While Gov. Cuomo vetoed the previous two overwhelmingly passed similar bills (2016 & 2017), in significant part due to the opposition of New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. who has championed his prosecutions under the law, even Vance has indicated he will not object to this bill. Gov. Cuomo’s own Attorney General has come out in support of this bill, saying, “I believe it’s high time that gravity knives be removed from the penal code.”

Martin LaFalce of the Legal Aid Society, who has written a number of Amicus Briefs in support of Knife Rights Federal civil rights lawsuit challenging NYC’s and Vance’s discriminatory enforcement of the law against owners of common folding knives, said, “this is the most unfair law-enforcement practice in New York state.”

Knife Rights’ longtime allies in this effort, sponsors Assemblyman Dan Quart and Senator Diane Savino and Senator Robert Jackson, are to be congratulated for gaining unanimous approval of this bill this time around.

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