Posted: 10/15/2013 10:04:09 AM EDT
| Any issues with carrying an assisted-opening knife with a Wisconsin Concealed Carry License? I'm thinking of gifting something like this to my son in law, but I want to make sure it's kosher. |
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I'd have to side with Perlman. Any knife with a spring used to assist in opening "could" be considered a switchblade. IMO, yes owning it would be perceived by most as a switchblade as WI defines.
I guess the bottom line is if it is worth the ass pain of perception, citation, and judicial process to defend your interpretation. Wisconsin - 941.24. Possession of switchblade knife. (1) Whoever manufactures, sells or offers to sell, transports, purchases, possesses or goes armed with any knife having a blade which opens by pressing a button, spring or other device in the handle or by gravity or by a thrust or movement is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor... Hell, my CQC-7, Buck Strider, etc. are folders without a spring assist that I open with a flick of my wrist to ease in operation. I guess it could be considered a switchblade by some because of my technique. IMO It is just another outdated WI law that needs to go away. V OUT |
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With a spring assist you still have to put your finger on the blade to open it, unlike a switchblade or gravity type knife. If a spring assisted knife is illegal than a lot of retailers should be convicted of selling an illegal knife. they sell them at walmart 
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If you're a square tax-payer going about your business, and not bothering anybody, I'd venture that your chances of getting jammed up over a 3.25" bladed WalMart pocket knife are zero.
Most modern pocket knives 'could be' interpreted to violate the WI statute. Hundreds of thousands of them are being toted around in the pockets of WI residents every day. When is the last time someone was charged? |
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Exactly. I've been carrying a Benchmade/Emerson Super CQC-7 since '95 and never an issue. Shrug... it's obviously a piece of feel-good legislation.
I think you're more likely to be hung up on municipal ordinances about knives, which by law is never more than a civil forfeiture, not even a misdemeanor. |