New York Governor Cuomo's New Year's Eve veto overruling the New York Legislature's overwhelming passage of last year's bills means we have to start again, for the fourth year in a row.
Knife Rights has worked closely with our allies in New York to craft a bill that directly addresses the Governor's concerns while also protecting innocent knife carriers in New York City from unjust arrests. The bill removes "centrifugal force" from the definition of a gravity knife to create a bright line definition that even New York City law enforcement and prosecutors can understand, as desired by the Governor. It would preclude the unconstitutionally vague "wrist flick" test that has resulted in over 60,000 arrests and persecutions in New York City and which the Governor himself described as "absurd."
Any true gravity knife, as the term is understood everywhere but in New Yolk City, will still be prohibited by the "released from the handle or sheath thereof solely by the force of gravity" portion of the definition in the bill, but common folding knives could no longer be considered gravity knives.
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