iKnife Collector2024-03-29T15:55:45ZMark Bigolovichhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/MarkBigolovichhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2792789733?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://iknifecollector.com/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=2zig4or9xa2uz&feed=yes&xn_auth=noLouisiana Preemption Bill Passes Senate Comm – House Preemption Bill Introducedtag:iknifecollector.com,2024-03-27:3181080:Topic:17256762024-03-27T13:30:00.372ZMark Bigolovichhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/MarkBigolovich
<p><strong>Louisiana <a href="https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351135" rel="noopener" target="_blank">SB 194</a>, that includes Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption language, has passed out of the Senate Committee on Judiciary C by a vote of 5-1.</strong></p>
<p>Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, was in Baton Rouge to lobby and testified in support of SB 194. Our good friend Dan Zelenka, President of the Louisiana Shooters Association, also…</p>
<p><strong>Louisiana <a href="https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1351135" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SB 194</a>, that includes Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption language, has passed out of the Senate Committee on Judiciary C by a vote of 5-1.</strong></p>
<p>Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, was in Baton Rouge to lobby and testified in support of SB 194. Our good friend Dan Zelenka, President of the Louisiana Shooters Association, also testified in support of the bill. Sponsor Senator Blake Miguez has worked hard to move this bill and we appreciate his resolve and efforts.</p>
<p><strong>Meanwhile, in the House, Louisiana State Representative Neil Riser has introduced <a href="https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1357577" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HB 775</a> that would also enact Knife Law Preemption in the state.</strong></p>
<p>We sincerely appreciate Dan Zelenka’s relentless efforts in helping us pursue knife law reform in Louisiana. Knife Law Preemption would complete our reform efforts in the Pelican State</p>
<p>Knife Rights will let you know as soon as it is appropriate to contact your Louisiana lawmakers to support of SB 194 and HB 775.</p>
<p>Knife Law Preemption is a Knife Rights’ criminal justice reform effort that repeals and prevents local ordinances more restrictive than state law which only serve to confuse or entrap law-abiding citizens traveling within or through the state. Preemption ensures citizens can expect consistent enforcement of state knife laws everywhere within a state.</p>
<p>Knife Rights passed the nation’s first Knife Law Preemption bill in Arizona in 2010 and has since passed preemption bills in Alaska, Georgia, Kansas, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.</p>
<p>Knife Rights is America’s grassroots knife owners’ organization; leading the fight to Rewrite Knife Law in America™ and forging a Sharper Future for all Americans™. Knife Rights efforts have resulted in 44 bills enacted repealing knife bans in 27 states and over 175 cities and towns since 2010.</p> Knife Rights Idaho Knife Law Preemption Bill Passed - Off to Governortag:iknifecollector.com,2024-03-26:3181080:Topic:17257312024-03-26T21:15:07.048ZMark Bigolovichhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/MarkBigolovich
<p><strong>Knife Rights' bill that would enact Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption in Idaho, <a href="https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/H0620E1.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">H0620</a>, was passed by the Senate with a vote of 27 - 7. The bill now heads to Governor Brad Little for his action.</strong></p>
<p>Representative Jordan Redman’s efforts to introduce and pass H0620 are sincerely appreciated. Thanks also to Senator Carl Bjerke who…</p>
<p><strong>Knife Rights' bill that would enact Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption in Idaho, <a href="https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/H0620E1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">H0620</a>, was passed by the Senate with a vote of 27 - 7. The bill now heads to Governor Brad Little for his action.</strong></p>
<p>Representative Jordan Redman’s efforts to introduce and pass H0620 are sincerely appreciated. Thanks also to Senator Carl Bjerke who so ably advocated on behalf of the bill on the Senate floor.</p>
<p>Knife Law Preemption is a Knife Rights’ criminal justice reform effort that repeals and prevents local ordinances more restrictive than state law which only serve to confuse or entrap law-abiding citizens traveling within or through the state. Preemption ensures citizens can expect consistent enforcement of state knife laws everywhere within a state.</p>
<p>Knife Rights passed the nation’s first Knife Law Preemption bill in Arizona in 2010 and has since passed preemption bills in Alaska, Georgia, Kansas, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.</p>
<p>Knife Rights is America’s grassroots knife owners’ organization; leading the fight to Rewrite Knife Law in America™ and forging a Sharper Future for all Americans™. Knife Rights efforts have resulted in 44 bills enacted repealing knife bans in 27 states and over 175 cities and towns since 2010.</p> Get a New Kershaw Iridium for $3? Join my Patreon pagetag:iknifecollector.com,2024-03-25:3181080:Topic:17256732024-03-25T00:42:19.897ZMark Bigolovichhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/MarkBigolovich
