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Posted: 6/8/2009 4:41:46 PM EDT
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U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) has proposed revoking earlier rulings that assisted opening knives are not switchblades. The proposed new rule would not only outlaw assisted opening knives, its broad definition of a switchblade would also include one-handed opening knives and could be easily interpreted to cover most other pocket knives, even simple old-fashioned slip-joints.
Note that CBP's interpretation of the Federal Switchblade Act forms the basis for national, state and even local law and judicial rulings in many cases. This ruling by CBP is NOT limited to just imports. This WILL affect virtually everyone who carries a pocket knife, no matter the type! |
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Posted: 6/8/2009 4:44:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/8/2009 4:45:34 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/8/2009 4:46:00 PM EDT
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You cant do a search for "knives"?
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=883759 http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=884002 |
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Posted: 6/8/2009 4:46:03 PM EDT
[#5]
MEGA DUPE.
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Posted: 6/8/2009 4:47:04 PM EDT
[#6]
Can't be too many dupes on this.
Good grief. 
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Posted: 6/8/2009 4:49:30 PM EDT
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Knives that can be opened with one hand? Wouldn't that pretty much ban every pocket knife, short of fixed blades.
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Posted: 6/8/2009 4:50:15 PM EDT
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Lock my dupe please
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Posted: 6/8/2009 4:50:47 PM EDT
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Move to Britain, no plans to ban these type of knives…
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Posted: 6/8/2009 4:51:14 PM EDT
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Jesus christ.
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Posted: 6/8/2009 4:51:27 PM EDT
[#11]
You mean the place you can't carry a knife without lawful and good excuse??
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Posted: 6/8/2009 4:58:35 PM EDT
[#12]
Unless they are made in the United States, right?
If an American company made them here, what authority would customs have over them? |
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Posted: 6/8/2009 4:59:21 PM EDT
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Next your gonna tell me they want to ban ammo without a serial number. Come on.
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Posted: 6/8/2009 4:59:26 PM EDT
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You've got to be shitting me.
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Posted: 6/8/2009 5:00:09 PM EDT
[#15]
Rotten cocksucking lawmakers are at it again.
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Posted: 6/8/2009 5:00:30 PM EDT
[#16]
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You mean the place you can't carry a knife without lawful and good excuse?? Ouch! That's going to burn. |
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Posted: 6/8/2009 5:01:03 PM EDT
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Unless they are made in the United States, right? If an American company made them here, what authority would customs have over them? Switchblade Act of 1958 US Commerce Department |
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Posted: 6/8/2009 6:16:28 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Unless they are made in the United States, right? If an American company made them here, what authority would customs have over them? Switchblade Act of 1958 US Commerce Department So, customs can change any law they want, without any legislative action? |
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Posted: 6/8/2009 6:21:30 PM EDT
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No but they can make regulations to enforce a law
Like they are proposnig here |
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Posted: 6/10/2009 5:32:47 PM EDT
[#20]
btt
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Posted: 6/10/2009 5:34:58 PM EDT
[#21]
ASSISTED OPENING KNIVES TO BE BANNED IN US
that is simply inaccurate. Even switchblades aren't banned, the only thing that is restricted is interstate commerce. Switchblades are perfectly legal in several states. |
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Posted: 6/10/2009 5:37:18 PM EDT
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Actually no its not.
If assisted opening knives are banned from import, the vast majority of knives will be banned. Most knives these days are foreign. Switchblades are only legal if owned before passage of the Switchblade Act of 1958 and cannot be taken across state lines |
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Posted: 6/10/2009 5:38:15 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/10/2009 5:46:04 PM EDT
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Actually no its not. If assisted opening knives are banned from import, the vast majority of knives will be banned. Most knives these days are foreign. Switchblades are only legal if owned before passage of the Switchblade Act of 1958 and cannot be taken across state lines I wasn't aware that MOD or Microtech had been around for 50+ years
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Posted: 6/10/2009 5:48:48 PM EDT
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news to me
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Posted: 6/10/2009 5:50:23 PM EDT
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Actually no its not. If assisted opening knives are banned from import, the vast majority of knives will be banned. Most knives these days are foreign. Switchblades are only legal if owned before passage of the Switchblade Act of 1958 and cannot be taken across state lines Link? |
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Posted: 6/10/2009 5:57:20 PM EDT
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I will post the law:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode15/usc_sup_01_15_10_29.html § 1243. Manufacture, sale, or possession within specific jurisdictions; penalty
Whoever, within any Territory or possession of the United States, within Indian country (as defined in section 1151 of title 18), or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States (as defined in section 7 of title 18), manufactures, sells, or possesses any switchblade knife, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 1242. Introduction, manufacture for introduction, transportation or distribution in interstate commerce; penalty
Whoever knowingly introduces, or manufactures for introduction, into interstate commerce, or transports or distributes in interstate commerce, any switchblade knife, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. |
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Posted: 6/10/2009 6:05:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/10/2009 6:08:16 PM EDT
[#29]
They can try. I'm not giving up mine.
