Amicus (Friend of the Court) briefs supporting Knife Rights’ Fifth Circuit appeal of the ludicrous District Court decision in our lawsuit challenging the Federal Switchblade Act on Second Amendment g... have now been filed. These briefs are similar in nature to those filed the week prior in our Ninth Circuit appeal challenging California’s ban on switchblade (automatic) knives with a blade 2-inches and greater. Knife Rights really is the Second Front in the Defense of the Second Amendment™.

Amicus Brief of the National Rifle Association

Amicus Brief of Second Amendment Foundation

Amicus Brief of Firearms Policy Coalition

Amicus Brief of Mountain States Legal Foundation's Center to Keep and Bear Arms

The next step in this process is the Department of Justice's reply brief. Recall that the Trump DOJ continued the Biden DOJ's anti-Second Amendment position in th..., despite the change in administration and the President’s executive order “Protecting Second Amendment Rights.”  We hope that perhaps this time around the DOJ will reconsider it's Biden-era positions and follow President Trump's EO in it's brief to the Fifth Circuit.

Since 2010 Knife Rights’ efforts have resulted in 58 bills & court decisions repealing knife bans & protecting knife owners in 36 states and over 200 cities and towns! 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™.