Maine State Representative Joel Stetkis has introduced "an act to restore access to certain knives." This Knife Rights authored bill, LD 264, would repeal Maine's irrational and antiquated ban on automatic (switchblade) and gravity knives. This bill has been assigned to committee, so now it is time to call and write to the committee members.

Automatic knives are legal in 38 states (some with restrictions) and 26 states have no restrictions whatsoever on these knives. Seven of those 26 states have been added by Knife Rights since 2010. 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of a switchblade (automatic) knife ban in 2010 in New Hampshire and has since passed repeal of switchblade bans (and repealed other knife restrictions) in Alaska, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas. In Washington state knifemakers can now legally manufacture automatic knives.

If you live, work or travel in Maine, please contact the members of the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety and politely ask them to support LD 264. Click on link for emails and phone numbers for the committee members: http://www.kniferights.org/index.php...sk=view&id=301