's legal research web site access, and collected all or nearly all California appellate cases over the last few decades on what constitutes a "concealed dirk or dagger."
The result is my new page, Is this a dagger which I see before me? , which has links to all the cases on my site, plus some comments and rants of mine at no extra charge.
Comments and suggestions are welcome. I could easily have missed something.
Anybody in California who is charged with concealed carry if a dirk or dagger should pay special attention to People v. Oskins where the court decided that the Legislature had defined the tirm, "dirk or dagger" so broadly that now, for the first time, intent to use the object as a weapon had become an element of the crime, with the government having the burden of proof.
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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001
