Good Knife Law Resource
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:23 pm
Here is a site that I stumbles on that is a very good reference for knife laws.
http://pweb.netcom.com/~brlevine/sta-law.htm
I thought this was particularly interesting.
http://pweb.netcom.com/~brlevine/sta-law.htm
I thought this was particularly interesting.
JeffFEDERAL KNIFE LAWS and Switchblade Knives
State and local ordinances are not the only knife laws. The
federal government also has its own knife laws. Federal law
bans interstate commerce in switchblade knives. The only
exemption to this federal ban is direct sale to government
agencies by manufacturers.
Even before Congress banned interstate commerce in
switchblade and gravity knives in 1958, in response to media
frenzy about "juvenile delinquency," several states had
already enacted more or less absolute bans within their own
borders. The first was New Jersey, in 1956, followed quickly
by New York. Today about half the states have outright bans
on switchblade knives, while another dozen or so states ban
carry and/or commerce in switchblades.