Jun 5, 2023
If Supreme Court precedent has not taught us anything, the Second Amendment applies to all bearable arms. We learned that even includes arms not imagined by our founders, so naturally that means knives are a protected arm. In 1958 a law was enacted that severely limited how commerce could occur with switchblade knives. Knife Rights, an organization dedicated to the repeal of unconstitutional laws regulating bladed arms, recently announced they're challenging portions of the law in a federal court. Knife Rights has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of portions of the Federal Switchblade Act (Title 15 Chapter 29 §1241), originally enacted in 1958, that restricts the introduction into interstate commerce of common automatically opening ("switchblade") knives. It also challenges the ban on their possession on Native American reservations and in U.S. territories. The definition of a "switchblade knife" includes gravity knives and butterfl