Not guns, but knives...

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Court cuts down Hawaii knife ban in controversial Second Amendment case (msn.com)

From the 9th Circus, amazingly.

Hopefully this will someday impact us in the PRNJ.  Some of the banned ones that I have might be able to come across the river from my mother's house in PA.

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18 hours ago, CMJeepster said:

Court cuts down Hawaii knife ban in controversial Second Amendment case (msn.com)

From the 9th Circus, amazingly.

Hopefully this will someday impact us in the PRNJ.  Some of the banned ones that I have might be able to come across the river from my mother's house in PA.

While I 100% agree with the case and decision (2nd A specifies "arms", not only "firearms") my first reaction was to wish that resources would currently be focused on firearms, for a number of reasons. However, a little research tuirned up this column from Bearing Arms, which speculates that the decision may help undermine one of the ridiculous analogies that anti-gun forces have raised in court to continue to justify clearly unconstitutional restrctions on AR, etc. under Bruen. If so, that would be a very good thing. 

Ninth Circuit panel tosses Hawaii's ban on butterfly knives

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"The Ninth Circuit decision in Teter v. Lopez doesn’t guarantee that the appellate court has seen the light when it comes to similar bans on modern sporting rifles, but if judges deploy the same logic used to overturn Hawaii’s ban on butterfly knives it’s difficult to see how they could let a prohibition on “assault weapons” remain in place. Just like with knife-involved crime, crimes where guns are used are nothing new. Complete prohibitions on the sale and possession of entire classes of firearms, on the other hand, are historical outliers far outside the history, text, and tradition of our right to keep and bear arms. The advancement of multi-shot revolvers and repeating rifles in the 19th century represented a sea change in firearms technology similar to that of semi-automatic firearms in the 20th century, but they did not lead to the kinds of prohibitions on the sale, manufacture, and possession of those arms that we’re witnessing in blue states today when it comes to “assault weapons”."