It would make state knife law supreme over the entire state, repealing existing local knife regulations and prohibiting any future knife regulations…
South Carolina Knife Law Preemption Bill Pre-Filed for 2014

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It would make state knife law supreme over the entire state, repealing existing local knife regulations and prohibiting any future knife regulations…
Knife Rights is continuing to re-write knife law in America with five Knife Rights bills pre-filed for the 2014 legislative session…
After two years of effort by Knife Rights and our sponsors, the Indiana legislature has repealed the state’s irrational ban on switchblade knives…
Tennessee is the seventh state to pass Knife Law Preemption since Knife Rights passed the first-in-the-nation Knife Law Preemption bill in Arizona in 2010, and the third state this year…
After two years of hard work, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has signed the Knife Rights comprehensive knife law reform act, HB2033 into law…
Researched and written by highly respected Second Amendment legal scholars David Kopel, Clayton Cramer and Joseph Edward Olson, the article makes the case that “Knives are clearly among the ‘arms’ which are protected by the Second Amendment.”…
New Jersey Assembly bill A1387 would permit municipalities to establish huge swaths of “weapons free zones” around schools, parks and public facilities within which possession of “any dangerous knife” would be prohibited, under penalty of fine and imprisonment…
The dismissal of these motions vindicates our position that there are real constitutional issues involved. The City cannot simply expand the state law to persecute knife owners.
An amended complaint adding two additional plaintiffs to the case was submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on May 23, 2012.
The hearing on SB432 will be held Tuesday, March 20. It is Knife Rights’ Knife Law Preemption bill that would repeal all local knife ordinances more restrictive than state law.
Your calls and emails made a big impact in the Senate. Now, please call or email and ask the members of the committee to vote YES on SB432 when it is before them for consideration.
Carry a Knife – Save a Life is a Knife Rights initiative to emphasize the value of carrying a knife every day for unexpected instances when it can literally be the difference between life and death.
The bad news is that last year’s ridiculous anti-knife bill, HB 1006, that would make it illegal to conceal any knife over 3 1/2 inches long, even with a WA concealed pistol permit.
Knife Rights filed its response to New York City’s Motion to Dismiss in our Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit against New York City and District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr.
Knife Rights requested initiative sponsored by Senators Jim Tomes and Johnny Nugent, which would overturn the state’s antiquated and irrational ban on the possession of switchblade/automatic knives.
If you don’t believe there are people and politicians working to implement bans such as these here in the U.S., you are not paying attention…
This is the Anti’s vision for knife owners in America, if we do not oppose them at every turn…
Please join us in voicing your opposition to this anti-knife, anti-business and anti-freedom ordinance…
David Jensen, has done an exemplary job blowing the DA’s arrogant, ill-conceived and baseless motion to pieces…
Knife Rights chairman Doug Ritter recently did a video, to explain what Knife Law Preemption is all about…
The proposed Boston ordinance “PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING OF STORES THAT SELL CERTAIN KNIVES” has been presented to the city council…
Knife Rights’ legal team continues to help new clients who have been arrested and continues to get their cases dismissed, the latest just last week…
For anyone who attended the infamous Gun Control hearings here a decade ago, the only difference was that the word “guns” was replaced with “knives.”..
Your pistol won’t get you in trouble but your pocket knife could put you away for a MINIMUM of six months, cost you a cool grand…
It commends to its readers five one-hand opening pocket knives, every one of which would be falsely deemed an illegal gravity knife by NYC District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr…
Sandy Froman, one of the nation’s foremost Second Amendment activists, will be the keynote speaker at Knife Rights’ Second Annual Sharper Future Awards Breakfast…
This includes removal of the proposed new definition of “Dangerous Knives” as any knife under 2-inches long and prohibitions on possession of knives on school grounds…
The bill adds to the list of weapons that the state prohibits in schools, including a sword, axe or hatchet, machete and so-called “dangerous knife,” meaning in her bill, any knife with a blade 2 inches or longer…
The following Letter to the Editor was submitted to the New York Times referencing the article that was published in the Sunday New York Times, December 5th…
Why anyone would go back to this 1950’s legislative mentality is beyond me,” said Doug Ritter, Chairman of Knife Rights…