Felony Knife Use Type Question

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tatfiend

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Is any information available on what type of knives are used in felonies?

Just due to ready availability and the fact that most homicides are supposedly done between people who know one another I would suspect that kitchen knives would most commonly be used for assaults. I wonder though if any statistics concerning knife types used in felonies, including homicides, are available.

This of course relates to whether or not knife laws serve any purpose at all. I can just see legislators trying to ban all sharp kitchen and food preparation knives as potential murder weapons.
 
All and any knives unfortunately, even box cutters from time to time...... Most kitchen knives are the cause for murders of sharp objects, well that's what is was back home
 
I know here in PA kitchen knives are the over 60% of the knives used in knife related crimes. The EVIL Auto knife falls to less than 5 %. The numbers can be off its been a few years since Ive seen updated stats but kitchen knives are the #1 knife used to commit crimes in PA, But its still illegal to carry an auto knife and I think PHilly is like NYC it just is not worth the hassle to have any knife on you. It does suck for you guys in the UK next all you will be able to own carry or use will be that crappy plastic spork thingy you got in grade school lunch. We all know the one. The spork that the plastic tines would break off as you tryed to poke it in a chicken nugget, or your tots.
 
Might as well ban the following:
Screw drivers, drill bits, tire irons, pipes cut into segments from 16"-48", boots, ropes, chains, nail guns, sling shots, shoe laces, ice picks, wood of any kind, pencils, pends, paper (it can cut too). A renaming may be in order, URoN (United Republic of Nerf).
 
RevDevil said:
Might as well ban the following:
Screw drivers, drill bits, tire irons, pipes cut into segments from 16"-48", boots, ropes, chains, nail guns, sling shots, shoe laces, ice picks, wood of any kind, pencils, pends, paper (it can cut too). A renaming may be in order, URoN (United Republic of Nerf).
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You forgot hands. :p
 
Every homicide cop I have talked to from DC to Hawaii tells me the same thing: The overwhelming majority of crimes committed with edged weapons are cheap kitchen knives, ranging from small paring knives to large butcher knives. Non-folding knives are faster into action than any other type, and criminals wanting to do something illegal want simple, cheap, readily available from brick-and-mortar stores, and most importantly, disposable. In the horrific case of Brenda Feehery, the man who robbed her and stabbed her 55 times had shoplifted his steak knife from the very grocery store she was shopping in minutes before. The majority of detectives I talked had actually never seen an auto used in an act of violence.

Autos are legal to carry in Vermont, Arizona, Utah, and Oregon, and probably a few others I'm forgetting that changed their laws. None of these states report any serious problems with knife-related crime.
 
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