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Yep. because an assisted-opening knife requires applying pressure to the BLADE, not the handle, it doesn't fit the legal definition. However, if your knife can be opened by "flinging" it towards the ground, you are in possession of a switchblade. Virtually any knife with a thumb stud or other one-handed opening mechanism can be made to do this if you really want to.SCone wrote:Since tha law states...
Switchblade knife means any knife that has a blade that folds, closes, or retracts into the handle or sheath, and that:
(A) opens automatically by pressure applied to a button or other device located on the handle; or
(B) opens or releases a blade from the handle or sheath by the force of gravity or by the application of centrifugal force.
Almost anything that helps open a knife could make the knife illegal.
Liko81 wrote:Yep. because an assisted-opening knife requires applying pressure to the BLADE, not the handle, it doesn't fit the legal definition. However, if your knife can be opened by "flinging" it towards the ground, you are in possession of a switchblade. Virtually any knife with a thumb stud or other one-handed opening mechanism can be made to do this if you really want to.SCone wrote:Since tha law states...
Switchblade knife means any knife that has a blade that folds, closes, or retracts into the handle or sheath, and that:
(A) opens automatically by pressure applied to a button or other device located on the handle; or
(B) opens or releases a blade from the handle or sheath by the force of gravity or by the application of centrifugal force.
Almost anything that helps open a knife could make the knife illegal.
Who writes these laws?Simple: there was no logic. They were the "assault weapons" of the 1950s, where media hysteria created a hue and cry to "do something!"Mark F wrote:I have never really understood the "LOGIC" behind outlawing switchblades or similar knives.
Right on; it was the "gang weapon" when gangs still had the desire to "rumble" rather than just go out and shoot up each other's houses in drive-bys. Now the gangs have resorted to guns, and so there's renewed efffort to ban them. In contrast, most people know exactly what a switchblade is, know how to work one, and it's an oddity to see one, but few people raise the hue and cry that a switchblade is out and about in polite society. I mean, they used to be gentlemen's knives, and in informal circles they are once again.KBCraig wrote:Simple: there was no logic. They were the "assault weapons" of the 1950s, where media hysteria created a hue and cry to "do something!"Mark F wrote:I have never really understood the "LOGIC" behind outlawing switchblades or similar knives.
Slashing with a razor sharp knife is a proven technique among the street-wise. You want to kill, you stab. You want to be left alone, you slice and dice. The horror of seeing their own flesh flayed open is just too much for most people to maintain focus. Now, with the ready availability of box cutters you don't even have to bother with a "real" knife. On account of their efficacy, I would not be surprised to see box cutters singled out as prohibited weapons in some states.I am much more worried about getting diced up by a razor box-cutter
Brilliantly described here by Cowtown Cop.casingpoint wrote:You want to be left alone, you slice and dice. The horror of seeing their own flesh flayed open is just too much for most people to maintain focus.
casingpoint wrote:Slashing with a razor sharp knife is a proven technique among the street-wise. You want to kill, you stab. You want to be left alone, you slice and dice. The horror of seeing their own flesh flayed open is just too much for most people to maintain focus. Now, with the ready availability of box cutters you don't even have to bother with a "real" knife. On account of their efficacy, I would not be surprised to see box cutters singled out as prohibited weapons in some states.I am much more worried about getting diced up by a razor box-cutter
The karambit appears to combine elements of the box cutter and the knife into one tool:
If you find yourself in a real tight without a real weapon, a beer bottle broken over the bar or your opponet's head makes one heck of a good impromptu slashing instrumentality. I'm sure some here will recall the old Houston icehouse protocol of yore. Airline, Market St., Telephone Road, Uvalde Road, Old Highway 90, Black Cat Ridge across the San Jacinto River from Humble, etc.
Would you be willing to spend the night in jail to tell your story? That was the option that NYPD offered my son over a $35 knife.flintknapper wrote:I would gladly go to court over it.
its not the $35 its the principleiratollah wrote:Would you be willing to spend the night in jail to tell your story? That was the option that NYPD offered my son over a $35 knife.flintknapper wrote:I would gladly go to court over it.
Is their police department willing to be sued for false arrest?iratollah wrote:Would you be willing to spend the night in jail to tell your story? That was the option that NYPD offered my son over a $35 knife.flintknapper wrote:I would gladly go to court over it.
I still want to know what information led Roshi to this conclusion. There had to be something...Roshi wrote:Now that Texas has decided that assisted opening knives are switchblades...
flintknapper wrote:Is their police department willing to be sued for false arrest?iratollah wrote:Would you be willing to spend the night in jail to tell your story? That was the option that NYPD offered my son over a $35 knife.flintknapper wrote:I would gladly go to court over it.
You relinquished "principle" over an officers mistaken idea of what a "gravity knife" is... and gave up $35.00 to boot. He knew you would.
