<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by istone:
If I work in my good old Buck knife so that I can swing it open with one hand, is it now a prohibited weapon? If I can't swing it open, but the cop can, will I go to jail?</font>
Strictly speaking, yes. Most cops I know are pretty reasonable, and will recommend that any "worked in" knife like that be tightened or retired.
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">I have way to much to say on this topic.</font>
So do I, so do I.
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">kifeman:
Acutally if someone wanted to really push for it, I would bet that the laws concerning balisong knives would be ruled unenforceable.</font>
That has been tried in Quebec, actually. Not too too long ago, their highest court ruled that balisongs did not fall under the description of "gravity knife" as described in the current legislation. That lasted all of about a week - a federal court overturned that decision.
Also, proving a law to be silly, no matter how you do it, is not going convince those responsible for it. Even if statistics were gathered, just for the purposes of exempting this one style from the "gravity knife umbrella," it wouldn't work. Stats only work to make new law, not change or eliminate old ones.
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New train of thought ...
Carrying any knife, any length, any design (legal or not), for the purposes of self-defense, is naughty. Another one you don't want to get me started on. (And you all thought I could only be verbose on religion!
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Check out these:
one here
another one
Please hop over to Canadian Connection in Community and make use of the search function as well - there's more ranting and raving than you can shake a very big stick at.
edited to insert links.
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... Bag of knives!
... stomp and squish as required ...
[This message has been edited by willOthewisp (edited 06-29-2001).]
