The case, Commonwealth v. Canjura, involves a man arrested for carrying a switchblade in Boston, Massachusetts. State law defines a switchblade as “a knife with a blade that is over 1.5 inches long and has an automatic spring release device that allows the blade to be released from the handle.” The punishment for carrying a switchblade can be up to five years in prison.
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There you have it: One commie State says yay, another says nay.
1.5 inches. The left's standard p.n.s size: "that's all you'll ever need".
ReplyDeleteIn Caetano v. Massachusetts, the US Supreme Court reversed the Massachusetts Supreme Court and held that stun guns were “arms” protected by the Second Amendment. That decision forced the Massachusetts Supreme Court to rule that switchblades are so protected. https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/14-10078
ReplyDeleteAfter all Switchblades are semi-auto assault weapons
ReplyDeleteThe one-hand knives are useful because you can put them away one handed....just the thing for folks like me that don't like cutting themselves, and consider a sharp little blade as daily clothing. If I were to decide to go forth and kill people, a fixed blade would be better. Criminals will not care either way, they get a free ride. Beware the day my kind decide length and grind and legality (hah!) are no longer important.....real swordsmen will once again ply the trade...which will happen anyway. Consider what Musashi did do a troupe with a bit of wood....as Chuck Yeager once said: it's the man, not the machine. All we want is to be left alone....
ReplyDeleteThe 2nd Amendment protects all arms and armor and fortifications and and and. It's not just guns. It's switchblades, flip-knives, brass knuckles, tasers, masers, lasers, neutron bombs and other stuff.
ReplyDeleteWhat part of 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed' do these jackkwagons not understand?
After the recent decision in the 9th Circus, folks in Hawai'i are open carrying even swords.
ReplyDeleteAs it should be.
I have carried an automatic knife for over 30 years.
ReplyDeleteAn automatic knife is for pussies. Mines got a clutch pedal and a stick shift, like a real knife should!
DeleteI have a pretty nice switchblade knife. In Michigan, you can't have one that deploys out the front. Plus it can only be sharpened on one edge. Otherwise they call it a dagger or a dirk or a stiletto and it is illegal.
ReplyDeleteI don't carry my switchblade knife very often, simply because the daily knife I do carry has a thumb stud which makes it faster to deploy since the automatic knife has a safety device on it that must be disengaged before opening.
And anyway the reason that I carry a knife is not for defensive use, but for daily use, opening boxes, cutting into a steak on the grill to check it to see if it is done, etc. I just use the knife that I have since it is actually one of the higher quality types. But I do have a box o' knives to sit alongside my box o' holsters.
ReplyDeleteMost folks don’t know the automatic knives were originally marketed to women. So they won’t break a nail prying open a regular pocket knife.
Never made sense to regulate how a knife opens, it’s what you do with it after it’s opened that counts.
Texas rewrote their knife laws several years ago. They realized that the Sharks and the Jets haven't rumbled in 50 years and it was time for a change. Actually, a young girl was arrested for carrying a Kitty Cat Keychain (a felony at the time) and one of the legislators realized how stupid some of the laws were.
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"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American.... [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people." (Tench Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.)
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