Bureau of Customs and Border Protection is banning A.O. knives (Merged) - Page 5

GettingOld2 · June 7th, 2009, 01:10 PM

I keep a large Spyderco attached to my life jacket when kayaking. Nearly every boater of any kind carries something comparable. Throw in hikers, campers, Boy Scouts, Sky Divers, etc. and there is no way this will stand.

wolfshead · June 7th, 2009, 05:52 PM

Didn't Sotomayor ban Nanchucks in NY?

The Volokh Conspiracy - Sonia Sotomayor versus the Second Amendment:

TVJ · June 8th, 2009, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by SIGguy229

Interesting....since I bought a SOG Aegis (AOK) while deployed here in Afghanistan, are they telling me I can't bring it back? Again--these kinds of laws create more criminals than they do to "stop crime"...unelected bureaucrats should not be making "laws" that affect the citizenry, but make policy that affect how they carry out their duties. If it affects the citizenry, then the Department should go back to Congress and ask "Mother may I?"

Yes!

Sheldon J · June 8th, 2009, 03:43 PM

from Obama Now Wants Your Pocket Knife | Pro-Gun New Hampshire

Oh boy there goes my Kershaw...

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Obama Now Wants Your Pocket Knife
by Evan F. Nappen, Esq.
June 4, 2009

Beware! That folding knife in your pocket may turn you into a criminal if the Obama administration gets its way. Although there has been a lot of fear and speculation that the new administration wants to take your guns, the most pressing threat now is actually to your pocket knives. With the changing of the guard at U.S. Customs, that agency has now embarked on redefining "switchblades" under federal law to include a wide variety of one hand opening knives that never were intended to be prohibited. In fact, many of the knives U.S. Customs now seek to prohibit under the Federal Switchblade Law had not even been invented at the time of its enactment! Furthermore, four previous U.S. Customs ruling letters (prior administrations) specifically determined "assisted opening" knives not to be defined as switchblades.

This new proposed U.S. Customs regulation is so broad that thousands of pocket knives will fall under its sweep and millions of knife owners will be affected. The problem is not simply that imports will be banned (which is bad enough), but that the "agency determination" will be used by domestic courts and law enforcement to determine what a "switchblade" is under both federal and state laws. Many states, including New Hampshire, fail to define switchblades and simply rely on the federal definition.

Luckily, the two premiere knife organizations in the US, American Knife and Tool Institute (AKTI) and Kniferights.org, are fighting hard on this issue, but they both need your immediate help. Customs is attempting to jam this new regulation though at record speed.

As stated on the Knife Rights - Home website:

U.S. Customs has proposed revoking earlier rulings that assisted opening knives are not switchblades. The proposed new rule would not only outlaw assisted opening knives its broad definition could also easily be interpreted to include one-handed opening knives and even most other pocket knives.
Note that customs interpretation of the Federal Switchblade Act forms the basis for national, state and even local law and judicial rulings in many cases. The effect is NOT limited to just imports.
As stated on the American Knife & Tool Institute (AKTI) Keeping Knives in American Lives website:

URGENT NEWS - U.S. Customs Proposal would characterize assisted-openers as switchblade knives and jeopardize all pocket knives. On behalf of the entire sporting knife industry and knife owners across the country, AKTI will be filing an official response to U.S. Customs.
This is the biggest threat to American knife owners in U.S. history. AKTI informs us that this "Customs' proposal will make criminal out of 35.6 million Americans."

AKTI further states:

U.S. Customs proposes to bypass Congress and expand the switchblade definition to include all knives that open with one hand. These include multi-tools, traditional pocket knives, one-hand openers, and assisted-openers.

More than 35.6 million law-abiding Americans now own one-hand-openingknives in one of the above four categories.
The U.S. Customs proposed new rule and the four prior letters they want to overturn can be read in their entirety here: http://www.akti.org/PDFS/U.S.CustomsProposedRuling.pdf

AKTI suggests that to register your opposition to the U.S. Customs'plan (19 CFR Part 177) to re-classify assisted openers and all folding knives; address your comments by June 21, 2009, to:

19 CFR Part 177
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Office of International Trade, Regulations and Rulings
Attention: Intellectual Property and Restricted Merchandise Branch
Mint Annex, 799 Ninth St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20229

ExSoldier · June 8th, 2009, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by BentLink

Letter on it's way.

Me too! Sent to my Rep and both Senators.

ExSoldier · June 8th, 2009, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by SIGguy229

Interesting....since I bought a SOG Aegis (AOK) while deployed here in Afghanistan, are they telling me I can't bring it back?

Depends. If you redeploy to or thru a USAF base as I did when returning from a deployment to Germany, the customs check was merely cursory if that. The guys who came home from Grenada back in 1983 had NO customs check, witness the fact that the 2nd Ranger Bn brought back many full auto AK47s, a couple of RPGs and some cuban hand grenades. All war trophies and many still in the possession of those now former troops. For months there were reports of Rangers getting into fights with a "townie" in a bar and rolling a grenade into the bar by way of "thanks for the memories"....

TucAzRider · June 8th, 2009, 04:30 PM

Ya,.. Go figure,. Soon owning anything that could defend yourself will be illegal if the NWO and Hussein gets there way..

unloved · June 8th, 2009, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ExSoldier

Me too! Sent to my Rep and both Senators.

Did you write to CBP?

Remember, comments must be received on, or before June 21.

PointnClick · June 8th, 2009, 04:39 PM

When there is actually a website devoted to "knife rights", we have fallen so very far...

packinnova · June 8th, 2009, 06:08 PM

All need to take heed and remember all the flack we all gave our British brethren last year when all of their nonsense knife bans were being pushed even further...

June 7th, 2009, 01:10 PM	#41
GettingOld2 Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Virginia Posts: 85	Wait for the Sportsman to become aware of this! I keep a large Spyderco attached to my life jacket when kayaking. Nearly every boater of any kind carries something comparable. Throw in hikers, campers, Boy Scouts, Sky Divers, etc. and there is no way this will stand.

June 7th, 2009, 05:52 PM	#42
wolfshead Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Mercer Island WA Posts: 432	Didn't Sotomayor ban Nanchucks in NY? The Volokh Conspiracy - Sonia Sotomayor versus the Second Amendment: __________________ Vince K Aerospace Designer, Freemason, NRA member ___________________________________ ma nishma?

June 8th, 2009, 04:30 PM	#47
TucAzRider Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Tucson Posts: 792	Ya,.. Go figure,. Soon owning anything that could defend yourself will be illegal if the NWO and Hussein gets there way.. __________________

June 8th, 2009, 04:39 PM	#49
PointnClick Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Florida Posts: 618	When there is actually a website devoted to "knife rights", we have fallen so very far... __________________ "Who is to say that I am not an instrument of karma? Indeed, who is to say that I am not the very hand of God himself, dispatched by the Almighty to smite the Philistines and hypocrites, to lay low the dishonest and corrupt, and to bust the jawbone of some jackass that so desperately deserves it?"

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