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Serrated Blades
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What no more steak knives !?!?!...lol....There maybe some strange law out there, and I have seen LEOs and some judges thinking a blade with full serrations on a folder feel they are some what more "weapon" like, but I am not aware of discussions to ban that type of balde profile. You basic steak knife is all serrations and no one is threatened by them at the dinner table.
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No one is threatened by a steak knife in a restaurant until somebody picks one up and goes on a bloody slashing spree. What then??
NYC thinks knives in packages sold to adults in reputable retail stores are a threat yet they allow these dangerous serrated slashing and killing weapons to be given out openly and brandished unsheated by any customer regardless of age in a public place???!!!
I think the NYC DA is missing the publicity train here. With his views on the sale of folding knives how can he allow restaurants to supply their patrons with deadly serrated fixed blade knives???
I think every restaurant in NYC should be sited, closed down and pay even larger fines than the retail stores the NYC DA busted. I mean they are furnishing serrated fixed blade knives with no sheaths to the public and even to children. It's an outrage I tell you, an outrage!!!
Knives are weapons,...... pure and simple. It's obvious that ALL knives should be removed from the public and "ALL knives" include steak knives and those heinoius butcher knives all restaurants have in their kitchens just waiting to have somebody grab one and start butchering people!!!
To be fair and to protect all NTC citizens NYC should round up every single knife in the city. I'm sure the restaurants, unions, suppliers and patrons would all be happy and sleep much easier knowing how safe their rediculous representatives are keeping them. They might get pissed off when they start getting hungry and losing jobs but hey,..... the law is the law and it should be meaded out fairly regardless of the reprecusions.
I think it's every NYC citizens public duty to follow the lead of their lawmakers in demanding safety and reporting to authorities that there are several people brandishing fixed blade serrated knives openly in a public place with children being endangered and that they fear for their lives and the lives of others based on the beliefs of the NYC DA.
If you fight fire with fire then I guess it only makes sense to fight rediculous with rediculous. Maybe then everybody would see just how rediculous these publicity hounds are and give them the publicity they deserve. ( Which would probaly lead to them being ousted from office and a happy ending)
Well this is not a NYC question, but rather a question if wheter or not their is any pending laws banning serrations. To my knowledge there is not. If you wish to understand NYC/NYS law, it can be very strictly enforced to include any item as a weapon if carried with intent to use as such. This could be any item that you carry for self defense, so yes a steak knife could be a weapon. Is there intent to use the steak knife as a weapon or to cut your steak? I guess that depends on who your eating dinner with and where the converstaion goes......
As for the present NYC DA, his actions are of course anti knife and therefore a sour pill to all members here. His method of enforcement does not seem to meet any legal standard that myself or others understand as he could warn dealers about the law or arrest them, but not fine them under the threat of arrest. The one things he has done that would seem right to non knife lovers, is to seek the end of sales of the type of knife that the courts have deemed to be illegal. As much as he is hated here, he went into office seeing several cases of possession of gravity knives and wondered where they came from. His investigators found them for sale and he went after the sellers. Now I feel the knives labeled garvity knives are not, and that battle is now under way. If you look back at my posts from some years back, I often hoped that the sellers/makers of so called "gravity" knives would take up the fight as many of their customers were getting arrested for a knife they bought openly at a large store. The sellers did not seem to care until the light was put on them, and they now had the force of the law come down on them. Ok, end of NYC/NYS recap, back to the OP's question....
As for the present NYC DA, his actions are of course anti knife and therefore a sour pill to all members here. His method of enforcement does not seem to meet any legal standard that myself or others understand as he could warn dealers about the law or arrest them, but not fine them under the threat of arrest. The one things he has done that would seem right to non knife lovers, is to seek the end of sales of the type of knife that the courts have deemed to be illegal. As much as he is hated here, he went into office seeing several cases of possession of gravity knives and wondered where they came from. His investigators found them for sale and he went after the sellers. Now I feel the knives labeled garvity knives are not, and that battle is now under way. If you look back at my posts from some years back, I often hoped that the sellers/makers of so called "gravity" knives would take up the fight as many of their customers were getting arrested for a knife they bought openly at a large store. The sellers did not seem to care until the light was put on them, and they now had the force of the law come down on them. Ok, end of NYC/NYS recap, back to the OP's question....