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It has always struck me as the height of insanity that my MA LTC allows me to carry pretty much any handgun that I want, yet I cannot carry a knife with a 3" blade that has a little spring inside it to help the blade deploy. Ditto a knife with a double-edge, a balisong, or a gravity knife. This isn't limited to MA, either - there are many states where assisted openers or other types of knives are illegal, yet CCW permits are issued. Some states have it right and cover everything under the CCW - concealed carry weapon being the operative word. Others, like New Hampshire, have removed all prohibitions on knives so they can be carried regardless.
In any case, it's blatantly obvious that - like most of our gun laws - the prohibition on assisted openers or even switchblades is a complete farce. The Crown opens just as fast as the assisted Drone, and I'd wager that even a fully automatic knife wouldn't deploy much more than a tenth of a second faster - certainly the difference would be too fast for the human eye to resolve. There is, quite simply, no reason rooted in physics as to why an assisted or automatic knife would be more dangerous than one with a manual opening...
Then again, who ever said that those who make our laws know a damn thing about the subject they're attempting to legislate against?
That is all.
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Like most prohibitions the law makers seem to look at prohibiting things that would make THEM more dangerous if they were a criminal.
They never seem to take into account skill and practice.
For example the 33 round magazine. Care to venture a guess on who could shoot 33 aimed rounds faster...
Your local representative with a 33rd happy stick or Bob Vogle with 10 rd mags?
I is, and has always been about petty power and control.
Guffaw in AZ
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I have this incredibly cheap knife I bought for $10 at WalMart - just something to whittle with when I camp, and to carry around for package opening duties, etc. No springs, just a little knob on the back-end of the blade. But I can have it open and ready for use a second after it clears my pocket. How much faster would a "switchblade" be? Not enough to make a damned bit of difference.
So, yeah. The restrictions are nonsensical, at best.
All Steel 1911: Finest Kind
Brass Knuckles: Bad News
Also Massachusetts bans gravity knives which strike me as an evolutionary dead-end for knives...but damn we need a LAW!!!!!
Knife laws are even more crazy and stupid than gun laws. There are actual reasons for this. Original knife law was written in the 18th and 19th centuries when carrying a "dirk or dagger" was seen as a violent act, if you had a big knife you were going to carve on someone, while guns were viewed as defensive weapons (go figure). This has colored weapons law ever since.
Join Knife Rights. If not then one day we be like England where most knives are banned.
Dude, in DE you can carry a BOMB if you have a CCDW. It's a "deadly weapon" statute
Then in the section under "deadly weapons" they list "bomb" in the statute. They also list an ice pick, billy club, etc.
Video? VIDEO?? Way to set the bar higher!
Oh... and a comment...
Izz Law.... Izz not make sense!
Lots of knife laws seem to have come
from reaction to Hollyweird movies.
Switchblade restrictions came along after some teen delinquent flicks in the 1950s, if I recall correctly.
Laws should not be made due to public hysteria and political use of it, but
often are.
I am surprised that no one brought up the ADA argument, where spring assisted opening knives enable those without effective use of a hand (stroke, combat veteran with wound, amputee) to open a knife one-handed without using their teeth. Thumb studs help but not for those with an injury to the knife-wielding hand. The problem is not the speed or ease of opening a knife, it is what the knife-wielder does with it after the knife is opened. Laws banning switchblades, dirks, daggers, etc., do nothing to diminish violent intent, just affect tool selection and availability for those who would follow the law.
Indiana's also crazy.
Shall Issue state with no training requirements, lifetime permits and equal standing on Open Carry versus Concealed Carry but no "Knife with blade that opens automatically or may be propelled".
Oh and machine guns are legal here, but not throwing stars or short barreled shot guns.
Hand held stun gun = BAD
Class 3 Subgun = OK
Shakes head and walks away.....
Stickman
Switchblade ban was a product of "Blackboard Jungle". Kind of like the AWB being the product of Bill Bennett spending too much time watching "Miami Vice" when he wasn't gambling.
Love. This.
It always amuses me that I can and do legally conceal my handgun when I visit the Virginia Legislature but they still wand me for "other" things like knives. In Virginia it is a "Concealed Handgun Permit". Pointy things are off the approved list.
Until it opens it isn't dangerous at all. After it opens, who cares how it got that way?
The difference between "time of opening" for modern non-assisted, assisted, and automatic opening knives is comparable to the pause taken after the period above.
Here in Texas it is illegal to carry a Bowie knife. But OK to own one.
(Teeth Grinding Noise)
With knives, instant lethality comes from length. Just like we have the 12 inches standard for handgun penetration, knives have a literal minimum distance to those juicy organs. A cut would have to go through a lot of bone and generate a lot of trauma to put someone down(vs a bleed out). That is left to blades of considerable size and heft.
But yet small knives that open at the push of a button is some sort of death ray?
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