Louisiana SB 194, that includes Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption language, received a bipartisan concurrence vote by the Senate and is now headed to the governor for his action.

Knife Rights would like to thank Dan Zelenka, President of the Louisiana Shooters Association, for his multi-year, multi-session commitment to assisting all our efforts in Louisiana. He has been a major factor in all our success there. We’d also like to thank Senator Blake Miguez who has sponsored a number of Knife Rights bills in Louisiana, including SB 194. He’s been a champion for Knife Rights for a long time. Representative Neil Riser also deserves our gratitude for so skillfully managing SB 194 on the House floor, against a myriad of wild questions and downright distortions about the bill's effects.

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.

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.

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 45 bills enacted repealing knife bans in 29 states and over 175 cities and towns since 2010.