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Posted: 6/11/2009 7:20:56 PM EDT
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Quoted:
I will post the law: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode15/usc_sup_01_15_10_29.html § 1243. Manufacture, sale, or possession within specific jurisdictions; penalty
Whoever, within any Territory or possession of the United States, within Indian country (as defined in section 1151 of title 18), or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States (as defined in section 7 of title 18), manufactures, sells, or possesses any switchblade knife, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 1242. Introduction, manufacture for introduction, transportation or distribution in interstate commerce; penalty
Whoever knowingly introduces, or manufactures for introduction, into interstate commerce, or transports or distributes in interstate commerce, any switchblade knife, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. The Switchblade Act only bans the possession of switchblades in "Federal lands, Indian reservations, military bases, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and other protectorates". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchblade#Federal_law Read that. There are restrictions on interstate commerce and possession in certain Federal areas, but that's all. Federal law does not ban the possession of switchblades among the states. |
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Posted: 6/11/2009 7:21:37 PM EDT
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duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupe.
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Posted: 6/11/2009 7:27:39 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Quoted:
I will post the law: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode15/usc_sup_01_15_10_29.html § 1243. Manufacture, sale, or possession within specific jurisdictions; penalty
Whoever, within any Territory or possession of the United States, within Indian country (as defined in section 1151 of title 18), or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States (as defined in section 7 of title 18), manufactures, sells, or possesses any switchblade knife, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 1242. Introduction, manufacture for introduction, transportation or distribution in interstate commerce; penalty
Whoever knowingly introduces, or manufactures for introduction, into interstate commerce, or transports or distributes in interstate commerce, any switchblade knife, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. The Switchblade Act only bans the possession of switchblades in "Federal lands, Indian reservations, military bases, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and other protectorates". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchblade#Federal_law Read that. There are restrictions on interstate commerce and possession in certain Federal areas, but that's all. Federal law does not ban the possession of switchblades among the states. Ya, thats why they just give us benchmades........ |
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Posted: 6/11/2009 7:35:50 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Quoted:
I will post the law: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode15/usc_sup_01_15_10_29.html § 1243. Manufacture, sale, or possession within specific jurisdictions; penalty
Whoever, within any Territory or possession of the United States, within Indian country (as defined in section 1151 of title 18), or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States (as defined in section 7 of title 18), manufactures, sells, or possesses any switchblade knife, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 1242. Introduction, manufacture for introduction, transportation or distribution in interstate commerce; penalty
Whoever knowingly introduces, or manufactures for introduction, into interstate commerce, or transports or distributes in interstate commerce, any switchblade knife, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. The Switchblade Act only bans the possession of switchblades in "Federal lands, Indian reservations, military bases, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and other protectorates". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchblade#Federal_law Read that. There are restrictions on interstate commerce and possession in certain Federal areas, but that's all. Federal law does not ban the possession of switchblades among the states. Right but it bans commerce.between the states So you have to violate that to possess a post 1958 switchblade |
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Posted: 6/11/2009 7:44:20 PM EDT
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not really, google for "switchblade kit"
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Posted: 6/11/2009 7:50:58 PM EDT
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there is no good reason anybody needs to have a knife that can be opened with one hand.
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Posted: 6/11/2009 7:52:08 PM EDT
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Dupe of U.S. Government Trying To Take Away Our Pocket Knives! Any knife that can be opened with one hand. No kidding, he even posted in one of the other threads |
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Posted: 6/11/2009 7:52:47 PM EDT
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Dupe
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