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NYC Knife Massacre Horrifying, Won’t Lead To New Laws

Knife massacres have become horrifically commonplace among the mentally ill and disenfranchised in China in recent years, and now a Chinese immigrant has brought this unwanted import to New York City....

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New York City Arrests, Prosecutes, Eventually Settles With Legal Knife Owner

So according to New York City, any locking knife is considered to be an illegal gravity knife. If one wants to stay on the right side of their law, what are the options for those who still want to...

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Batter-up New York: Let’s bring gravity-knife repeal home. (Urgent Update)

UPDATE 6-23: Urgent from Kniferights.  I will fix the formatting on this later, but right now if you are seeing this there is a different Senator that needs to hear from us.  please call now! (Scroll...

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Urgent from Knife Rights: New Contact – Tell Senator Nozzolio to release...

Update 11;30am 6/23/15: If you are on Twitter: please tweet @SenatorNozzolio and ask him to advance the bill.  Use the hashtag #letnyknifebillgo   Thanks.   I was just letting the dog out and getting...

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KnifeRights fights to a draw in New York

When the dust finally settled at the end of last week, New York’s terrible, racist, and unjust knife laws remain unchanged. However, the box score does not do the battle justice, as KnifeRights.org...

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KnifeRights two-fer: HelpKnife Rights fight injustice, Win Prizes.

A little over a year ago, it would have been illegal for me to own the Gerber Propel automatic knife I have been testing. It was illegal for me to carry my Kim Breed Model 15 or other 4″+ blade …...

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BREAKING: NYC Pays $58K For Wrongful “Gravity Knife” Arrest

In a win for knife owners, New York City has settled with electrician Bernard Perez, agreeing to pay him $57,500 for falsely arresting him for carrying a gravity knife. As we have covered here...

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New York City On The Hook Nearly $350,000 For Wrongful Knife Arrests

“New York City has paid out at least $347,500 over the past five years for false arrest and malicious prosecution claims related to NYPD enforcement of New York’s controversial “gravity knife”...

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Knife used in New York double-murder/suicide

24 year-old loser Colin Kingston was upset over his breakup with Kelsey Annese. So the logical thing for him to do was to bring a large knife to his ex’s residence and stab her and her friend Matt...

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Two KnifeRights-supported bills introduced in NY Legislature

While we are on the subject of New York knife insanity, it is our sincere hope that 2016 is the year that the abomination of NYC “gravity knife” prohibition is finally consigned to the dustbin of...

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It’s Go-Time New York. Urgent Action Alert from KnifeRights.

We have written extensively about the unjust use of New York’s Gravity-Knife Statute to prosecute more than 60,000 people over a decade for carrying common folding knives. If you live or work in New...

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NYC Knife Massacre Horrifying, Won’t Lead To New Laws

Knife massacres have become horrifically commonplace among the mentally ill and disenfranchised in China in recent years, and now a Chinese immigrant has brought this unwanted import to New York City....

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Momentum Grows For Gravity Knife Reform In New York

We have been covering the situation in New York City for some time now. For those who don’t know, New York City under District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. has been using a state level gravity knife...

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Action Alert! New York Gravity Knife Reform Bill

Update: Welcome Instapundit readers. Thank you for visiting, and thank you to the Good Doctor for tossing us the Brass Ring of Blogging. Our mission at TTAK is to combine the best...

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CA Supreme Court: Swiss Army Knives Are Not Daggers

Welcome Instapundit readers. Thank you for visiting. The Good Doctor tossed us the brass ring right in the midst of our biggest weekend of the year: the 2016 BLADE Show in...

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Quotes of the Day: “Common-sense Knife-law reform”

I was reading this article from the Brooklyn Eagle, describing how the NY Gravity-knife bill has unanimously passed the state Senate, and will hopefully soon be signed by Gov. Cuomo. There...

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KnifeRights gets its day in court

For many years now, KnifeRights has sought to end the travesty that is the “Gravity Knife” prohibition in New York. This has been a multi-pronged campaign involving both the courts...

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NAACP joins effort to reform NY “Gravity Knife” statute

The Village Voice writer Jon Campbell won the 2015 Knife Rights “Freedom’s Voice” award for his coverage of New York’s gravity knife statute. This ambiguous law used to unjustly harass and...

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Gov. Cuomo vetos Knife-Law Reform Bill

Governor Cuomo waited until the very last day to cave to pressure from Mayor DerpBlasio and Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance, vetoing the knife-law reform bill. Rather than make a courageous...

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Fisking Governor Cuomo’s veto statement on “Gravity Knife” Bill

  New Yorkers suffered a major setback in the quest to restore their God-given right to keep and bear the tools of their choosing. Governor Andrew Cuomo, who never passes...

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