Knife Rights
The bill removing the prohibition on automatic unfolding knives cleared the senate. On to the house. Summary here.
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March 5th, 2014 at 10:22 pm
Excellent. Also the blade length restriction removal, that’s almost more useful.
I still want someone to get off their butt and make a “Switchblade law repeal” and “Knife Preemption” gif like the various gun rights and carry law ones for the Kniferights page.
Cause right up front? Too hard for me. 🙂
March 6th, 2014 at 9:47 am
Bah. Tennessee is really making me regret leaving these days…
My understanding is that the length law was never really enforced, but was instead used as a tack-on charge for other crimes. However, if that really is the case, it needs to go the way of the Dodo and fast. Good to see they are working on that :).
March 6th, 2014 at 10:29 am
Here in TX the knife laws prohibit carry in public of specific items like swords, spears, and of course daggers, “including but not limited to a dirk, stiletto, and poniard” plus of course the Bowie knife (which goes undefined in code but which for one case a century ago included a butcher’s cleaver, because judges in Texas know that knife attacks using cleavers aren’t to be encouraged).
I am not sure what a poniard is, but some legislator must have had a bad experience here in TX with one at some point (pun intended).
March 6th, 2014 at 11:30 am
Didn’t the switchblade piece in TN fail last year when some lunatic Sheriff’s association member testified that the sound of a switchblade opening had the same primal affect that as a pump shotgun being chambered?
That is what they base their logic on…the scary sound something makes.
March 6th, 2014 at 1:31 pm
I’m certainly no knife expert, but I carry a Benchmade with a button on the blade that I can open at, or very near, “switchblade” speed.
It’s a silly existing law and it should be thrown back into the leftist trash heap where it came from.
March 7th, 2014 at 12:25 am
Agreed Crawler, mine either have a button on the blade or a flipper blade. Honestly, given the unfailing nature of the flipper I’m not sure I’d even ‘upgrade’ to a full automatic, given that a decent quality one is less reliable at three times the price.
But the law is stupid and outmoded to the point of being both ineffective and arbitrary.
March 7th, 2014 at 2:17 pm
Interesting that how one opens a folding knife is *almost* more important than what one does with it.
I wish other states would copy/paste Arizona knife laws so I could quit pulling my hair out trying to comply with multiple jurisdictions twisted panties.