Texas to ban assault knives

[TSA]

True story.

[TSA]

Edit: meant the UK

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-22033181

A month-long amnesty has resulted in more than 300 knives being handed in to police in Southampton.

People were able to dispose of knives, bladed items and illegal weapons in designated amnesty bins throughout March, without fear of prosecution.

Ch Insp Kelly Whiting said: "We're hoping people who have handed in knives no longer want to be involved in that level of violence."

The amnesty came after six stabbings in the city in the past two years.

The first such amnesty in the city for six years brought in blades including small kitchen knives, machetes and ornamental swords.

Jen Singleton, whose son Lewis was stabbed to death in Woolston in March 2007, called it "worthwhile".

"Even if it's only keeping one knife out of the wrong hands on the streets, it's successful," she said.

Ch Insp Whiting said: "If you know someone who habitually carries a knife, call us and we will ensure it is removed from the streets."

[Blake]

Basic laws on knives

It is illegal to:
sell a knife of any kind (including cutlery and kitchen knives) to anyone under 18

carry a knife in public without good reason - unless it’s a knife with a folding blade 3 inches long (7.62 cm) or less, eg a Swiss Army knife

carry, buy or sell any type of banned knife (the list of banned knives is below)

use any knife in a threatening way (even a legal knife, such as a Swiss Army knife)

https://www.gov.uk/find-out-if-i-can...-carry-a-knife

[Blake]

Knives that are illegal

There is a complete ban on the sale of some knives:flick knives (also called ‘switchblades’ or ‘automatic knives’) - where the blade is hidden inside the handle and shoots out when a button is pressedbutterfly knives - where the blade is hidden inside a handle that splits in two around it, like wings; the handles swing around the blade to open or close itdisguised knives – eg where the blade is hidden inside a belt buckle or fake mobile phonegravity knivessword-stickssamurai swords (with some exceptions, including antiques and swords made to traditional methods before 1954)hand or foot-clawspush daggershollow kubotan (cylinder-shaped keychain) holding esshuriken (also known as ‘death stars’ or ‘throwing stars’)kusari-gama (sickle attached to a rope, cord or wire)kyoketsu-shoge (hook-knife attached to a rope, cord or wire)kusari (weight attached to a rope, cord or wire)This is not a complete list of banned knives.*Contact your local policeto check if a knife is illegal or not.

What's bad about this?

[Bender]

coming up next.... pointy sticks

[Blake]

coming up next.... pointy sticks

Assault mini vans, tbh

[DMX7]

Brass knuckles are illegal in the state of Texas which makes no sense.

[Blake]

Brass knuckles are illegal in the state of Texas which makes no sense.

Yeah, I don't get that.

Switchblade knives are in that same class A misdemeanor category

[Heath Ledger]

Spring Assisted Knives are legal in Texas and are basically the same . Plenty on my site.... tbh

[Heath Ledger]

Lawmakers Considering legalizing switchblade knives.
http://www.burlesonstar.net/texasnews/ci_22990315

