Liberty MavenWill Obama Ban Pocket Knives?
June 26th, 2009 4:54 pm | by Mike Miller | Published in Big Government, Civil Liberties, Individual Responsibility, Liberty, Politics, law | 3 Responses
Ready for Knife Control?
Apparently, President Obama thinks that any pocket knife that can be opened with one hand should be considered a “switchblade” and should therefore be banned from being imported.
The Washington Times reports:
The Obama administration wants to expand the 50-year-old ban on importing “switchblades” to include folding knives that can be opened with one hand, stirring fears the government may on the path to outlawing most pocket knives.
Critics, including U.S. knife manufacturers and collectors, the National Rifle Association, sportsmen’s groups and a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill, say the rule change proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would rewrite U.S. law defining what constitutes a switchblade and potentially make de facto criminals of the estimated 35 million Americans who use folding knives.
Pocket knives of this sort are already illegal in England and Australia, prompting grassroots advocacy groups such as Knife Rights to pop up. Can it get any more asinine? I fear the answer is yes.
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June 26th, 2009 at 9:02 pm (#)
When will these people realize that guns and knives don't kill people and those that want to kill will find another way to do it anyway?
How far does this go? A bubble-wrapped world?
June 26th, 2009 at 9:17 pm (#)
So is it legal to stab someone with a knife that takes two hands to open? If not, why the ban?
July 1st, 2009 at 7:48 am (#)
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