Why are gravity knives restricted

Cardinal Knife

Cardinal Knife

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I have been researching different knife laws per state for a blog post I'm trying to write, and keep seeing gravity knives as illegal for ownership and carry. This is actually assuming they are referring to actual paratrooper style gravity knives where the blade falls out by it's own weight. What are rule writers afraid of with this type of knife. They seem pretty harmless and would actually be more time consuming to deploy than a fixed blade.

..or are the legislators misinformed as usual- Wisconsin, which is only 30 minutes north of me defines balisongs, gravity knives, and switched blades as illegal. They have even managed to place a large percentage of over the counter knives into the gravity category by stating any knife "by a thrust or movement".

941.24  Possession of switchblade knife.
(1) Whoever manufactures, sells or offers to sell, transports, purchases, possesses or goes armed with any knife having a blade which opens by pressing a button, spring or other device in the handle or by gravity or by a thrust or movement is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

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Thanks Chris
 
The law makes zero sense, as many of them do.

If you have the intention to use a knife to hurt someone, the best choices, and ones that are most often used can be found in every kitchen on the planet.

In terms of actual gravity, it's anything that will open with a "wrist flick" (this seems to be the measuring stick in most places)

Something as simple as a loose pivot or a detent that has weakend over time can contribute to making a knife a "gravity" knife.
The entire thing is ridiculous, it's not what is used as a weapon but the individual using it....baseball bats where meant to hit a ball, however they are used to hit people all the time.

Knives are tools, people make them weapons.....
 
One more thing.....

Speed of opening has NOTHING to do with transforming a knife into a weapon, or in making it a better weapon.

That is a ridiculous urban myth.
 
Sosa said:
Thank James Dean.
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Our laws are based on what happens in movies?!?!

Maybe, sure as hell ain't based on common sense, and that might be due to the people who are involved in writing and passing them into being law.....
 
This law is so poorly written that they've actually included the entire manufacturing-retail chain. So a law that pertains to possession somehow implies that it can indict Benchmade, because you possessed an OTF auto they made and yet had no part in putting in your hand.
 
Switchblades, flick knives gravity etc. all banned because once a teenager gets one they're joining a violence gang.

Thanks to James Dean and the surge of Juvenile Delinquent movies in the 50s for scaring all the mothers about what would happen to their children if they got their hands on knife like that.
 
Cardinal Knife said:
I don't believe I've ever seen a James Dean flick. [emoji15] is there a particular scene from a particular movie you're referring to?
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Rebel without a cause. There's a knife fight scene. Good movie just too ahead of its time.
 
JR88FAN said:
Our laws are based on what happens in movies?!?!

Maybe, sure as hell ain't based on common sense, and that might be due to the people who are involved in writing and passing them into being law.....
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Cardinal Knife said:
I don't believe I've ever seen a James Dean flick. [emoji15] is there a particular scene from a particular movie you're referring to?
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[video=youtube;eselLQax8us]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eselLQax8us[/video]

So yeah; the "Law" is based on a knee jerk response to a herd of panicky fools. The fools are happy, the lawmakers get to chalk up a score for solving the problem.

Don't believe me? Watch the de Leon ghost gun video.
 
Danke42 said:
Well at least the law put an end to those groups of singing teens.
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I wish. My kids once watched the movie "High School Musical". And I think two or three sequels followed. This is the type of thing we need to have our law makers concentrating on. Absolute travesty and public shame. ;)
 
knife laws are more like a joke than anything else, well, unless we are talking about huge items like a Chinese war sword. Knives with a blade length of 2, 3, and even 4 inches should never be viewed as weapons in the first place. Otherwise, there would need to establish baseball bat laws, rock laws, chair laws, wood stick laws, plastic bag laws, ... because any of these can be and were used many times as weapons.
 
Danke42 said:
[video=youtube;eselLQax8us]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eselLQax8us[/video]

So yeah; the "Law" is based on a knee jerk response to a herd of panicky fools. The fools are happy, the lawmakers get to chalk up a score for solving the problem.

Don't believe me? Watch the de Leon ghost gun video.
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Nice, must have been a dull knife
 
Short answer - politicians and legislators are clueless about such things (you know, things like guns, knives, "weapons" of any kind, health care, trade with China, securing the border, etc., etc...).
 
And that's how it came to be.
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