US attempts to ban pocket knives Wednesday, 10 June 2009
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US ATTEMPTS TO RE-DEFINE SWITCHBLADES – WOULD MAKE MOST POCKET KNIVES ILLEGAL
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!
Download the 63 page CPB document and read it for yourself.
Knife Rights has sent a letter to CBP requesting an extension to the ridiculously short 30-day comment period. We need your help to make an impression on CBP. They figured that they could slip this by everyone with little notice. We need to let CBP know that they are not going to get away with it; that we noticed and we are not happy and that we will not stand by while they take away our pocket knives.
We are in for the fight of our lives. We need you to write CBP NOW!
Click here for a Model Letter you can send to CBP.
However, the reality is that CBP isn't required to listen to our demands, but they do have to answer to Congress. After you send a letter to CBP, giving them notice they are not going to sneak this by us, the next step is to inundate Congress with emails and letters.
If you want to be free to carry your pocket knives in the future, you need to write your Senators and Representative TODAY!
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My 4" metal object caused airport panic and delays
A few years I made the unwitting mistake of attempting to bring a dangerous 4" metal object onto a US domestic flight. I was attempting to bring some bongo drums to my little nephew (partly to spite my no-good brother). So I had a gift wrapped box to carry on the plane with me. The TSA scanners found something suspicious so they "asked" me if they could open my gift wrapped box. Well, inside the box unbeknown to me was a 4" metal wrench used to adjust the surface tension of the drums. THEY TOOK IT. As if I was going to hijack the plane with a 4" bongo drum tightening wrench. In hindsight I look back on this event as an example of my maturity and control. Every fiber of my being was telling me to go berserk and start telling every TSA stoodge what I really thought of them and their stupid "job". But I didn't. I allowed them to save Western Civilization by taking my little bongo wrench.
The Home-Grown Terrorist Pointy Object Law of 2009.
The only pointy objects which won't be illegal are politicians heads.
so I guess this means
They will be coming after my kniting needles next?
Sweden 2? You can´t carry
Sweden 2?
You can´t carry it here either. It is like someone wants to make a carbon copy of Sweden?
* 25% VAT (same as Sweden).
* Universal Healthcare (same as Sweden).
* Ban knives (same as Sweden).
I can go on and on...
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Teach a man to phish and he'll clean out your bank account.
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The beginnnings of
this whole "knife paranoia" began back in the 50s when there were a number of TV shows and movies that showed "greaser gangs" carrying switchblades and menacing people.
So, liberals being the easily frightened types that they are, actually thought that things they see on TV are real, and decided they needed to stop this public menace.
So, they enacted switchblade bans.
Then they enacted other knife bans, based on what seemed to be scary to them.
However, just like all liberal banning, each ban has an exemption written into it, so that gov't employees may have these things if they want, because gov't employees are part of their gang.
I think this is a 2nd amendment issue
"the right to bear arms shall not be infringed"
Although bladed weapons are ancient armaments, they've obviously only cared about banning more modern ones, up to this point. Now they want to get rid of the primitive ones too?
They stop selling knifes, we
They stop selling knifes, we will make our own. Simple as that. Their choice.
http://theconstitutionalists1.blogspot.com
Another over reach? How...
are we to now "skin" our congress critters without a pocket knife....?
Wow, this is BS
Pocket knives are useful for survival and self-defense...they want to make the sheeple completely defenseless!
Sickening really, I have a few pocket knives and I'm not giving them up...neither is my dad.
"Truth is treason in the empire of lies." - Ron Paul
they can have my knife
when they pry my cold dead hands from it.
U.S. Customs has no legislative powers.
Further, their charter concerns what other people bring to the US. Surely they are not suggesting that we gather up all the illegal border crossers and be sure they don't have any illegal pocket knives on them!
Congress and the States are the ones who make laws.