By MICHAEL BRICK, Associated Press
Posted: 04/09/2013 09:27:11 PM CDT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Taking up a cause dear to hunters and hikers, a Texas lawmaker argued the case for legalizing switchblades on Tuesday, noting that the small knives are currently listed alongside machine guns, explosives and chemical weapons on a list of prohibited arms.
Many states adopted similar bans in the 1950s, when the Broadway play "West Side Story" and Hollywood films such as "Rebel Without a Cause" depicted young men fighting with the knives that open at the press of a button. But many states have overturned those bans in recent years.
"It doesn't make sense to me," Rep. Harold Dutton, a Houston Democrat, told the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence. He urged the panel to approve his bill, which would strike switchblades from the state's list of prohibited weapons.
Switchblades are now legal in 30 states, according to a count by Knife Rights. The national group has successfully campaigned to overturn some of the bans, and the National Rifle Association has embraced the cause.
In addressing the committee, Dutton kept to the topic. But he has said he plans to use the bill to open a gun control debate on the floor of the House.
Do ents prepared by his office note that "while the switchblade knife is listed on Texas' prohibited weapons list, assault rifles are not on the list."
As Tuesday's hearing began, news accounts emerged describing a mass stabbing on a college campus on the outskirts of Dutton's hometown. The kind of weapon involved remained unclear late Tuesday, though at least 14 people were wounded before the student suspect was taken into custody.
Still, Dutton pushed for his bill, describing how he once accompanied a legal client to a pawn shop to lend his credibility to the cashing of a check. At the shop, he noticed a collection of switchblades, which he believed to be illegal. Not so, the shopkeeper told him, because the knives in question qualified as antiques.
"I thought, 'What?'" Dutton recalled. He also said he could find no instances of prosecutions under the ban.
Rep. Matt Schaefer, a Tyler Republican who also works as a lawyer, said he once represented a client who pleaded guilty to illegal possession of a switchblade, adding quickly that the experience left him disposed to support the legalization bill.
"You can stab someone as quickly with a kitchen knife as you can with a switchblade," Schaefer said.
The only witness to testify on the bill, Knife Rights representative Todd Rathner, brought some knives to demonstrate. He reached into his pants pocket and pulled out a legal pocketknife with a thumb stud protruding from the blade. Unlike switchblades, pocketknives don't have a spring-loaded button that enables them to open with the click of a button but Rathner opened it with a snap of his wrist.
"I can open it that quickly," he said.
The Arizona resident then pulled out a black-handled switchblade with a 4 ½-inch blade that he had dulled with a grinder so he could bring it into Texas. "All it does," he said as he demonstrated the automation, "is allow you to open it with one hand."
After the hearing, when reminded of Dutton's political record which includes an F-rating from the NRA Rathner said: "The truth of the matter is he's right, in that if you can walk into a gun store and buy a gun, why can't you walk into a store and buy a switchblade?"
But, he added, Dutton "may be making the point from a different angle."

[Latarian Milton]

we should all revert to a stone-age life style tbh, there're too many dangers in the modern world

[The Reckoning]

butterfly knives are fun

[DMX7]

Let's legalize more kinds of knives on a day that a Houston Community College guy goes on a stabbing rampage. That makes sense.

[CosmicCowboy]

Too bad there wasn't someone there with a bigger knife.

[Winehole23]

Let's legalize more kinds of knives on a day that a Houston Community College guy goes on a stabbing rampage. That makes sense.

optics are bad politically, but in principle what would be wrong with that?

[Blake]

optics are bad politically, but in principle what would be wrong with that?

As long as the appropriate research has been done, technically nothing is wrong.

Sensitively speaking, it's just wrong.

[CosmicCowboy]

One honest citizen with a concealed carry could have stopped that at the first cutting.

[Blake]

One honest citizen with a concealed carry could have stopped that at the first cutting.

honest citizen could honestly miss the target

[CosmicCowboy]

Again, Blake proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is a ing idiot.

[boutons_deux]

One honest citizen with a concealed carry could have stopped that at the first cutting.

if you and the NRA got concealed firearms into 1000s colleges campuses in college kids hands, how many college kids would be accidentally killed or murdered by other armed college kids, drunk, drugged or just pissed off?

[Blake]

Again, Blake proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is a ing idiot.

i think my point is legitimate. I think your ass is red per the usual.

[CosmicCowboy]

if you and the NRA got concealed firearms into 1000s colleges campuses in college kids hands, how many college kids would be accidentally killed or murdered by other armed college kids, drunk, drugged or just pissed off?

probably none.

[CosmicCowboy]

i think my point is legitimate. I think your ass is red per the usual.

Again, Blake proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is a ing idiot.

[Blake]

Again, Blake proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is a ing idiot.

because your red ass says so?

[CosmicCowboy]

Shots wouldn't even be required after the whacko realized he brought a knife to a gunfight. Again proving what a stupid you are.