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<p>Hello All,</p>
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<p>Blade HQ is doing another Free Shipping weekend this weekend, Saturday & Sunday, 3/23 & 3/24/24, in celebration of their 21st Birthday/Anniversary. Just wanted to let y'all know!</p>
<p><a href="https://www.bladehq.com/cat--Anniversary-Sale--4298?__s=g9hofboa326lu7m01mw3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.bladehq.com/cat--Anniversary-Sale--4298?__s=g9hofboa326lu7m01mw3</a></p> Hoping to add a Holley to my collectiontag:iknifecollector.com,2024-03-08:3181080:Topic:17253632024-03-08T21:15:01.497ZMark Bigolovichhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/MarkBigolovich
<p>They usually bring way more than I can justify spending on another pocket knife, but I keep looking. Does anyone know of a good price guide?</p>
<p>They usually bring way more than I can justify spending on another pocket knife, but I keep looking. Does anyone know of a good price guide?</p> Dueling Summary Judgment Motions Filed in Knife Rights' CA Switchblade Ban Casetag:iknifecollector.com,2024-03-08:3181080:Topic:17255382024-03-08T13:31:01.499ZMark Bigolovichhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/MarkBigolovich
<p id="isPasted"><strong>Motions for Summary Judgement have been filed by both sides in Knife Rights’ federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of California’s complete ban on common automatic knives 2-inches and greater that the State prohibits as illegal “switchblades.”</strong></p>
<p>The Plaintiffs’ motion sets out the indisputable facts under the standard laid out by the U.S. Supreme Court in…</p>
<p id="isPasted"><strong>Motions for Summary Judgement have been filed by both sides in Knife Rights’ federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of California’s complete ban on common automatic knives 2-inches and greater that the State prohibits as illegal “switchblades.”</strong></p>
<p>The Plaintiffs’ motion sets out the indisputable facts under the standard laid out by the U.S. Supreme Court in <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15801511469054576045&q=bruen&hl=en&as_sdt=6,29" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n</em> v. <em>Bruen</em></a>. These facts include those confirmed by California’s own experts during deposition.</p>
<p>While <em>Bruen</em> lays the burden on the State to provide evidence that these knives are not protected by the Second Amendment, Plaintiffs’ motion clearly presents evidence that automatically opening (“switchblade”) knives are common, and not “unusual,” in three ways: numerically, categorically and jurisdictionally. As such they cannot be “<em>both</em> dangerous <em>and</em> unusual.” This should be the end of the issue, period. Moreover, the motion shows that there is absolutely no historical tradition, as informed by <em>Bruen</em>, for banning knives. As such, the State cannot ban them under <em>Bruen</em>.</p>
<p>California’s motion relies on fanciful interpretations of <em>Bruen</em> and the irrelevant history cited by its experts and their often hyperbolic and irrelevant testimony, in an effort to magically sidestep the unambiguous instructions from the <em>Bruen</em> decision.</p>
<p>Their contention that Plaintiffs must prove that automatically opening knives are “commonly used for self-defense” is a purposeful misstatement of what <em>Bruen</em> says, which, put into plain words, is that the arm, in this case automatically opening (“switchblade”) knives, “must be commonly possessed for lawful purposes, including self-defense.” There is no requirement under <em>Bruen</em> that they be actually used for self-defense.</p>
<p>The state would like to take a time machine back to before the <em>Bruen</em> decision and use means-end scrutiny to support their arguments. Unfortunately, the State can only dream. <em>Bruen</em> explicitly rejected this kind of argument.</p>
<p>The short version is that we have the facts and all they have is generalized, irrelevant, and unsupported claims. There will now be filed a series of opposition pleadings and replies by each side prior to the scheduled hearing before Federal District Court Judge James E. Simmons, Jr., set for April 22, 2024, in San Diego.</p>
<p>Attorney John W. Dillon of the Dillon Law Group, representing the Plaintiffs, said, “After reviewing the State’s motion and supporting documents, it is clear that they cannot produce any legitimate historical justification for their unconstitutional ban under the <em>Bruen</em> standard. We look forward to submitting further argument to the Court and invalidating this ridiculous prohibition on automatically opening knives.”</p>
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<li><strong><a href="https://kniferights.org/wp-content/uploads/CA_Plaintiffs_Motions_Summary_Judgment_FILED.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click to read Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment.</a></strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="https://kniferights.org/wp-content/uploads/CA_State_Motion_Summary_Judgment_Exhibits_FILED.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click to download Plaintiffs’ Appendix and Exhibits</a> (3.6GB).</strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="https://kniferights.org/wp-content/uploads/CA_State_Motion_Summary_Judgment_FILED.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click to read California’s Motion for Summary Judgment.</a></strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="https://kniferights.org/wp-content/uploads/CA_State_Motion_Summary_Judgment_Exhibits_FILED.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click to download California’s Appendix and Exhibits.</a> (37MB)</strong></li>
