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swiftspeed10

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So I ordered this knife from knifecenter.com:

http://www2.knifecenter.com/item/BO...m=search-as-you-type&utm_campaign=boker exske

and I received an email:

We apologize for the inconvenience, but New York city law forbids us from shipping this type of item to you. This situation is, obviously, beyond our control. We advise New York City residents to petition their elected officials to change their state laws in this regard.

We want your business, but it will have to be for a different type of item (or see below). Again, we regret this circumstance and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

I'm a little confused as to why a non automatic/switchblade cannot be shipped to my house. What is happening to this country?
 
Unfortunately us NYC knifenuts have been stuck with this situation for the past few years. Many of the major retailers won't ship to our knife forsaken place. Not much we can do about :/
 
swiftspeed10 said:
What is happening to this country?
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NYC is a big bucket of sucky suckage as far as knife laws go. The same is true for most other large, liberal cities. I guess it's a blessing that Chicago still allows you to carry a knife that locks and can be opened with one hand--as long as it's 2.5" or less.
 
While a number of online retailers have been intimidated by the NYC District Attorney and won't ship to NYC, many others will. Shop around.
 
As Critter said many will ship to all of NYS. The issue ( in case you don't know as your new here) is that NYC has determined by use of NYS law, that any locking folder that can be flicked open with any amount of force is a gravity knife and therefore illegal to sell or possess in most cases. The present NYC ( Manhattan) DA Vance, went after many retailers for selling them, and then started to "look" at online retailers having a chat with a few of them. The ripple effect was many not selling to NYC and some not selling to anywhere in NYS due to the fear of such an issue coming to them.
I recently bought a liner lock from a USA made company called Great Eastern, and it is the closest thing I have found to a legal NYC locking knife when ordered with the blade under 4". It has a full half stop blade notch while opening and closing and a tight liner lock. This is impossble to flick open and is not a weapon by design so it meets the bill if your looking for a legal style knife. Other sod buster liner locks tend not to be able to flick open and are non weapon designs.....
 
Many manufacturers and retailers will simply not ship any locking folders to NYC, DA Vance becomes seriously engorged in the special parts when it comes to anything weapon related. A few years ago they went after retailers in the wake of the very misguided "gravity knife" interpretation ruling (which was dead wrong from a technical viewpoint), it wasn't just small shops either, they even sued the likes of Home Depot and Modell's (large regional sporting goods chain). If I'm not mistaken, they also went after BladeHQ at some point also. Most retailers simply want nothing to do with NYC, and I really don't blame them.

On a stupid note, concealed carry of fixed blades up to 4" blade length is legal in NYC, meaning that you could carry a fixed karambit concealed and not break the law. I think it's safe to say that a karambit is about as "weapon" as it gets.
 
Root cause: NY is a communist state.

Many common tools are illegal there.
 
Ship to your closet friend outside of NYC..


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Some online retailers (Bento Box) won't even ship to Long Island, which isn't part of NYC.
 
I know it would draw heavy vacuum for the residents of NYC, but what if....

In an effort to keep all gravity knives out of NYC, every knife maker and/or distributor in America ceased shipping all knives of any type to NYC, be they scissors, butter knives, cake knives, kitchen knives (electric and manual), plastic/wood picnic knives, gardening knives, and that most notorious of all knives, the hair clippers with their 30000 cutting motions per minute (20 little pairs of scissors oscillating at 1500 oscils/minute.

That's because if you happened to drop a butter knife, gravity takes over and therefore you have created a "gravity" knife by extension of the convoluted BS logic of the NYC DA.

I know it wouldn't work because someone would bootleg in (at a high markup in price) all the picnic knives they could buy in, uh,... uh, wait, not NJ, the PTB are trying to ban carrying any knife there. Maybe in some little town in PA, but not in Philly, since you can't carry any knife there, and Connecticut probably wants to ban cotton balls because someone got one stuck in their nose...:rolleyes:
 
swiftspeed10 said:
So I ordered this knife from knifecenter.com:

http://www2.knifecenter.com/item/BO...m=search-as-you-type&utm_campaign=boker exske

and I received an email:

We apologize for the inconvenience, but New York city law forbids us from shipping this type of item to you. This situation is, obviously, beyond our control. We advise New York City residents to petition their elected officials to change their state laws in this regard.

We want your business, but it will have to be for a different type of item (or see below). Again, we regret this circumstance and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

I'm a little confused as to why a non automatic/switchblade cannot be shipped to my house. What is happening to this country?
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I believe these so called "gravity knives" are legal to possess when hunting or fishing with a valid license.
 
get a swiss army , sodbuster or spyderco ukpen knife ,,about the only legal blades that you can carry . and even with these blades , if you go into manhattan like say the empire state building or the ferry , the security will take the blade from you :grumpy:
 
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