And on that note, I find it quite ironic that I may legally carry (in most states) a 50 caliber magnum handgun that can crack an engine block, or that could shoot straight through four or five people standing in line, but I may not carry a pocket knife with a blade length in excess of four inches. Even with the various state laws infringing the "right" of the people to keep and bear arms by requiring them to pay a tax in order to exercise that 'right", they are still making it illegal to carry certain knives.
As it is now, the states have it so wrapped up already that the Feds are not necessary. But if our current helpless and passive situation isn't poor enough, I'm sure that new attempts will be made at regulating us even more.
Last week I saw a cow farmer, and in his overalls he had a pair of fingernail clippers. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have a license for those. I think I'll write my congressman right now. There's no telling how much more revenue and control can come from anti-clipper legislation.
Jack Pelham
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My BIL is a trucker and was detained
at the Canadian border because he had a knife. It was actually a cig lighter with a small "switch blade type" blade. His personal belongings were searched, including his laptop comp. I don't recall all the details but he was not allowed past the border and they kept his "knife". They supplied him with a form he could send in to have his "knife" returned.
read
read this....
http://www.kniferights.org/U%20S%20Customs%20Proposed%20Ruli...
"When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson
I am more concerned about the return of my money than the return on my money. --Mark Twain
“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.” (Prov. 22:3; 27:12 KJV)
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That's not going to go over real well
where I'm from. Most people carry a pocket knife.. and to think a swiss army knife for boy scouts would be banned..
What moron writes these laws and for what purpose.
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are driveby knifings on the
are driveby knifings on the rise? are our knives making it across the boarder to the drug cartels in mexico? what a joke.
"When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson
I am more concerned about the return of my money than the return on my money. --Mark Twain
“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.” (Prov. 22:3; 27:12 KJV)
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question is.... why? how
question is.... why? how many acts of violence to you hear about using a spyder co knife? NONE....
"When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson
I am more concerned about the return of my money than the return on my money. --Mark Twain
“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.” (Prov. 22:3; 27:12 KJV)
Hey McCain-----┌П┐(◣_◢)┌П┐
So it's another defacto ban
So it's another defacto ban by an alphabet agency? It won't ban the knives internally but from being imported, is that correct?
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Just Got That In The Mail Myself
very interesting. obama has got to go! He is from Mombasa the secret service admits!
on youtube it's reported
Secret Service Visit Carl Swensson
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ASKShow/2009/05/28/The-Andrea-S...
etc.
Naval Commander
Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III
http://jaghunters.blogspot.com/
bump for
pocket knives. I think they are looking to put enough laws in place to pick you up for any reason.
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I guess forks will be next
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Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
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Then sporks.
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"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." -- Thomas Jefferson
Article one Section eight
of the US Constitution gives US government 17 specific areas to make federal law, this ain't one of them.
Oh great. Now I have to go buy a few pocket knives
This is good though. How many of your sheepy family members carry a pocket knife? Many of mine do. This will be a great way to get them serious about changing things. Lawmakers are so stupid it floors me.
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are they stupid?
can someone BE that insidiously ignorant? whats the real agenda here? every rancher i know carries a pocket knife in his/her pocket. everyone of my friends who have animals carry knives as they come in handy for about everything. i agree with you though- maybe this will get some attention?
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I already wanted to buy my 4 year old a .410 & .22 LR
Just based on the very real possibility that when he is 10 or so and I want to give him those things that I won't be able to purchase them. Now I need to go ahead and go down to the hardware and buy him a couple pocket knives.
"What was taken from the boomers, it ain't there, what was taken from the X'ers it ain't there, what is being taken from their great, great, great squared grandchildren it ain't there. Some generation just has to have the guts to quit passing it on." Me
*May the only ones to touch your junk, be the ones you want to touch your junk.*
I saw this earlier today. It seems to be a legit thing.
they are getting more and more toward trying to disarm us.
"What was taken from the boomers, it ain't there, what was taken from the X'ers it ain't there, what is being taken from their great, great, great squared grandchildren it ain't there. Some generation just has to have the guts to quit passing it on." Me
*May the only ones to touch your junk, be the ones you want to touch your junk.*