Is a Griptilian a switchblade?

[mdauben]

Tighten the pivot, it's legal, why let one ignorant person dictate what you carry?

Because that "one ignorant person" can handcuff you, toss you in the back of his squad car, march you into the police station, charge you with a felony, and lock you in a cell with a bunch of street filth?

The fact that you can probably beat the rap in court is beside the point. Do you really want to go through all that crap for the sake of arguing the definition of a switchblade?

 

[bekylane]

My thoughts on the subject:

The dictionary and the law define a switchblade as a knife whose blade can be opened by pushing a button without touching the blade. (That's why Kershaw speed safe knives are legal, instead of a button they use a flipper so you are "touching the blade"). So by definition the Griptilian has nothing in common with a switchblade.

But for a LEO (NY or elsewhere) any knive can be considered a gravity knife or a dangerous weapon. Heck if the cop wants he can say an Spiderco Bug is a dangerous knife.

 

[tom19176]

bekylane, it is not always that simple as to what is a switchblade. NY has actually defined it pretty well, but there are many states that just refer to the word switchblade with the assumption that we all know what that is. The courts tend to like a definition that is written in a law over the ones in dictionaries. The issue then is here is the FEDERAL defintion that is used in the law that bans interstate commerce....

" (b) The term ''switchblade knife'' means any knife having a blade
which opens automatically -
(1) by hand pressure applied to a button or other device in the
handle of the knife, or
(2) by operation of inertia, gravity, or both."

For once in my life I like the NY one better! Inertia is flicking and almost any folder can be flicked open. In NY the knife must lock open, but that is not required here. You are right about the blade being touched to open an AO so they are not switchbaldes, but many of those can be flicked open, and in NY the feeling is a quick opening knife is designed for use as a weapon, so therefore it is a dangerous knife......:jerkit:

 

[stabman]

Because that "one ignorant person" can handcuff you, toss you in the back of his squad car, march you into the police station, charge you with a felony, and lock you in a cell with a bunch of street filth?

They can't if THEY CANNOT FLICK THE KNIFE!!!
If it cannot be flicked, it's not a gravity/flick/switchblade knife.

 

[shunsui]

Ever wonder why you don't wear chains befitting a slave of the empire ?

It's cheaper this way.