Are switchblades useful during zombie attacks?
Or from ten thousand dudes in the 70s busting themselves up in the ribs and midsection, upside the head, in the face or in the Delicate Regions with*** their own ***nunchucks while trying to imitate Bruce Lee or the latest Kung Fu matinée. :D. That was entertaining and you could wait to laugh until the guy was doubled over and having difficulty breathing…
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One-handed knives have been around for quite a while now, and aren’t switchblades.
One hand knives have been around a while. Knives of this pattern date back to the 19th century. In use, the hook part of the tip of the main blade is caught on the edge of a pocket to open the blade. Supposedly, the pattern was developed to meet the demand among Civil War veterans who had lost arms in the war.
Banning switchblades, and refusing to even think about lifting the ban, is just the same nonsense we see from people who want to blame objects, rather than the other people who used them, when crimes are committed.
Well if I was a legislature you’ve just given me a good reason to investigate and see if changing or repealing the law would be a good idea.
So far Curious Mike is the only one who offered any compelling reason for a legislature to look at the law and consider changing it. I’m not at all worried about criminals with switchblades but at the same time I didn’t see any compelling reason to waste any time fighting to repeal the laws covering them.
Introduce a bill, an amendment, or a rider to another bill saying "Statute yadda yadda yadda is hereby repealed. Not much time in doing that.
All of the switchblades that I’ve owned, except for one, were absolutely worthless for cutting anything. I think that they should be legal.
BTW, wasn’t their a court ruling in the late 1980s that, MOL, did away with the ban?
What the fuck is MOL?
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Not on the state level it didn’t.
I was dispatched to a show about a year ago on a report of a guy selling switch blades. They were actually “spring assisted” knives but the AG’s office has determined those fall under the switchblade law. Anyway, they seemed quite nice for cutting.
BTW, we warned the guy he could not sell the knives but did not charge him or confiscate the knives.
It varies wildly by state. For some states there can be county/local ordinances on top of it that further limit certain knives. In a lot of places assisted open skirt the switchblade law (some of which are phrased close to yours) since they have to be manually opened part way and aren’t just operated by a button or switch. Some places if it’s too easy to open even a simple thumbstud or flipper knife quickly it falls foul of knife limitations depending on the officer/DA interpretation. Then you get in to blade size, folding vs fixed blade… It’s generally easier to carry a concealed handgun statewide and across state lines than a pistol.
Wut?
We’ve been over this. The little effort it takes to even put a rider onto a bill simply isn’t worth it. It’s unlikely to gain me any constituents, it doesn’t help get my bill passed, and my opponents might use the rider as leverage against the bill. At least it’s not worth the effort unless I take Curious Mike’s article into account.
Nonsense. A couple of states have legalized switch blades recently and it didn’t seem like it was the big ado you make it out to be.
I worked closely with my State Assembly Rep and State Senator to get this ridiculously archaic law changed. This brings to 36 the number of states that have re-legalized these useful tools. The system is slow, but it sometimes works.
Sorry for the zombie. Pull out your knives and stab it to death if you must. 
Legal in Nevada as of July as well.
Good job, pk! Congratulations on getting the system to work. It doesn’t happen without people like you.
Which, as I suppose you’ve amply demonstrated, was the real answer to your OP.
In the U.K. we are not allowed to own a gun let alone carry one what we do have is growing knife crime so there is a move by some to outlaw all knives which in theory would stop knife crime but is not practical as there are many uses for knives, my old lock blade which had a legitimate use is now illegal and is now limited to sharpening pencils when I am sketching. The only way to treat knife crime is by using harsh sentencing it does not matter if you attack someone with a gun, knife or an axe handle you are still going to course serious damage
Bad ass, pk! That’s some goddamn civic engagement in action right there.