I'm as indignant as the rest of you and I think one of the first things we can do is to start supporting the organizations that support us as knife collectors and users.
For starters, us registered users could step up our membership at Blade Forums. As a relative newbie, I haven't done that yet, but I intend to...I just get so much entertainment value here
As mentioned above, there is the United States Knife and Tool Association, which is re-organizing as Knife Rights. They are not taking memberships yet but they are taking names for potential members...we can sign up for that. (USKTA, see link above) AKTI is an industry association of knife manufacturers.
Then there's Knife World and Blade magazines, which we could subscribe to. They're the free press, like Blade Forums.
About ten years ago, there was legislation before the NYS Assembly that would have made any lockback knife illegal. Not just switchblades, gravity knives, balisongs or flippers, but any lockback...your Buck 110.
A friend of mine who got me into knife collecting heard about it through Knife World. He told me about it, we wrote letters to our local assemblyman, as I'm sure a lot of other people around the state did. The law was never passed. Legislators are still more impressed by a personally written and signed letter from a constituent than they are by an email, or a list of 1000 names submitted by email.
Right now there are dozens of laws before the NYS legislature relating to gun control such as: Prohibiting a parent from taking their child under the age of 16 to a gun show, as that would be interfering with a minor. So a generation of kids will never be able to learn, see and dream about their first .22, shotgun, or deer rifle, as we did.
Currently there is a law before Congress, I believe it's sponsored by Nancy Pelosi, that would require a waiting period of several days for any guns (rifles, shotguns) sold at a gun show...instead of an instant background check with BATF. We know that gun shows, like knife shows, are usually weekend affairs at a civic center or hotel with dealers from out of town. So how could an out of town dealer hope to make any sale at a show? And if he can't sell, why bother to attend? While most sheeple probably think a waiting period is reasonable, this law will effectively shut down gun shows across the country without actually banning them.
These are the insidious ways some politicians think up to control us.
