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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You said "You want women, the elderly and disabled to be defenceless"  Not me.  I'll admit that combining the liberals' positive spin on their encroachments of our freedoms with an attack on "conservatives" was intended to be...tricky.  Where did I move to?  The world.  Real freedom is dead everywhere, but it manifests in varying degrees in different ways in different places.  I've spent about two years in the middle east, two in China, one in SEA, 6 mos in Australia, all over except South America, observing.  I've said it here before, but it bears repeating.  The west may proudly proclaim a high degree of political freedom, but when it comes to personal freedom, it fails hard.  In many of the Asian(including west Asian)places I've been, political freedom is regulated, but people know how to mind their own fucking business, so there's more personal freedom.  See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.  Here in the US, it's What's he doing there? call the cops, sue the bastards.