Spring Assisted

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Are Spring Assisted Knives legal in NY? I tried to buy one from wal-mart but the guy said they are illegal and only for display, interestingly enough i bought one a block away from dicks, but im still curious.
the blade is 4 inches, so do u kno if it is legal to carry?
 
New York City law allows blades under 4". If it's right on the line, it's illegal.

Assisted openers are legal, automatic knives are not. The problem is, if a police officer decides your assisted opener is an automatic - he isn't going to be an expert on the subtleties - you will be inconvenienced, maybe arrested.
 
spawnofares, Walmart does sell them to anyone. Are you a teen ? Maybe the salesman did not want to sell it to you do to age? As to being legal they are BUT as stated above many officers may feel otherwise, and if they can be flicked open then they can still be viewed as gravity knives.....
 
frankly when it comes to walmart in this area, from my experience they are rather snooty, i asked to see some knives, was asked for my ID, ok im fine with that, kind of expected it, then the guy said "I'm going to show them to you one at a time." didnt even really give me an option to compare them back and forth, he unpacked and repacked them in between showing me and after i looked at the first one i couldnt find the locking mechanism (it was some type i hadnt had hands on experience with before so i didnt find it right away) and asked him where it was, he just took it closed it can went to get the other knife. so ya mer on wally world


now if they have them in a store and you can buy them you should be legally allowed to posses them in that area but the question comes down to if you can carry it. as an example, here in VA you can own a switch blade and carry it on your property but you cannot carry it concealed in public, but no law is listed that i can find saying i cannot open carry it in public.

so read the laws for the area, call the local LEO offices and ask what the law says or at least where to find all weapons laws for the area
-matt
 
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