Customs crushes Automatics

Well. Society surely can rest easy now, with these Customs nimrods hot on the case, guarding our very lives from the menace of cheap imported switchblades.

Oh, wait, they weren't switchblades at all:

The knife shipment listed "pocket, hunting and kitchen knives." But "just pop a little plastic plug out of the knife and pop the spring in," and it becomes a switchblade, Miller said. No arrests were made, Miller said.
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File down the sear on a 1911A1 and you've got an illegal machine pistol. Just pop a set of plastic wheels on my grandmother, and she's a Radio Flyer. Customs has apparently crushed a box of "knives that might someboday become switchblades."

This is all so ridiculous.
 
Well, I feel much better knowing that tax dollars are going towards the efforts of US Customs being on the lookout for dog and cat fur. That damned fur always seems to jam the imported automatics.
:rolleyes: :barf:
 
It seems sort of strange to me. As far as I know, importing springs is not illegal. The knives were not switchblades since they had no springs in them. Had some person actually (and I know that nobody here would even think of doing this;) ) actually put one of those springs into one of those knives, that would be manufacturing a switchblade. But, that's a violation of the switchblade act, not of customs regulations. So, it's not up to customs to enforce that. Besides, they'd have to catch someone actually doing it.
 
So is the point being made here that LEO's should selectively enforce the laws. :rolleyes:

Or is it that we have some pretty dumb laws?
 
That sounds like a good idea, confiscate everything before it could be made illegal!
What will be the next?
Confiscate all steel, because one could make a switchblade out of it?

Better go and arrest a politician because he may become a criminal.

:barf:
 
A politician MAY be come a criminal? Heh heh. Was it Samuel Clemens or Will Rogers who said that the only criminal class in America WAS Congress? :D
 
Yep, I sure do feel better now that all those "potential" switchblade knives are off the street! :p

Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential liberties in the name of a little temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security". It may in fact not be verbatim, but I am close. Anyone have it in writing?

GREAT POST BOBBY!

Speak to you soon!
 
I must be in the right place. I too had the thought that anything not prohibited was legal, and those knives were therefore legal unless converted.

How do we know those springs weren't part of an order for high quality ballpoint pens? Or part of an order for another project? A plus B = C is certainly logical, but not proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
 
The previous problems with Customs experienced by CRKT lend further support for the argument that the government functionaries working for Customs are a bunch of high-handed morons. Remember that CRKT's folding knives were confiscated as gravity knives when some Customs dildo decided that, after you've loosened the pivot pin you've got a knife that can be wrist-flicked open -- which he then proved by jerking his little arm up and down to achieve as many 90-degree partial openings as he could manage.

Your government may not hate you, but its tin-plated would-be-dictator employees certainly do.
 
Bobby, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Man, this is a bunch of crap! I'll go along with Gollnick, these knives weren't even switchblades yet. If I was the guy that these got taken from, I would look into a lawsuit against customs. You probably can't win against them though.

michael
 
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