New Knife Legislation in CO?

[BladesNBarrels]

In an email from the Knife Rights Organization, they announced the following

Colorado Switchblade/Gravity Knife Ban Repeal Introduced

SB 17-008 to repeal Colorado's Switchblade and Gravity Knife bans has been introduced by Senator Owen Hill (R-10) and Representative Steve Lebsock (D-34). The bill legalizes the possession and sale of a gravity knife or switchblade by removing such knives from the definition of "illegal weapon." Knife Rights is working with our friends in Colorado to assure the passage of this bill.

Knife Rights is rewriting knife law in America™. Knife Rights passed the nation's first repeal of a switchblade (automatic) knife ban in 2010 in New Hampshire and has since passed repeal of switchblade bans (and repealed other knife restrictions) in Alaska, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.







Will have to keep an eye on this!
Appears to be a simple 2-page bill.

[DOC]

Sign me up for a stiletto.

[ray1970]

I'd likely buy an auto knife if I could actually legally carry it.

[Grant H.]

I'd likely buy an auto knife if I could actually legally carry it.

Same here.

[Zundfolge]

I like it ... of course Hick isn't going to let the Jets and the Sharks be allowed slice each other up in the streets, daddy-o.

[brutal]

I would love to be able to take my Gerber 06 Autos out of the safe and be able to carry them again.

[beast556]

Hopefully it passes but I' m not holding my breath.

[ray1970]

Hopefully it passes but I' m not holding my breath.

Yeah, it won't pass. We still live in a blue state.

[JamesB]

It appears that SB17-008 is already scheduled for a hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee. It is scheduled to be heard on January 25, 2017. The hearing will start at 1:30PM. They will meet in Senate Conference Room 352. The Senators on the committee are Bob Gardner (R), John Cooke (R), Rhonda Fields (D), Daniel Kagan (D) and Don Coram (R). Feel free to ask them to support the bill.

While it is a long shot, I am hopeful that this bill will attract some Democratic support (it will need it in the House) because switchblade knife laws were enacted and created to enable police to pick on minorities. They are still used for this purpose, especially the hopelessly vague and ridiculous gravity knife laws. Maryland's ban on gravity knives was the ostensible basis for the arrest of Freddie Gray in Baltimore in 2015, where he died after his arrest.

Colorado's switchblade knife law was enacted first in 1951, at the height of the "scare" over these knives. In 1971, when the Colorado Criminal Code was rewritten, the law still in place was enacted. It is past time that this law banning mere possession of these knives, was repealed.

[TFOGGER]

As a dealer, I'd love to be able to sell these knives to someone other than sworn LEO and active duty military...