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End federal laws banning certain knives; petition individual states to end laws banning certain knives.

Created by D.W. on December 19, 2012

End any federal restrictions on the sale, ownership and carrying of pocket knives, including automatic ("switchblade") knives and "gravity knives" (butterfly knives & similar).

The laws that ban these knives are unfair and do nothing to maintain public safety. An automatic or gravity knife is no more or less dangerous a weapon than a standard pocket knife.

The aspect of these knives that makes them the subject of scrutiny is that they may be opened quickly and one-handed. However, many "manual", non-gravity knives can be opened one-handed just as easily and quickly as a switchblade or butterfly knife.

These knives are no more dangerous than their manual counterparts.

I propose no change regarding the restrictions on carrying knives in gov't buildings/airports and so on.

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