Quoted: The fact isnt its illegal to carry on campus, its that its their campus. Just like any store or bank they can throw you off the proporty for whatever they want and theyve prohibited firearms.
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It's not their's, and that's where the issue is.
It's public property. Oregon law is very clear - our state preemption prohibits anyone from regulating the carry of firearms, concealed or otherwise, except as expressly authorized by the legislature - i.e., there has to be a written law, not "rule", that gives the specific body specific permission to regulate such.
Most stores or banks are private property, hence, they can make you do the hokey-pokey to enter their property, if they see fit.
As far as knife carry goes, we only have the one single law, as posted by PromptCritical.
Bernard Levine (
www.knife-expert.com) is a pretty knowledgable guy, and as he claims on his webpage, is called quite often to provide "expert" testimony on knives in court cases all the time (I've independently verified this).
As I've come to understand it, the only legally concealed-carryable blade is a folding knife.
Fixed-blade knives are considered dirks or daggers (depending on size - a dirk is a "small, readily concealable dagger"), so that eliminates them right there.
Folders don't fall into the ice pick, slingshot or metal knuckles (or similiar instrument) category, so you have to examine your folder based on the rest of the characteristics.
Specifically, "having a blade that projects or swings into position by force of a spring, or by centrifugal force"
Spring loaded is easy - if you've got an auto-knife, it's not legal to carry concealed.
The final part is where people get hammered (at least with quota-hungry cops).
A knife that has a blade that projects or swings into position by centrifugal force.
I have a knife that can be opened by flicking my wrist. Presto, centrifugal force. Technically, this knife is illegal to carry.
The problem, these days, is a lot of knives have some kind of opening assist or don't lock themselves closed, so they can be opened as such.
I was advised that if I'm ever stopped and searched, and an officer asks me to open my knife, that I use both hands to slowly and carefully open the knife and lock it back, rather than flick it open with my wrist, as there's quite a few people in the Multnomah County Jail who have been hammered for this.
Of course, it was also pointed out that these same people were stopped for any of a number of reasons, and that's the only charge they could use to hold them.
Realisitically, if you're not being a douche, any reasonable folding knife should be just fine and dandy.