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<p>Joining Knife Rights as plaintiffs in this case are Knife Rights members James Miller, Garrison Ham, and Eliot Kaagan and knife retailer members North County Shooting Center and Poway Weapons and Gear.</p>
<p><strong>Please support Knife Rights’ lawsuit with a tax-deductible donation to the Knife Rights Foundation at: <a href="http://KnifeRights.org/donate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.KnifeRights.org/donate</a> (select Knife Rights Foundation)</strong></p>
<p>Knife Rights Chairman Doug Ritter said, “Under Supreme Court precedent, California’s ban on these common and constitutionally protected automatically opening (switchblade) knives cannot pass muster and must be enjoined. Automatically opening knives that are banned in California are widely legally possessed in at least 43 of 50 states. There is no question that these knives are ‘commonly owned for lawful purposes, including self-defense’ and therefore cannot be banned.”</p>
<p>Knife Rights last year <a href="https://kniferights.org/legislative-update/worst-anti-knife-city-in-america-caves-to-knife-rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won a similar Second Amendment lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>BACKGROUND</strong></p>
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<p>Broadly, in <em><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15801511469054576045&q=bruen&hl=en&as_sdt=6,29" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NYSRPA v. Bruen</a></em> the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment includes the right to be armed for self-defense at home and in public. This right can only be limited to the extent that there is a historical tradition of limitation in the period immediately prior to and around the time of the Constitution’s framing in the late 18th century up to the late 19th century. A few restrictions on knives of various sorts that are outliers from that time period do not count. Restrictions imposed later, including on switchblades in the 1950s, don’t count. Possession and carry of knives survives this constitutional test.</p>
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<p><em>Bruen</em> upheld restrictions on weapons such as machine guns that are deemed by the court to be both “dangerous and unusual.” A weapon that is either not “dangerous” or not “unusual” cannot be prohibited. Automatically opening (“switchblade”) knives and other knife designs and opening mechanisms are neither “unusual,” being legal and common in most places today, nor any more “dangerous” than other non-prohibited knives or weapons. Knife bans existent today do not pass constitutional muster after Bruen.</p>
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<p><em>Bruen</em> also emphasized emphatically from the court’s prior Second Amendment McDonald decision that “the constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees.” Second Amendment decisions by courts must be made on the basis of strict scrutiny, just as with other rights. Intermediate scrutiny or “interest balancing” can no longer be used to decide Second Amendment cases. As such, the government can no longer defend knife bans because government doesn’t like a particular type of knife, for whatever irrational basis it comes up with.</p>
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<p>Knife Rights (<a href="http://www.KnifeRights.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.KnifeRights.org</a>) is America’s grassroots knife owners’ organization; leading the fight to Rewrite Knife Law in America™ and forging a Sharper Future for all Americans™. Knife Rights efforts have resulted in 44 bills enacted repealing knife bans in 27 states and over 175 cities and towns since 2010.</p>
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<p>Here we are again, with another FREE SHIPPING weekend at Knife Center through Sunday, 3/3/24. I tried to apply the code with an oversized item & was told the code was inapplicable. Then I removed that item (machete), had only a folder in there, & Voila! Free shipping. Oh, & the code, as usual, is: FREESHIP</p>
<p>Here's the link, if you're curious, or just want to pick up something low-buck & not have to worry about shipping charges, this is the way to go: …</p>
<p>Here we are again, with another FREE SHIPPING weekend at Knife Center through Sunday, 3/3/24. I tried to apply the code with an oversized item & was told the code was inapplicable. Then I removed that item (machete), had only a folder in there, & Voila! Free shipping. Oh, & the code, as usual, is: FREESHIP</p>
<p>Here's the link, if you're curious, or just want to pick up something low-buck & not have to worry about shipping charges, this is the way to go: <a href="https://www.knifecenter.com/listing/free-shipping" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.knifecenter.com/listing/free-shipping</a></p> FREE SHIPPING at Blade HQ 2/15 through 2/19 (Presidents' Day Weekend 2024)tag:iknifecollector.com,2024-02-17:3181080:Topic:17250832024-02-17T02:18:12.911ZMark Bigolovichhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/MarkBigolovich
<p>Here it is, another FREE SHIPPING sale, this time again at Blade HQ! Haven't placed my order yet, but it looks like the discount is automatic (no code required). Feb. 15 to Feb. 19, 2024.</p>
<p>Might have to pick up another pink Dessert Warrior knife... :)</p>
