D.C. update please!

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Hi,
My business partner is leaving for D.C. this afternoon and wants to take his AFCK. I suspect that he'll end up having it confiscated at one of his stops at a "public building" (i.e. museum or government building) Can anyone post some current info?
thanks

JB
 
Any updates from your business partner?

There are metal detectors at most every fed building, including the museums. IIRC, technically, legally, D.C. local ordinances requires a license for even pepper spray.

Blades? See 18 USC 930.

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/930.html

(g) As used in this section:
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(2) The term "dangerous weapon" means a weapon, device, instrument, material, or substance, animate or inanimate, that is used for, or is readily capable of, causing death or serious bodily injury, except that SUCH TERM DOES NOT INCLUDE A POCKET KNIFE WITH A BLADE OF LESS THAN 2 1/2 INCHES IN LENGTH.

However, I suspect that federal security dudes and dudettes will likely interpret a sub 2.5" folder that "looks dangerous", whatever that might be, to be a "weapon" rather than a "pocket knife". Yeah, maybe you'd win in court on appeal, but how deep are your pockets?

To D.C.: You are the weakest link.


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Ken Grubb
Lacey, WA, USA
 
The washington, DC, law, as opposed to Federal regulations, requires that the blade be less than 3". I have had the blades on my knives measured at the Holocaust Museum and at the Archives and they measure for 3". Nowhere else have they measured, but I have not even tried to take a blade into the Courthouse or into Police HQ. I work in a Federal office and have never even had them look at what I carry, but Phantom4 has, and they took away his Dragonfly, IIRC, so you never can tell. I have a who works in another Department, who told me of using his Native to open a box and mentioning something about hoping that it didn't bother the woman nearby. She laughed and pulled out a Benchmade 4+" tanto blade auto to show him. I need to work there!

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh Fuller
 
The idea of having my knife checked at the Holocaust Museum, of all places, is disgusting and frightening to me. But then, our modern society has done a good job at brainwashing people into becoming willing victims-to-be.

For many sheeple "Never again" is apparently just a PC saying that they bleat to comfort each other.

"Never again" uttered while in the possession of your own weapon is a direct threat to the fascist lawmakers who wish to deny that "governments gone bad" are the chief cause of human misery and destruction.

Of course, I'm guess I'm just a "psycho militia member" or whatever they call GOOD CITIZENS OPPOSED TO SLAVERY AND GENOCIDE nowadays.

I think of the WWII poster of the young dogface holding out a full clip of .30-06 and his Garand, saying, "the M-1 does MY talking for me!"

Nowadays, a teen with a battle rifle is seen as a threat to "civilization."

Now how'd that happen?

Karl
 
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