The tool is just that, an inanimate object.
The "intent" of the person charged is where the case will be made or broken by your defense attys [ if they are smart enough ].
As well, the proof would have be in evidence that you knew of that video, perhaps having bought that video, not strictly on the fact you carried a certain product.
If that were the case, the KaBar could be illustrated as a killing weapon, afterall, it has been used in the military for decades, not only as a "tool", but also as a "weapon" of opportunity.
Ot take the Striders as an example. The smart prosecutor could make the case for soldiers carrying them into combat, and thouhg one may never have been used for killing, it could be stated that these folders are used in a combat threatre [ the inference to the jury would be the same, that you are carrying a knife that combat soldiers carry ].
Or to go one step further, one good prosecutor could take the ER straights, whose design of some were expressly made for miliary ops. The list is endless in reality if the prosecutor wants to dig deep enough.
It's the "intent" of your carrying that weapon that will be the issue if your attys are good enough, not the folder you are carrying or the adcopy of that product [ which you may or may not have been aware of to begin with ].
Brownie
Every felony under Ohio law has a required mental element ("mens rea"). In this case, the mental element of CCW is "knowlingly," not "intentionally":
"No person shall
knowingly carry. . . any deadly weapon . . . ." ("deadly weapon" as defined in Post 170 above).
"Knowingly" miodifies "carry, allowing a defense that you did not know the knife was in your pocket, bag, glove compartment.
Under Ohio law it is irrelevant that the defendant did not know the knife was a "deadly weapon." The elements of the offense are made out if: 1) the defendant knowlingly carried the knife; and 2) the knife fits the statutory definition of "deadly weapon." (Hence the maxim, "Ignorance of the law is no defense.")
(An affirmative defense of reasonable necessity for self-defense may be attempted. )
I would not advise concealed carry of a Ka-Bar, an ER, or any Strider, given the available evidence that they are made as combat weapons. Many Cold Steel products, some not knives, fall into the same category of risk.
Can it happen? Yes. Ohio citizens have been convicted of carrying knives under the CCW statute (2923.12), a felony.
Of course, the CCW statute does not preclude open carry, but folks have been charged with disturbing the peace or creating panic for open carry of weapons.
Law varies by jurisdiction, from place-to-place, and from one LEO to another.
