Originally posted by T. Erdelyi
In a word yes federal law supercedes local law.
The link below is taken from the Statue of Liberty Securities Guidelines web page.
Asha'man ya gotta watch I know a few guys who like to play a game where they see if they can sneak their blades past security check points, IMO this is pretty stupid, but the real scary part is that they've never been caught, I won't get into the details of how, but suffice it to say it can and is being done.
Even though they use metal detectors, and X-Ray if someone wants to sneak one in they will, so don't be lulled into a false sense security, but don't try to beat the system either, I know my freinds will get nailed, it's just a matter of time. I just hope that I'm not with them when it happens.
http://www.nps.gov/stli/reopening/page3.html
Having just gone back to check out 18USC930 to see if there had been any changes, the important part, as follows, stays the same.
'(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.'
I wonder what would happen if someone produced a copy of 18USC930 and demanded to be allowed to go onto the ferry and onto Liberty and Ellis Islands. It seems to me that the NPS is putting itself not only over the local law, but over federal law. Under the circumstances, I can see people being nervous, but I work in a Federal agency in DC and I do NOT want this idiocy to spread. I mean, I stopped carrying my Gunting as my utility EDC after 9-11 as it was just too attention grabbing and I now carry either a Li'l Temperance because it fits the DC law of a 3" maximum blade length or I carry my Meerkat or my new Salsa with its blue scales. For those not familiar with Spyderco knives, the Meerkat has a 1 30/32" blade while the Salsa has a 2 7/16" blade, so both are clearly within 18USC930. My agency, the SEC, has set up magnetic gates for visitors but has yet to send employees through them, but if they do and they try to take my knife away, as other agencies have done to other Forumites, they are in for a fight. I carry a copy of 18USC930 with me for just that reason and have shown it around to various persons of authority within the agency in an effort to circumvent such a confrontation.
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