Sean talks about NC’s foolish knife laws, and how fixed blades are prohibited. Now that being said most knife laws restrict knives on opening action (Things like switch-blades, Gravity-Knives, and Balisongs) and on blade length. This means a fixed blade knife with a short blade often squeaks by under most knife laws. That’s why I LOVE my Ka-Bar TDI as a defensive weapon where I can’t carry a gun, or as a backup/retention weapon. Seems Sean likes them as much as I do, he linked this cool video.
Refuse to be a victim!
speaking of videos, I posted the Jade video as a post.
I’ll see what I can do in the next couple of years to get these laws changed. I’d hate to think that you’d never get back this direction because the laws suck.
Nah, I have a lot of Friends down that way, I’ll be back, and I’ll conform to whatever laws y’all have, tho it would be nice if the laws don’t suck next Time I’m down that way.
The TDI is just over 3 inches, so it’s a no-go here in Delaware.
The one I linked is just a hair over 2″
I think Michigan might have Mass beat when it comes to knives. It is illegal to carry ANY “dangerous weapon” concealed on or about your person. The only exception is for a “hunting knife adapted and carried as such”
http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?mcl-750-227
i dunno how the MI law Stan cited gets interpreted in practice, though. i know i see knife clips in the edges of people’s pockets on a routine basis where i live, and nobody’s ever much batted an eye at my griptilian even though i make no secret of carrying it.
actually, i understand my knife might be half an inch over some blade length limit or other. nobody’s ever asked to measure it, either. it’s a bit cumbersome for any fine-detailed work, i must admit; been thinking of one of these for simpler tasks.
The three inch limit only applies if you are carrying it with intent to do harm to another, or something like that. The definition of deadly weapon tends to be up to the officer at the scene and then later the DA.
You’re probably fine carrying you’re average pocket knife around, but if you were to stab someone with it, it would magically become a concealed deadly weapon and you’d be hit with that charge as well.
It’s too nebulous of a law and that’s why I don’t like it.
Hey! Anyone want to play Constitutional Jeopardy? The answer is:
“Sec. 20. General warrants.
General warrants, whereby any officer or other person may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of the act committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, whose offense is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are dangerous to liberty and shall not be granted.”
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Sec. 30. Militia and the right to bear arms.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed;”
Anyone? Anyone?
The question is: “The violation of which two SUPERIOR laws–in the document that establishes the government in the state of North Carolina–are a sure sign of corrupt, worthless pubic sector?”
If they put knife laws to a referendum–no campaigning (brainwashing) allowed–maybe six people, tops, would actually give a shit about criminal activity perpetrated by sentient knives. Pretty much everyone else owns a knife, or is intelligent enough to realize that kitchen knives are everywhere and regularly purchased by children, pets and dullards, and those have a fixed blade a hell of a lot longer than a pocket knife.