Knife Rights helped advance SB 17-008, a bill to repeal Colorado's Switchblade and Gravity Knife ban, which previously passed the Senate. It was reported out of the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 10-1. It now moves to the Committee of the Whole, and hopefully then to a final vote. The bill legalizes the possession, carry and sale of a gravity knife or switchblade by removing such knives from the definition of "illegal weapon."

Knife Rights' Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, was in Denver this week lobbying committee members on the bill to overcome objections raised by some, which clearly was effective. He also prepared exhibits used by the bill sponsor, Rep. Steve Lebsock, during the hearing. Rathner testified at the hearing and assisted in defeating an amendment that could have caused confusion and slowed down progress of the bill, possibly endangering its passage.

We'd like to thank the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Colorado and County Sheriffs Of Colorado for supporting this important criminal justice reform bill.

Knife Rights is rewriting knife law in America™. Knife Rights passed the nation's first repeal of a switchblade (automatic) knife ban in 2010 in New Hampshire and has since passed repeal of switchblade bans (and repealed other knife restrictions) in Alaska, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.

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