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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency is proposing a new definition that could be used to eliminate 8 of 10 legal pocketknives in the United States right now, according to activists who are gearing up to fight the plan.
The federal bureaucracy is accepting comments – written only – that must be received by June 21 before its planned changes could become final, but Doug Ritter of KnifeRights.org, said the implications of the decision would be far-reaching, since many state and federal agencies depend on the agency's definitions to determine what is legal in the United States.
Originally posted by ziggy1706
imagine being detained or going to prison, booked under carrying a wilkonson shaver or gillette saftey blade as a concealed weapon lol.. sad to say seems to be the direction FED is going: (
shoot, all yuo gotta do, is take yuor used shaving razors, carefully pry the plastic up and off the bladed, use small scissors to pop out hte steel, and accumulate enough to melt or solder together till yuo got yuorself a crude, but effective blade/knife!
Originally posted by ziggy1706
LOL heres the best one to be banned.....saftey razors!!! in the form of saftey shaving razors, or hte 1 or 2 sided blades yuo can get at any hardware store or supermarket lol. Even paint stores carry em.
Originally posted by ziggy1706
8 out of 10? Why dont they go for all 10? How did they come up with teh number 10 anyways?
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Ritter said the effect of the proposed change would be that the new design in knives, many of which contain a tiny spring to help the user pull open the blade and lock it into position, would be classified alongside those true weapons where the user just presses a button and the blade is ejected.
Ritter suggested that up to 80 percent of the pocketknives sold in America today either are one-handed opening knives or so-called assisted opening knives – and they all suddenly would be classified as illegal switchblades.