Obama Wants Your Pocket Knife

Beware! That folding knife in your pocket may turn you into a criminal if the Obama administration gets its way. Although there has been a lot of fear and speculation that the new administration wants to take your guns, the most pressing threat now is actually to your pocket knives. With the changing of the guard at U.S. Customs, that agency has now embarked on redefining "switchblades" under federal law to include a wide variety of one hand opening knives that never were intended to be prohibited. In fact, many of the knives U.S. Customs now seek to prohibit under the Federal Switchblade Law had not even been invented at the time of its enactment! Furthermore, four previous U.S. Customs ruling letters (prior administrations) specifically determined "assisted opening" knives not to be defined as switchblades.

This new proposed U.S. Customs regulation is so broad that thousands of pocket knives will fall under its sweep and millions of knife owners will be affected. The problem is not simply that imports will be banned (which is bad enough), but that the "agency determination" will be used by domestic courts and law enforcement to determine what a "switchblade" is under both federal and state laws. Many states, including New Hampshire, fail to define switchblades and simply rely on the federal definition.

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Don't worry.  In addition to having spent time in your country(?) I have spent years in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.  There is no true freedom anymore because we have been deprived of the only true freedom; the ability to walk away.  There are no more places in the world where a person can go and start living however they want.  Nationalism has imprisoned the land, and us along with it.  Now, under the yoke of the law, all of our freedoms are measured in degrees.  From sexual freedom to how we must educate our children, everything is subject.  Then there's the ultimate feudal insult, property tax.  The existence of this land rent forces subjugation.  We remain slaves, albeit in gilded chains.  Unfortunately these chains were forged by, and continue to be reinforced by ourselves.  Specifically by our appetites.  When enough of us rely on reason instead of superstition, when enough of us resist fear, gluttony, and stop rutting like pigs, we will find freedom again.