Knife Rights is Getting It Done™ - 2013 Legislative Successes in Review

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The results speak for themselves. Knife Rights is America's most effective knife owners advocacy organization!

As we approach the midpoint of the year and head off to BLADE Show, it seems like a good time to review the extraordinary accomplishments of Knife Rights so far this year. 2013 has been our most productive year yet, building upon our prior successes to create an even Sharper Future™.

Some naysayers argued that political reaction to the Newtown tragedy would make it impossible for us to make headway this year, but we were not convinced. Turns out we were right!

Knife Rights passed FIVE more Pro-Knife Bills this year!
Knife Rights passed Switchblade Ban Repeals in FOUR more states this year!
Knife Rights passed Knife Law Preemption in THREE more states this year! ​

Persistence pays off. Our success in passing legislation in Kansas, Alaska and Indiana was the culmination of a two-year effort in those states. This is testament to our determination and understanding of the legislative process. A setback is not defeat. We'll always come back stronger the next time around.

In every state where we claim success, it is the result of aggressive lobbying by Knife Rights on the ground in the state capitol, working closely with legislators to get pro-knife legislation passed.

Knife Rights Successes in 2013:

  • Kansas Knife Law Preemption, Ban on Switchblades, Dirks, Daggers & Stilettos Repealed
  • Alaska Knife Law Preemption, Ban on Switchblades Repealed
  • Tennessee Knife Law Preemption
  • Indiana Ban on Switchblades Repealed
  • Texas Ban on Switchblades Repealed
  • New Jersey Opposed Anti-Knife Bill

In addition, our Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit against New York City and New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. continues, with significant successes in the past year. Earlier this year Knife Rights submitted Experts' Reports that support our positions made in our pleadings. Neither NYC nor the DA filed any Expert Reports. Depositions of our experts are scheduled to be held in New York City the middle of June.

With your support, no organization in the history of pro-knife legislation has accomplished more in less time than Knife Rights. No organization has been more effective at proactively fixing bad knife laws than Knife Rights.

5 Years: 2009 - 2013 (see below)
13 Pro-Knife Bills Passed
7 Knife Law Preemption Bills Passed
7 Knife Ban Repeals Passed
4 Anti-Knife Bills Defeated​

The results speak for themselves. Knife Rights is America's most effective knife owners advocacy organization!

Thank you for helping us create a Sharper Future for All Americans™!

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Knife Rights Getting It Done™ 2009 - 2013
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2009
- 5th Exception to Federal Switchblade Act Protecting Assisted-Opening and One-Hand Opening Folders
- A collaborative effort including AKTI, NRA, NSSF, CCRKBA and others - Knife Rights representing Grass Roots Knife Owners[/B]

2010
- Arizona Knife Law Preemption
- Pioneering Knife Rights effort - FIRST in Nation
- New Hampshire Ban on Switchblades, Dirks, Daggers & Stilettos Repealed

2011
- Utah Knife Law Preemption
- New Hampshire Knife Law Preemption
- Washington, Nevada & Florida Stopped Anti-Knife Bills
- Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit filed against New York City & NYC District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr.

2012
- Georgia Knife Law Preemption
- Missouri Switchblade Ban Repealed
- Washington Assisted-Opening Possession and AO & Automatic Manufacture Legalized
- Federal Lawsuit against NYC Continues

2013
- Kansas Knife Law Preemption, Ban on Switchblades, Dirks, Daggers & Stilettos Repealed
- Alaska Knife Law Preemption, Ban on Switchblades Repealed
- Tennessee Knife Law Preemption
- Indiana Ban on Switchblades Repealed
- Texas Ban on Switchblades Repealed
- New Jersey Opposed Anti-Knife Bill
- Federal Lawsuit against NYC Continues
 
Thank you for all your hard work Knife Rights! I just became a member and need to get a sig button.
 
Doug, if you can do anything with my fair Commonwealth, please do! :)

Thank you so much for your efforts on all our behalfs. You've reminded me that I need to renew my membership!

Everyone, please join too. We can't afford not to.

Prof.
 
Thanks for all of the pushing for knife rights. Maybe people will, one day, finally view knives as tool first and weapons second. Also, like I have said multiple times, and a military veteran friend now wholly agrees with me, you can do more damage with a boot than with a pocket knife.
 
good stuff. it's things like this that make me think the future might not be a total loss after all.

aim your sights on Cali next please! (good luck there...)
 
All I want for Christmas...

....is for switches and autos to be legal here in NY. I just want a Milano and a paratrooper knife! I'll donate! :D
 
I long ago gave up on massachusetts, but I'm glad to hear other states are getting their constitutional rights.
 
