Knife Rights’ Knife Owners’ Protection Act of 2025 (KOPA), H.R. 60, originally conceived and authored by Knife Rights in 2010 and introduced in 2013 as the first proactive pro-knife federal legislation in the nation’s history, has been marked up by the House Judiciary Committee in a 13-10 vote. The bill in now ready to be considered by the full House of Representatives.

View the video of the hearing.

Sponsored by Rep. Andy Biggs, KOPA would protect law-abiding knife owners traveling throughout the U.S. from the vagaries of restrictive state and local laws. If possession of the knife is legal where the journey starts and ends, and provided the knife is secured in accordance with KOPA, a knife owner would no longer be threatened with arrest simply for traveling from one place to another even if passing through a jurisdiction where the knife is illegal. Read the KOPA FAQ for answers to any questions you might have.

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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 51 bills enacted repealing knife bans and protecting knife owners in 32 states and over 200 cities and towns since 2010.