Craig Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 Not sure if this is the best place for this, but, I am on the Rivers Edge Cutlery mailing list and they sent me this. I thought i would pass it along. "Hello Everyone, I am writing you to inform you that your knife rights are in serious danger due to a bill that is being put to a vote with congress by the US Customs and Border Patrol. They are looking to include a more broad definition on the Federal Switchblade Act. This would make anything from Multi-Tools, Swiss Army Knives, Assisted knives, to anything you can open with one hand illegal. Now I don't know about most people but I know I can open a standard buck 110 Folding Hunter with one hand. This puts our industry in danger of a serious collapse. I am including links to the Knife Rights website with some sample letters. AKTI has similar letters directly linked from their homepage at www.akti.org <http://www.akti.org/> . We need to write and Snail Mail (emails are not allowed by Customs) these to Customs by June 21st. This is the deadline for public comment and we definitely need your help on this one. Don't let us all loose out because they think anybody who carries a knife is a criminal or has criminal intent. Personally I have been working in this industry for a long time and I am not about to sit by and watch it go down in flames but we need your help. Please mail these ASAP. Here are the links to the Letters that would need to be written and sent. The first link is the letter that we are sending to The Customs and Border Patrol. http://www.kniferights.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=79& Itemid=29 The next link is the letter we are sending to our Congress people. It does have to pass through the House and Senate so I would write both of them. I plan on doing so often. Here is the sample letter for that one. http://www.kniferights.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=78& Itemid=29 Here is the link to find the correct person to be writing in congress for you. Knife Rights has put together an easy link to find everything you need on your congress people and how to communicate the point we are trying to get across to them. http://www.kniferights.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77& Itemid=29 If you need anything else from me let me know and I will be happy to help. Thanks, Brian Rivers Edge Cutlery 3935 Trueman Blvd. Hilliard, OH 43026" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonneVille Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 Why do people insist on wasting our fucking time by posting shit like this WITHOUT A LINK TO THE ACTUAL LEGISLATION IN QUESTION. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted June 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 Why do people insist on wasting our fucking time by posting shit like this WITHOUT A LINK TO THE ACTUAL LEGISLATION IN QUESTION. Like is said in my thread, I'm on their mailing list, just passing it along. Take your fucking attitude somewhere else if you don't like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KillJoy Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 Why do people insist on wasting our fucking time by posting shit like this WITHOUT A LINK TO THE ACTUAL LEGISLATION IN QUESTION. WHY THE FUCK DON'T YOU CLICK THE ACTUAL LINKS AND READ WHAT THE HELL IT SAYS!!! KillJoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonneVille Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 WHY THE FUCK DON'T YOU CLICK THE ACTUAL LINKS AND READ WHAT THE HELL IT SAYS!!! KillJoy Did YOU? Did you notice that the site it links to is completely devoid of links to the ACTUAL BILL? Oh, they describe it in their own words, but they don't actually give you link to the real bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted June 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 http://www.kniferights.org/U%20S%20Customs%20Proposed%20Ruling%20-%20Assisted%20Opening%20Knives.pdf Looks like it is it, but i am not going to read through all 63 pages to find out...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonneVille Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 Well, I just skimmed through the bill, touching on the holdings, and it looks like it's primarily aimed at banning the IMPORT of spring-assisted knives, although I can't tell if it would affect sales or manufacture WITHIN the U.S.. And there is NO mention at all of non-spring-assisted knives designed to be opened one handed. My problem with the original post is that it isn't accompanied by a link to the original bill. Most of the time when one of these gets posted in the gun section without that link, I go and find the bill and read it, and usually the bill is a nothing, either having a totally different effect than what is claimed, or being so wildly or stupidly written that it can't possibly come out of committee. This one appears to be an exception. Still, try to get links to bills when you post something like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KillJoy Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 PS - Pickles are green. :thumbup: KillJoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted June 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 in those cases where you want to know more than what is posted. Google is your friend. I have not had time to look any of this over. I just got the email and thought i would pass the information along. Without the email i would have never even known about the bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodRed Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 I got a notice from the NRA on this one too. I think it is crazy. I always carry a knife with me from the day my grandfather gave me my first pocket knife. It carried on through Boy Scouts and even to this day I still carry one. One in every car and a crap load all around the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewhop Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 I have a knife in my pocket one in my truck and car. Two in each of my fishing tackle boxes. Enough at home that I always have one within a few feet of me. The NRA sent me this yesterday as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRocket1647545505 Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Best of luck to them on getting every straight man in the US to take his knife outta his pocket... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87GT Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 I don't leave my house without my swiss army knife. You will have to pry it from my cold dead hands if you want to take it away from me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verse Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 Best of luck to them on getting every straight man in the US to take his knife outta his pocket... Truth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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