Kind of like Jessica Rabbit: "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way"
Anyway, Maine recently repealed laws prohibiting switchblades. Let freedom ring.
Why are switchblades illegal? Ridiculous??
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Kind of like Jessica Rabbit: "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way"
Anyway, Maine recently repealed laws prohibiting switchblades. Let freedom ring.
Basically anything that is fun gets restricted, registered, banned,outlawed in the peoples republic of NY. Just last year they finely allowed sparklers to be sold to celebrate the 4 of July!
No problem in Florida for at least 10 years now. Although I'm not bringing a knife to a gunfight. Joe
grcoffman104
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Texas leagized the switchblade
Ether last session or one before. Now retired I take the mandatory classes to keep peace officer license active, " just in case". Hell no dept wants a 60 year old gunfighter in this day and age. I'll just set on porch with my schnouzers and pondify.
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Ether last session or one before. Now retired I take the mandatory classes to keep peace officer license active, " just in case". Hell no dept wants a 60 year old gunfighter in this day and age. I'll just set on porch with my schnouzers and pondify.
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S&WIowegan
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Tommy guns, silencers and switchblades were legislated against in reaction to news stories and movies. The funny thing is the Feds never really made full-auto weapons or silencers illegal, they just required anyone wanting to purchase fill out forms and pay a $200. fee. Some states, including Iowa, made full autos and silencers illegal. The reason these laws get passed is a combination of mass hysteria, political pandering and weapon-haters of all types.
Reality makes these kind of laws ridiculous. Gangsters in the 1930s stole Tommy guns and BARs from police stations and Armories rather than pay. So the new laws were meaningless. Silencers were never "silent" either but in the movies they screwed one on revolvers.
It took us until 2016 to get the legislature to legalize suppressors. It wasn't easy because the haters and the press campaigned against it by trotting out all the old lies.
Our Senate is controlled by Dems 26 to 24 and the Dems routinely refuse to allow any pro-gun legislation to progress to a vote. Why? Because they know many "country" Dems would vote for it.
Reality makes these kind of laws ridiculous. Gangsters in the 1930s stole Tommy guns and BARs from police stations and Armories rather than pay. So the new laws were meaningless. Silencers were never "silent" either but in the movies they screwed one on revolvers.
It took us until 2016 to get the legislature to legalize suppressors. It wasn't easy because the haters and the press campaigned against it by trotting out all the old lies.
Our Senate is controlled by Dems 26 to 24 and the Dems routinely refuse to allow any pro-gun legislation to progress to a vote. Why? Because they know many "country" Dems would vote for it.
Absalom
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Oregon allows automatic knives, possession as well as carry as long as they are not concealed; belt pouch is okay based on advice from LEO's I've worked with.
I've never seen any appeal or usefulness in the "traditional" switchblades of 1950s/60s youth gang fashion, but I have a Gerber 06 Auto (top in photo) I really like mostly for outdoor applications. That big push button and the safety are easy to operate even with cold wet hands (not unusual here in the PacNW) and thick gloves, when opening with a thumb stud would be hard or impossible.
I've never seen any appeal or usefulness in the "traditional" switchblades of 1950s/60s youth gang fashion, but I have a Gerber 06 Auto (top in photo) I really like mostly for outdoor applications. That big push button and the safety are easy to operate even with cold wet hands (not unusual here in the PacNW) and thick gloves, when opening with a thumb stud would be hard or impossible.
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Are you all aware there is a "Knife Rights Assoc." which fights various state legislation, just like the NRA does for our firearms.
Arik
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Correct. There are no menacing mechanical devices in kitchen knives that make the dreaded deadly swishing clink sound.
I'm gonna start carrying a kitchen knife or a clever
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I owned a couple when I was a kid. I remember them as being junk. Blade always wobbled a bit. No real purpose to a switchblade other than stabbing someone. It's a stabbing weapon. I'd rather have an assisted opening SOG.
Haven't seen one in years. I used to have a shoebox full of knives I took off people. Never bothered locking them up. My Sgt would have ripped me a new one if I brought in a BS collar like that. When I retired there must have been about 40 knives in there. All cheap Chinese made junk that I wouldn't trust to be used more than once.
Haven't seen one in years. I used to have a shoebox full of knives I took off people. Never bothered locking them up. My Sgt would have ripped me a new one if I brought in a BS collar like that. When I retired there must have been about 40 knives in there. All cheap Chinese made junk that I wouldn't trust to be used more than once.
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you can carry concealed with a FL Concealed Weapon or
Firearms License
Firearms License
LOL goofy laws.. Like I said law makers praying on peoples emotions.
Part of the problem is that there is far too little praying going on by the law makers.
I have a similar recollection of switchblades when I was a kid, although the first one I owned, obtained from my next-door neighbor in the early fifties with the permission of my parents, was clearly an otherwise conventional pocket knife, NOT a stabbing tool. Some of today's switchblades, however, are quite different. The Benchmade Emerson-design "tanto"-bladed auto that I purchased is a high-quality general-purpose folder. There are plenty of others that fit this description.
kbm6893
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The quality assisted opening knives made by SOG and others have an edged blade suitable for use. The switchblades I owned and my friends owned were very dull and were only good for stabbing. Matter of fact, I remember the blade on my first one broke off when I stabbed it into a wooden fence at my middle school during summer break. I know my brother bought me one of them at a flea market.
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Inusuit
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The City of Cheyenne recently repealed an old ordinance that made brass knuckles, slung shots, saps, and weighted gloves illegal to carry.
The movie "Blackboard Jungle" created a lot of this histeria against self-opening knives! In 1960 I had been working as a lighting person at a local amatuer theator when I joined the army. I had used a self-opening knife as it was convenient to grab a wire in one hand and use the knife to strip the insulation with the other. Well, you can imagine how popular I was when I showed up for basic with that knife. Lying Bozos said they would "hold it for me until the conclusion of training". I guess I am still in training 'cause I never saw my knife again!
NYS does allow an exemption for possession and carry of a switchblade or gravity knife
265.20 Exemptions
a. Sections 265.01, ... 265.10, ... 265.15, ... shall not apply to:
...
6. Possession of a switchblade or gravity knife for use while hunting, trapping or fishing by a person carrying a valid license issued to him pursuant to section 11-0713 of the environmental conservation law.
But when not engaged in those licensed lawful activitys:
265.01 Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree
Class A Misdemeanor
A person is guilty of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree when:
(1) He possesses any ... switchblade knife
The knife law is a screwy as the pistol permit laws in NYS,,
Just be happy with your new Sparklers that Uncle Andrew gave you
and don't ask for anything more...
265.20 Exemptions
a. Sections 265.01, ... 265.10, ... 265.15, ... shall not apply to:
...
6. Possession of a switchblade or gravity knife for use while hunting, trapping or fishing by a person carrying a valid license issued to him pursuant to section 11-0713 of the environmental conservation law.
But when not engaged in those licensed lawful activitys:
265.01 Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree
Class A Misdemeanor
A person is guilty of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree when:
(1) He possesses any ... switchblade knife
The knife law is a screwy as the pistol permit laws in NYS,,
Just be happy with your new Sparklers that Uncle Andrew gave you
and don't ask for anything more...
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