"illegal" knives in new york

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i just ran across this old new york times article, where disgraced new york district atty cyrus r. vance jr. does a mob style shake down of 14 manhattan retailers for selling supposedly illegal knives.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/nyregion/18knives.html

from the article: "The knives generally fall into one of two categories: switchblades and gravity knives."
looking at the picture of some of the more than 1,300 knives surrendered, i don't see a single switchblade or gravity knife...
what is going on here?!

"Mr. Vance said he expected the forfeitures by the stores to total nearly $1.9 million. Just more than half of that money will go to the city, 10 percent to the state and the rest to law enforcement agencies, he said. "

is it just me, or does anyone else feel like stabbing this guy in the face?
 
Yeah knife rights has a law suit going on because of this. It it outrages you this much I strongly suggest you join them to offer your support to fight this injustice!
 
Yep, give knife rights a hand fighting this guy.

And no, I don't feel like stabbing him in the face. It's precisely attitudes like that that allow people like him to prosper. The world needs more RESPONSIBLE knife users, not more people who want to stab other people in the face, regardless of how merited it may be.
 
reskar:

knife rights?
i would gladly join and offer my support.
could you give a little more info please?
 
To me, this is a scapegoat for a lot of New York's problems, draw the attention to knives and also make some cash from it.
I hope one day people will stop using knives as scapegoats for problems.
 
They didn't even define switchblade correctly. The way they defined it, an AO is a switchblade, which it isn't. This is just a total load of BS, and I hope this guy just falls in a deep, dark hole, and is never seen or heard from again.

I am sick and tired of the world viewing me as a deviant because I choose to carry a tool with me. Just the other day I had a guy (who looked like a criminal, btw) whose jaw was basically on the floor when he saw my Ka-Bar Fin on my belt. He looked at me as if I was carrying a running chainsaw, but nobody says a damn thing when somebody has a 9mm strapped to their side...
 
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