Calls needed to get pro knife law signed

[hso]

A little background - NYC has been charging people carrying standard one hand opening pocket knives as if they were carrying a gravity knife. Thousands of people. Folks who use their knives in construction and in shops and who are doing nothing wrong other than having a knife clipped to their pocket like you and me. Knife Rights has been trying to get the governor of New York to sign a bill that would stop the insane treatment of normal folders as if they were gravity knives.

Knife Rights' New York Gravity Knife Law Reform Bill

Transmitted to Governor Cuomo

CALL the Governor TODAY!

LET'S GET THIS DONE! Regardless of your personal views of Governor Cuomo or his politics on any other issue, if you live, work or travel in New York, or plan to, please CALL Governor Cuomo TODAY and simply deliver the message that you are "calling to respectfully request that Governor Cuomo please sign A5667-A," and then thank him. Please be POLITE and RESPECTFUL and REMAIN ON POINT OR THE EFFORT CAN BE WASTED.

THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO BERATE THE GOVERNOR ABOUT ANY OTHER POLITICAL ISSUES - STAY ON MESSAGE.

Knife Rights' Gravity Knife Law Reform Bill, A.5667-A, has been transmitted to Governor Cuomo. If you live, work or travel in New York, or plan to, CALL the Governor TODAY and STOP the OUTRAGEOUS arrests and prosecutions in New York City! The Governor now has 10 days (excluding Sunday) to sign or veto the bill, or allow it to become law without his signature.

The sponsors, Assemblyman Dan Quart and Senator Diane Savino, Knife Rights, and our partners including the Legal Aid Society, agreed to amend the bill to address Governor Cuomo's objections to last year's version which he vetoed on New Year's Eve. There is no logical reason for Governor Cuomo to do anything but sign this bill into law.

This bill passed the Legislature by overwhelming margins,136-1 in the Assembly and 61-1 in the Senate. This bill will prevent hundred's of bogus arrests every week in New York City. Martin LaFalce of the Legal Aid Society called these arrests and prosecutions "the most discriminatory criminal justice practice in New York State."

CALL Governor Cuomo TODAY at:

518-474-8390 and Press #1

(Depending on call volume, you may still be asked to leave a message.)


If you are a New York state resident, you can SEND AN EMAIL to Gov. Cuomo using Knife Rights Legislative Action Center.


Otherwise, Gov. Cuomo makes it painful to communicate with him online. If you are a masochist, you can go to:

www.governor.ny.gov/contact and fill out the lengthy form

(for "Topic" select: "Criminal Justice" and for Subject: "A5667-A").

WE RECOMMEND CALLING.


Again, please be POLITE and RESPECTFUL and REMAIN ON POINT; just deliver the message, "I am calling to respectfully request that the Governor please sign A5667-A," and then thank him. That's it, keep it short, simple and ON POINT and above all BE POLITE and RESPECTFUL.

 

[armoredman]

Good luck! Arizona passed a knife pre-emption bill years ago, which fixed a lot of these type of issues, and you are very right - a one handed opening pocket knife is a dandy tool for thousands of applications.

 

[hso]

Arizona passed a knife pre-emption bill years ago

AZ has been knife friendly for a long time. No surprise it is where Knife Rights is based.

 

[Speedo66]

NY's governor Cuomo vetoed the bill. Here's an article about it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/...mo-veto.html&eventName=Watching-article-click

 

[hso]

Mr. Vance’s office has argued that it dismisses the cases of people who have the knives for professional reasons, and that the proposed bill would have legalized more dangerous knives.

Well that's a lie, but the poor stiffs busted for carrying the same knife I have in my pocket plead out and eat the fines and lesser charges and Vance and his stooges don't dismiss a thing unless there's legal push-back.

 

[Speedo66]

What gets me is they allow the knives to be sold in local stores. The law reads that possession alone is illegal. If that's the case, why aren't they stopping the sales and arresting the store owners?

If you want to see action, get all the sales people and manager of a national big box store arrested. Cuomo would **** his pants if the CEO of Costco or Home Depot called his office.

 

[Sistema1927]

I am sorry to hear that he vetoed it.

I visited NYC this time last year, and you can be sure that I left the Ken Onion Leek at home and only carried a Case Sodbuster Junior, but only after trying my darndest to get that knife to open with a flick of the wrist.

 

[Speedo66]

The cops are expert at it, and will sometimes do it holding the blade itself which makes it easier.

 

[hso]

CEO of Costco or Home Depot

A little background will put that idea to bed - Vance thugged the big retailers in NYC by threatening them with charges of selling gravity knives (actually one hand openers and not real gravity knives) UNLESS they dumped the inventory AND contributed to a fund to theoretically reduce crime. This included all the big box retailers like Home Depot. They all rolled over. So, in this case the big retailers became complicit in this overreach by Vance and NYC.