Knife Rights URGENT ACTION ALERT: Email TX Committee to Set Floor Vote on HB 956
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- If you are a Texas resident, use Knife Rights’ Legislative Action Center (below) to urge members of the Texas House Calendars Committee to set Knife Rights’ Knife Law Reform Bill, HB 956, for a floor vote. HB 956 would remove from statute a number of places where Location-Restricted Knives (having blades over 5 1/2 inches) are banned.
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Knife Rights’ Ohio Knife Law Reform Effective Monday, April 12th
Knife Rights’ Ohio Knife Law Reform Bill Signed by Governor!
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Monday, April 12, is the enactment date for SB 140, Knife Rights’ Ohio Knife Law Reform bill. Effective April 12th, Ohio knife law is changed in the following manner:
Knife Rights Texas Knife Law Reform Bill Passes Out of House Committee
Knife Rights’ Texas Location Restricted Knife Law Reform Bill Introduced
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- The Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee held a yesterday for HB 956 that would remove from statute a number of places where Location-Restricted Knives (having blades over 5 1/2 inches) are banned. Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, gave testimony on the bill at the hearing. This hearing was finally held after Todd spent weeks lobbying in Austin to gain support for the bill and to get the bill scheduled for a hearing.
Knife Rights Ohio Knife Law Preemption Bill Introduced
Knife Rights’ Ohio Knife Law Reform Bill Signed by Governor!
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Ohio Representative Al Cutrona has introduced HB 243 to enact Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption in Ohio. This bill follows on Gov. DeWine’s signing of Knife Rights’ Ohio Knife Law Reform bill, SB 140, earlier this year. Those reforms become law on April 12th. Unfortunately, without knife law preemption, numerous cities and towns in Ohio are still able to ban many knives that are perfectly legal under Ohio’s statutes.
Texas Bill Would Restrict Retail Display of Knives
Texas Bill Would Restrict Retail Display of Knives
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- A Texas bill, HB 4415, has been introduced that would require “retail establishments” to display knives “in a locked transparent case accessible only with the assistance of an employee of the establishment.”
Knife Rights: Minnesota Constitutional Amendment Protecting Knives Introduced
Knife Rights: Minnesota Constitutional Amendment Protecting Knives Introduced
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Minnesota State Senator Paul Utke and Representatives Cal Bahr, Tim Miller, John Poston, Erik Mortensen, Eric Lucero, and Donald Raleigh have introduced, respectively, SF 1026 and HF 824, Constitutional Amendment bills “providing for the right of the people to acquire, keep, possess, transport,carry, transfer, and use arms including firearms, knives, or any other weapons and ammunition, components, and accessories for these arms.” Knife Rights appreciate our friends in Minnesota including knives in this proposed amendment.
Minnesota is one of only six states without specific constitutional protections for the right to bear arms (the others are California, Iowa, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York).
This is the first such proposed amendment, or strengthening of existing protections, that specifically calls out “knives” as being protected. While the commonsense interpretation of constitutional protections for “arms” would seem to generally protect knives (see Knives and the Second Amendment), that hasn’t historically been the result in every relevant state legal case that has been adjudicated. As recent examples, cases in Connecticut and Wisconsin on appeal affirmed that knives were protected; a New Mexico lower court decision that was never appealed said switchblades were not protected (raised as a defense in the case), and suggested other knives wouldn’t be protected either.
The proposed amendment includes much stronger protection of the right to bear arms, including knives, than is found in most such constitutional protections. These added protections are designed to counter infringements on the right to bear arms allowed by various courts over the years.
Knife Rights will let you know when it is time to contact your legislators to support these bills. If passed by a simple majority in both houses, voters would then vote on the amendment during the 2022 General Election. It must receive a “a majority of all the electors voting at the election” in order to be ratified.
About Knife Rights
Knife Rights is America’s grassroots knife owners’ organization; leading the fight to Rewrite Knife Law in America™ and forging a Sharper Future for all Americans™. Knife Rights efforts have resulted in 33 bills enacted repealing knife bans in 23 states and over 100 cities and towns since 2010.
Hearing Held on North Dakota Concealed Carry Knife Reform Bill
Knife Rights: North Dakota Concealed Carry Knife Reform Bill Introduced
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Despite a 90-degree temperature swing from his home base to -20F (not including wind chill), Todd Rathner, Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, was in North Dakota on Monday to testify and lobby in support of HB 1339, a bill to remove “switchblade, gravity knife, machete, scimitar, stiletto, sword [and] dagger” from the list of “dangerous weapons” that may not be carried concealed without a concealed weapon license.
