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Fellow knife enthusiasts: I urge you to click on akti@akti.org and read "AKTI-It's a Busy Time". Please scroll down to Washington State HB 1006 introduced by Rep. Appleton regarding limiting knife lengths.
If you value your right to carry a knife, please realize that anti-knife groups are continually working to place limitations on knives and your right to carry one just as anti-gun groups are hard at work trying to place limitations on guns and your gun rights.
I am presently only a "grass roots supporter" of the AKTI (American Knife and Tool Intitute) which is an organization dedicated to preserving your knife rights just like the NRA is continually fighting to preserve our gun rights here in America. It costs nothing to be a "Grass Roots Supporter" but I plan on becoming a regular member for $35.00, later this month. I wish I could afford to contribute more.
It's a pity to realize that I feel it necessary to pay membership dues to support something which is guaranteed by our Constitution, but I unfortunately do. Just like I've paid for a conceal carry permit.
I urge y'all to give serious consideration to supporting the AKTI and NRA if you value your knife and gun rights or there will come a day when all you can do is keep your knives in a case and show them to your grandchildren while lamenting "I remember a time when it was legal to actually carry this".
That day is not far off if we do nothing.
Thank you, Kent
Tags: atki, knife, legal, legislature, support
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Permalink Reply by Steve Hanner on
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Thank you Kent, the organization does good work and needs our community's support.
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Once again our hope is you join this organization, even if you are not a paying member. When you see what they do you may decide to join in a paying status and represent our hobby.
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Breaking news..... Juneau, Alaska 2/14/12
Alaska Rep. Neuman Keeps Promise and Reintroduces Bias Toward Closure Knife Bill
Juneau, AK (February 14, 2012) – As AKTI reported in April last year, we were very pleased that Rep. Mark Neuman, House District 15, sponsored an Alaska bill to introduce the AKTI’s “bias toward closure” language we have successfully used in California, Texas, Kansas and other states, to protect knife owners’ rights to possess the knife of their choice.
Time ran out last year on the legislation, but as Rep. Neuman promised us, he reintroduced HB 55 – An Act adding definitions of ‘gravity knife’ and ‘switchblade’ to the criminal law.’ Clarifying these definitions protects the rights of knife owners from misinterpretation and potential criminal possession for a multitude of easy open knives used every day for work, hunting and fishing as well as other outdoor activities.
AKTI Board members met with Rep. Neuman last November and showed him several examples of assisted-opening and one-hand knives and answered his questions about these knives and the advocacy goals of the organization. We thank him for his interest and willingness to continue to sponsor this legislation.
Rep. Neuman is seeking support among Alaska legislators for passage of HB 55. As he states in his Sponsor Statement, “According to the American Knife and Tool Institute, there are over 35.6 million Americans who carry and use some type of utilitarian knife which opens with one hand.” “This bill simply clarifies that one handed hunting and utility knives do not qualify as a switchblade and as such are legally owned.”
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Permalink Reply by stephen tungate on
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It is a shame that we have to fight for rights that has been in our constitution for many years.but this is what our own goverment is making us do.ever time we turn around they are trying to take another right from us.we must stand up and fight for our rights like our for fathers.we need to let our govement know that we will not put any one up for re-election whom votes to try to take our rights as citizens away.for the price of less than a good knife we can start by doing as kent says.for 35.00 we can get a membership to AKTI in turn they will take that money to fight and help us keep what rights that we already have but must fight for to keep.also the NRA is great organization that also fights to keep our rights.please donate to these organizations so we all can keep what is rightfully ours in the first place,thank you kent and all who has brought this to our attention:::::
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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on
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Kent,
Thank you, I also support AKTI. This is the one organization that seeks out the info when ANY legislation is proposed for limiting knife rights. They make sure members (even at the grass roots level) are aware of when a campaign can be swayed by our input and who we need to contact. They send the attorney's in to have clarification and common sense instilled in any law they can. They also do an auction every month and the proceeds go to funding the legal fees involved.
Join at any level you can folks, AKTI is fighting for US!!!!
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Permalink Reply by KENT GABLE on
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Dear Jan, Stephen, James and Steve:
I'm glad to hear from y'all and know that we are in agreement on the importance of supporting the AKTI. It is indeed sad to realize that our 2nd amendment rights are under attack as well as other parts of America's Constitution. It's up to us to join in and support organizations like the AKTI and the NRA. What good is it to have a knife if we are not permitted to carry and use it? What gives government the right to decide what constitutes a "dangerous weapon" and what is not?? What gives them the power to make a crimminal out of me in one state while I'm a legal citizen in another?
I'm not sure but I've been told that a Bowie Knife is illegal in the Republic of Texas. I DO know that the maximum legal knife blade permitted is 5 1/2". In Texas of all places? Where men like Jim Bowie died at the Alamo with his Bowie knife in his hand? Fighting for freedom and Texas Independence. Is this what things have come down to? Or enter the city limits of Boston with a pocket knife that has a blade length of more than 2 1/2" and become an instant criminal? I've never been in trouble with the law and have always tried to follow it to the letter but today, I can become an instant criminal without even knowing it?
This certainly isn't American freedom, nor is it what our Founding Fathers ever envisioned. You can be d..n certain I'll kick in a lousy $35 to help out AKTI just as I support the NRA. It's a small price to pay to challange these bureaucrats and make 'em squirm a bit and my only regret is that I do not have the financial resources to contribute more.
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Knife Rights will once again be attending the New York Custom Knife Show, held this year in Jersey City, New Jersey, right across the Hudson River from New York where District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.'s persecution of knife owners and retailers continues. While our Federal Civil Rights lawsuit against the city and DA continues, yet again NYCKS must be held outside the city to ensure that no knifemakers, dealers or the public are subject to the DA's outrageous intimidation and abuse of the law.
This show has been held in New York for 32 years, until this year.
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Steve & Ron- whats the matter with with Feds & DA? Afraid of hearing a dissenting view point? You can bet they are. Too bad these meetings are always so far from me. My Ford 150 pick em up sure sucks gas and being retired on a limited income doesn't help things much either. My only recourse seems to be joining groups like the ATKI , NRA and writing our congressmen.
Maybe it's time to "Storm the Bastille!" -?
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Still checking for news on the success of that show forced to move hope to update this soon.
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Kent,
I am in...Lets storm
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Permalink Reply by Linda Thompson on
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As a Swede I find the American laws really strange. You live in a country where you can carry a loaded gun for self defence but people aren't allowed to carry a knife, which, after all, first and foremost is a tool? That is unbelivably strange. I'm so grateful for the Swedish knife law. It states that you can't carry any dangerous object unless you have a reason to. That means that the Police has the right to "disarm" a crazy drug addict who behaves really treatening with a screw driver. If it's really bad he can even be prosecuted. And at the same time ordinary people like myself can legally carry a huge machete if we have some bushes to chop.
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Hi Linda! Yes, I agree with you. There's just too many variations and ambiguity on knives especially. Usually though, it's the big cities that have different laws on knives & handguns athough knife laws and carrying a weapon seems to vary a great deal. It IS possible to obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon after taking a training course and an FBI check in 37 or 38 states but here again there are many variations in different states.
Too many laws! Too many lawyers and a bunch of politicians that want to govern every aspect of lives. Even our 2nd. amendment right to keep & bear arms. That's why I belong to organizations like the NRA (National Rifle Association) & now AKTA. We have to continually be on guard to protect our constitutional rights. Same problems with medical practice and frivolous lawsuits that have driven up our medical costs so high.
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