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<p>Here it is, another FREE SHIPPING sale, this time again at Blade HQ! Haven't placed my order yet, but it looks like the discount is automatic (no code required). Feb. 15 to Feb. 19, 2024.</p>
<p>Might have to pick up another pink Dessert Warrior knife... :)</p>
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<p></p> URGENT FOLLOW-UP to HEARING! EMAIL TODAY to Fix a BAD Washington KNIFE BAN Bill!tag:iknifecollector.com,2024-02-17:3181080:Topic:17249682024-02-17T02:17:54.848ZMark Bigolovichhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/MarkBigolovich
<p><strong><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12383645280?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12383645280?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a></strong> <strong>Today, Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, gave testimony asking the House Civil Rights and Judiciary Committee to amend <a href="https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5444-S2.pdf?q=20240214114941" rel="noopener" target="_blank">SB 5444</a> to remove “knives.” As it stands…</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12383645280?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12383645280?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></strong><strong>Today, Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, gave testimony asking the House Civil Rights and Judiciary Committee to amend <a href="https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5444-S2.pdf?q=20240214114941" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SB 5444</a> to remove “knives.” As it stands the bill would make it illegal to possess ANY knife at a “transit station” including bus, train and trolley stops! This would make it illegal to carry a knife on public transit, period, since you can’t board without going through a transit station! We need your URGENT help to get “knives” amended out of this BAD BILL!</strong></p>
<p><strong>In speaking to House Committee members, they said they were “well aware” of the emails you have sent on the bill. We need to double down on these emails and we have a new email to go out and we make it easy using our <a href="https://kniferights.org/resources/congressweb/#/64" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Legislative Action Center</a> to easily email the Committee members, including the Chair. <span style="color: #ff0000;">You must have a Washington address.</span> Go to:</strong> <a href="https://kniferights.org/resources/congressweb/#/64" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>https://kniferights.org/resources/congressweb/#/64</strong></a></p>
<p>To be clear, chefs would be unable to carry their knife roll. Tradespeople would be unable to carry their knife used at work. Fishers would be unable to carry a knife to clean their catch. The unintended consequences of SB 5444 will especially burden the economically disadvantaged who must use public transit.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;"><strong>PLEASE FORWARD or SHARE this alert to your friends and associates who live in Washington and would support this bill.</strong></span></p> VERY URGENT ACTION ALERT! EMAIL TODAY to Fix a BAD Washington KNIFE BAN Bill! Hearing on Friday Morning!tag:iknifecollector.com,2024-02-15:3181080:Topic:17251652024-02-15T14:40:27.506ZMark Bigolovichhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/MarkBigolovich
<p><strong>Please help stop a BAD Washington KNIFE BAN Bill! <a href="https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5444-S2.pdf?q=20240214114941" rel="noopener" target="_blank">SB 5444</a> would BAN Knives on PUBLIC TRANSIT in Washington! The bill would make it illegal to possess ANY knife at a "transit station" including bus, train and trolley stops! This would make it illegal to carry a knife on public transit, period since you can't board without going through a…</strong></p>
<p><strong>Please help stop a BAD Washington KNIFE BAN Bill! <a href="https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5444-S2.pdf?q=20240214114941" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SB 5444</a> would BAN Knives on PUBLIC TRANSIT in Washington! The bill would make it illegal to possess ANY knife at a "transit station" including bus, train and trolley stops! This would make it illegal to carry a knife on public transit, period since you can't board without going through a transit station! We need your URGENT help to get "knives" amended out of this BAD BILL! </strong></p>
<p><strong>The hearing on SB 5444 is scheduled for first thing Friday morning, so <a href="https://kniferights.org/resources/congressweb/#/63" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EMAIL TODAY!</a></strong></p>
<p>Chefs would be unable to carry their knife roll. Tradespeople would be unable to carry their knife used at work. Fishers would be unable to carry a knife to clean their catch. The unintended consequences of SB 5444 will especially burden the economically disadvantaged who must use public transit.</p>
<p><strong>Use our <a href="https://kniferights.org/resources/congressweb/#/63" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Legislative Action Center</a> to easily email the Committee Members. <span style="color: #b8312f;"><em>You must have a Washington address.</em></span> Go to: <a href="https://kniferights.org/resources/congressweb/#/63" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://kniferights.org/resources/congressweb/#/63</a> </strong></p>
<p><strong>PLEASE FORWARD or SHARE this alert to your friends and associates who live in Washington and would support this bill.</strong></p>