Knife Rights loses NY Gravity Knife Case at 2nd Circuit

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  • jrumann59

    DILLIGAF
    MDS Supporter
    Feb 17, 2011
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    So if I buy knife that I cant flick open at the store but after years of use and opening and closing that knife now does open with flick of a wrist 10% of the time it is a gravity knife even though it may not have been that way when new. Yeah seems vague enough... I fail to see how a gravity knife is anymore dangerous than lets say a 1 one handed operated one but hey what do I know I am not liberal enough.
     

    wolfwood

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    Aug 24, 2011
    1,361
    I have a NY taser case going right now and Jim Maloney has a 2a case going to trial re nun chucks.
    After those are wrapped up, Id be tempted to file a knife case on 2a grounds.
    I think knife rights is adverse to doing a 2a challenge for some reason
     

    zoostation

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    Jan 28, 2007
    22,857
    Abingdon
    I have a NY taser case going right now and Jim Maloney has a 2a case going to trial re nun chucks.
    After those are wrapped up, Id be tempted to file a knife case on 2a grounds.
    I think knife rights is adverse to doing a 2a challenge for some reason

    I know how to win the nunchakus case.

     

    MigraineMan

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    Jun 9, 2011
    19,109
    Frederick County
    I have a Gerber Obsidian folder with a slide safety and a push-button lock. It locks both closed and open. There are no spring assists. If you slide the safety and push the lock-release, and flick it really, really hard (like almost throw it across the room) you can barely get it to deploy the blade.

    Horse-pucky that this is a "gravity" knife. My grandmother's knitting needles are likely a New York "gravity" knife as well.
     

    Ack Ack

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    Sep 4, 2013
    274
    DC
    Good GOD! I have an entire collection of knives in my kitchen that are PERMANENTLY open. They don't close at all!!! Are they assault knives? Fully automatic?!?! I think I need to submit myself for a background check... Who sells a good knife safe???
     

    whistlersmother

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    Jan 29, 2013
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    Fulton, MD
    Good GOD! I have an entire collection of knives in my kitchen that are PERMANENTLY open. They don't close at all!!! Are they assault knives? Fully automatic?!?! I think I need to submit myself for a background check... Who sells a good knife safe???

    They are full semi-automatic... :innocent0 :lol2:
     

    Qbeam

    Ultimate Member
    Apr 16, 2008
    6,074
    Georgia
    Good GOD! I have an entire collection of knives in my kitchen that are PERMANENTLY open. They don't close at all!!! Are they assault knives? Fully automatic?!?! I think I need to submit myself for a background check... Who sells a good knife safe???


    Ask the Brits, they know about knives....


    Q
     

    Sleepy

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    Jan 19, 2013
    139
    They are full semi-automatic... :innocent0 :lol2:

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    It looks like my full semi-auto magazine clip holds more than 10.
     

    jrumann59

    DILLIGAF
    MDS Supporter
    Feb 17, 2011
    14,024
    I have a Gerber Obsidian folder with a slide safety and a push-button lock. It locks both closed and open. There are no spring assists. If you slide the safety and push the lock-release, and flick it really, really hard (like almost throw it across the room) you can barely get it to deploy the blade.

    Horse-pucky that this is a "gravity" knife. My grandmother's knitting needles are likely a New York "gravity" knife as well.

    Most of folders will mostly likely deploy with a flick as long as I use my whole arm and almost dislocate my elbow.
     

    ironpony

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    Jun 8, 2013
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    Davidsonville
    My paw taught me how to flick open my Buck 110, which was the most popular carry knife in / inside high school. Those were the days.
     

    Biggfoot44

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    Aug 2, 2009
    32,877
    An actual "gravity knife " , the blade slides out purely from gravity with a button is pushed . Actually fairly rare and unusual.

    As (mis) applied in NY , it is virtually every folding knife .
     

    j.smooth4

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    Feb 24, 2017
    120
    Laurel, MD
    An actual "gravity knife " , the blade slides out purely from gravity with a button is pushed . Actually fairly rare and unusual.

    As (mis) applied in NY , it is virtually every folding knife .

    Yup Ive heard of cops using their full force to swing and swinging knives for 45 mins to try and make a multitool or swiss army knife into a gravity knife
     

    BeoBill

    Crank in the Third Row
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    Oct 3, 2013
    27,058
    南馬里蘭州鮑伊
    An actual "gravity knife " , the blade slides out purely from gravity with a button is pushed . Actually fairly rare and unusual.

    As (mis) applied in NY , it is virtually every folding knife .

    This is the wonderfulness of The Sullivan Law. Pretty much ANYTHING that a turn-of-the-(20th)-century Italian legal immigrant could use to defend themself was made illegal in NYC so that the Tammany Hall boys could shake them down for their pennies.

    Somewhat like what the MGA is heading toward here.
     

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