"Spring Blade Knives" ?

[BoxANT]

I am moving to Bloomington, MN in a week and was looking over the weapon laws and codes.

The Minnesota laws seem pretty good, they outlaw automatics, saps, and "deadly weapons". But when I got to Bloomington's codes I was hit with "Spring Blade Knives"

http://www.ci.bloomington.mn.us/code/Code12_5.html

"(6) Daggers, dirks, Bowie knife, switch blade knife, spring blade knife, push button knife, or figure or disc with sharpened points or edges commonly referred to as a “throwing star”; "


My gut reaction was that my lovely AOs are illegal I hope I am not reading this correctly.

In addition, does "Daggers, driks, Bowie knifes" cover all fixed blades? Or would I still carry a small FB?

 

[Phil Elmore]

"Spring blade" refers most likley to a ballistic knife, probably (a knife that shoots its blade out of the handle). My read here is that a push button knife would be a gravity knife. Generally those laws were written long enough ago that spring-assist knives weren't on the radar, though that doesn't mean they might not be interpreted as something illegal.

 

[BoxANT]

Thanks for the insight, and I hope that is the case.