Knife Rights will always show up, regardless of where or when or how damn cold it is. That’s how we got 33 bills enacted in 23 states since 2010.
You can view the hearing of the House Judiciary Committee at https://video.legis.nd.gov/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20210215/-1/19274#agenda_ starting at 9:37.
In the end, the committee voted to conduct a “summer study” session on the bill to work out some issues of concern. Todd is working closely with primary sponsor Rep. Luke Simons to address these concerns.
About Knife Rights
Knife Rights is America’s grassroots knife owners’ organization; leading the fight to Rewrite Knife Law in America™ and forging a Sharper Future for all Americans™. Knife Rights efforts have resulted in 33 bills enacted repealing knife bans in 23 states and over 100 cities and towns since 2010.
Knife Rights Vermont Knife Law Preemption Bill Introduced
Knife Rights Vermont Switchblade Ban Repeal Introduced
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Longtime Knife Rights friend Vermont Representative Patrick Brennan has filed H.254 to enact Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption in Vermont. The bill simply adds “knives” to the existing Vermont firearms preemption statute.
Knife Law Preemption repeals and prevents local ordinances more restrictive than state law which only serve to confuse or entrap law-abiding citizens traveling within or through the state. Preemption ensures citizens can expect consistent enforcement of state knife laws everywhere in a state.
Knife Rights passed the nation’s first Knife Law Preemption bill in Arizona in 2010 and has since passed preemption bills in Alaska, Georgia, Kansas, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Knife Rights will let you know when it is time to contact your legislators to support H.254.
About Knife Rights
Knife Rights is America’s grassroots knife owners’ organization; leading the fight to Rewrite Knife Law in America™ and forging a Sharper Future for all Americans™. Knife Rights efforts have resulted in 33 bills enacted repealing knife bans in 23 states and over 100 cities and towns since 2010.
Knife Rights: North Dakota Concealed Carry Knife Reform Bill Introduced
Knife Rights: North Dakota Concealed Carry Knife Reform Bill Introduced
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- A North Dakota bill to remove “switchblade, gravity knife, machete, scimitar, stiletto, sword [and] dagger” from the list of “dangerous weapons” that may not be carried concealed without a concealed weapon license, HB 1339, has been introduced. The bill retains the under the 5.5-inch limit for concealed carry of any knife without a CWL.
The bill is sponsored by Representatives Luke Simons, Rick Becker, Cole Christensen, Sebastian Ertelt, Jeff Hoverson, Terry Jones, Ben Koppelman, Bob Paulson, Nathan Toman, and Senator Oley Larsen.
Knife Rights will let you know when it is appropriate to engage your legislators to support HB 1339.
About Knife Rights
Knife Rights is America’s grassroots knife owners’ organization; Rewriting Knife Law in America™ and forging a Sharper Future for all Americans™. Knife Rights efforts have resulted in 33 bills enacted repealing knife bans in 23 states and over one hundred cities and towns since 2010, as well as numerous litigation victories.
Knife Rights URGENT ACTION ALERT! Washington Switchblade Ban Repeal Bill in Danger
Knife Rights URGENT ACTION ALERT! Washington Switchblade Ban Repeal Bill in Danger
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- The bipartisan Washington “Spring Blade” Ban Repeal bill, HB 1224, that would repeal the state’s ban on automatic knives is in danger of dying on the vine. If a hearing is not held by the end of the day on Monday, February 15, it will be dead for this session. The current hearing agenda does not include HB 1224!
If you are a Washington resident, please use Knife Rights’ Legislative Action Center to ask House Civil Rights & Judiciary Committee Chairman Drew Hansen to please hold a hearing on HB 1224: https://kniferights.org/resources/congressweb/#/40
DO IT TODAY and help us push this bill forward! Please pass this email along to anyone in Washington state who can help. The more emails from Washington residents that we generate to Chairman Hansen, the better.
HB 1224 would repeal the ban on sales and civilian possession of “spring blade” (automatic) knives, as well as specifically exclude them from the definition of “dangerous weapon.”
This bill passed the Senate in 2019 and 2020 by a vote of 46-1 and was previously voted out of this same House committee with a “do pass” recommendation in 2019 (10-2) and 2020 (12-3). It is way past time to repeal this archaic knife ban.
CONTACT Chairman Hansen TODAY!
About Knife Rights
Knife Rights is America’s grassroots knife owners’ organization; Rewriting Knife Law in America™ and forging a Sharper Future for all Americans™. Knife Rights efforts have resulted in 33 bills enacted repealing knife bans in 23 states and over one hundred cities and towns since 2010, as well as numerous litigation victories.