NYC is going to be a tough nut to crack! I live at the other end of the state, in Buffalo, and I am a bowie knife collector. If I should happen to put a sheathed knife on my belt, and go out in public with it, the police could not only confiscate it, but I could be subject to arrest! In the whole state of New York, we are not even allowed to own pepper spray or stun guns! These lunatic leftist bureaucrats want to leave us without protection of any kind, and to be kept at the criminal thug's mercy!
 
BOWIE=knife=guy> said:
NYC is going to be a tough nut to crack! I live at the other end of the state, in Buffalo, and I am a bowie knife collector. If I should happen to put a sheathed knife on my belt, and go out in public with it, the police could not only confiscate it, but I could be subject to arrest! In the whole state of New York, we are not even allowed to own pepper spray or stun guns! These lunatic leftist bureaucrats want to leave us without protection of any kind, and to be kept at the criminal thug's mercy!
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The only way to change the laws is to change the lawmakers. Until the source of a problem is corrected, insanity rules. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting the outcome to change. There will be no change until change occurs. Kinda philosophically weird, but true.
 
Thank you very much for all of your efforts on our behalf. I wish I was in a place I could donate.

BOWIE=knife=guy> said:
NYC is going to be a tough nut to crack! I live at the other end of the state, in Buffalo, and I am a bowie knife collector. If I should happen to put a sheathed knife on my belt, and go out in public with it, the police could not only confiscate it, but I could be subject to arrest! In the whole state of New York, we are not even allowed to own pepper spray or stun guns! These lunatic leftist bureaucrats want to leave us without protection of any kind, and to be kept at the criminal thug's mercy!
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Whataminute. This is not true. Stun guns: Illegal. Pepper Spray: Not illegal, but can only be sold by gun stores and pharmacies. NYS Penal Code Sections 265.00 and 265.01 say not a thing about sheathed knives or fixed blade knives regarding length or method of carry, though there are court judgements could classify a bowie knife as a dangerous weapon. I know for a fact that county regulations in Chautauqua County limit the blade of any carried knife to 4" or less and I am told the same is true for Erie though I have not researched it myself.

NYC is a very different story.

I'm sorry to clog up the knife rights thread with something that should be in knife laws, but I hold that if we as a community aim to change the laws we must know what they are. And with that in mind if anybody from ny can prove differently and/or better please let me know. Thank you
 
The problem is Zzyzzogeten, New York state has way too many liberals who keeps voting these insane lunatics in there! Unfortunately, so does the rest of the country as shown by Obama X 2!
 
Nimick, What the law states in New York state, and how law enforcement here carries out those laws are two different things! I once had a second job delivering pizza on Buffalo's East side back in the early 90's. It can be a dangerous neighborhood, depending on where you go. So when I made my deliveries, I strapped on a sheath with a 7" blade inside. Anyway, an off duty cop came into the pizzeria to pick up dinner and saw me with the knife. He came up to me and told me to get rid of the knife and I said to him politely, that I needed it while making my deliveries in the bad neighborhood! He then had given me the choice of turning my knife over to him or go to jail! If cops put that much effort in taking weapons away from the thugs, instead of law abiding citizens, then we wouldn't have to carry knives around!
 
BOWIE=knife=guy> said:
Nimick, What the law states in New York state, and how law enforcement here carries out those laws are two different things! I once had a second job delivering pizza on Buffalo's East side back in the early 90's. It can be a dangerous neighborhood, depending on where you go. So when I made my deliveries, I strapped on a sheath with a 7" blade inside. Anyway, an off duty cop came into the pizzeria to pick up dinner and saw me with the knife. He came up to me and told me to get rid of the knife and I said to him politely, that I needed it while making my deliveries in the bad neighborhood! He then had given me the choice of turning my knife over to him or go to jail! If cops put that much effort in taking weapons away from the thugs, instead of law abiding citizens, then we wouldn't have to carry knives around!
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Nimick said:
I know for a fact that county regulations in Chautauqua County limit the blade of any carried knife to 4" or less and I am told the same is true for Erie though I have not researched it myself.
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And now upon researching, I can't find anything. But if you did state your intent to use it as a weapon, that would give him cause to confiscate it/charge you with misdemeanor possession of a dangerous weapon in the 4th degree based on the rationale here:

Matter of Jamie D., 59 NY2d 589 (1983). Whether a “knife” is a “dangerous” knife may be determined on the basis of three alternative considerations: one, its own characteristics which show that it is primarily intended for use as a weapon; second, a modification, which converts what would otherwise be a utensil into a weapon; and third, the circumstances of the possession which may reveal that the possessor considers it a weapon and not a utilitarian tool.

If he wanted to. In the eye's of the off-duty cop, you became a "thug" the moment you declared your intent to use your knife in self defense.

It's also a perfect example of what is wrong with the knife laws in this state: lack of definition makes enforcement overly inconsistent.
 
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