Knife Rights Wins 2 in New York; 3rd Win Blocked by Senate Republicans!

[critter]

With the adjournment of the New York Legislature, Knife Rights and knife owners can chalk up two wins and one disappointing loss. Both the proposed Machete Ban and the Draconian Ivory Possession and Transportation Ban were defeated. The "fix" to the gravity knife statute that would end bogus New York City knife arrests did not pass for the second year in a row when Senate Republicans refused to vote on the bill already passed overwhelmingly by the Democratic controlled Assembly (for the second year in a row).

(Click on Links above for full details on each bill.)

However, the wins and loss come with an asterisk. All three bills will remain active through next year's session, beginning where they left off this year. So, we'll have to be back in Albany next year to again lobby against against both bills we defeated this year and to support the "fix" to the state's gravity knife law that didn't get over the finish line this year.

Senate leadership has assured Knife Rights that they will consider a knife law reform bill next year. Knife Rights encourages all New York knife law reform supporters and Second Amendment supporters to hold the Senators' feet to the fire over the next six months. At every opportunity, every meeting, every town hall, keep up the pressure by insisting they support knife law reform next year.

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Politicians are calling for stricter anti machete laws.

[The Deacon]

Would have been vetoed by DEMOCRAT Cuomo, of SAFE and “conservative Republicans have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are.” fame, anyway.

[critter]

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Politicians are calling for stricter anti machete laws.

Avella is the sponsor for the Machete Ban bill we stopped this year, just taking advantage of the recent violent crime to justify his bill.

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Would have been vetoed by DEMOCRAT Cuomo, of SAFE and “conservative Republicans have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are.” fame, anyway.

Perhaps, but hardly certain since it was a Democratic sponsored bill that was overwhelmingly approved by the Assembly. If it had passed the Senate, there would have been a great deal of pressure on him from his own party to sign it. Unfortunately, the Senate didn't vote on it so this year we'll never know.

[brick]

It's disappointing. I think part of the problem is that a majority of upstate knife owners (nevermind citizens in general) don't even realize there's a problem. We don't see the same kind of abusive arrests (yet) and it wouldn't even dawn on most casual knife owners that a common pocket knife might be illegal to carry. I've warned a couple of friends and coworkers to be careful about their locking EDCs and they think I'm just being paranoid.

I plan to be more vocal next time around.