Auto knives are to be legal in the Old Dominion come July 1st. Now I can deploy the weapons of mass destruction with impunity!

https://www.nbc12.com/2022/03/...lizing-switchblades/

Good for you guys! I've been showing liberals for decades how much safer they are.

Nothing about them makes them more "lethal", everything makes them safer. One handed operation to safely lock a blade in, and one handed to lock it back out.

Hollyweird and zero brained libtards have perpetuated stereotypes and disinformation throughout generations, to the detriment of any who will entertain their ilk.

Texas did it a while back and nope, no one ran around slashing people with auto knives. Good to see laws changing.

Congratulations Virginia!

Tennessee fixed ours in 2014.
Before the update of the law, there was a restriction of carrying knives exceeding four inches of blade lengths

Currently... In Tennessee
Switchblades are legal.
Gravity knives and other automatic knives are legal.
All kinds of pocket knives are legal.
Balisong and butterfly knives are legal.
Knives that are disguised under stuff like a pen, cane, lipstick or belt buckles etc. are legal.
Bowie knives and other large single-edged knives are legal.
Dirks, daggers, and stilettos and other double-edged knives are legal.
All sorts of undetectable knives are legal.
Throwing knives, throwing stars, nunchaku and other martial arts’ weapons are legal.
Hunting, fishing or other utility knives are legal.

Knife Carrying Laws
They can be carried openly or concealed anywhere except for the restricted places such as schools, govt. places or buildings and courthouses.

Kansas did this a few years ago, after making assisted opening knives legal. When I took my CCW class back in 2008 I asked my instructor (a retired police department captain) about both types of knives, he said that, if he were still on the street he wouldn't have had a problem with assisted openers (depending on who he was dealing with, of course) and when I asked about auto knives he referred to it as "The original anti-gang ordinance".

Georgia has been good since 2012 and the INSTANT that changed, I went wild with them.

Heck, I just bought a Boker "California Legal" one just to keep in the car.

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Hollyweird and zero brained libtards have perpetuated stereotypes and disinformation throughout generations, to the detriment of any who will entertain their ilk.

You can blame movies like Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story.

Coming from VA, this is surprising, but pleasing.

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Coming from VA, this is surprising, but pleasing.

What’s really shocking was the near unanimous support it received in the state house. Just shows the last two Governor buffoons VA had were just fan boy liberals who wouldn’t know a switchblade from a M4.

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Originally posted by clubleaf206:
when I asked about auto knives he referred to it as "The original anti-gang ordinance".

An interesting observation that also occurred to me long ago. What I also find interesting is the history of “gang weapons.” Popular view had it that “switchblades” were popular among the Puerto Rican groups (gangs?) in New York and that was where the earliest bans occurred. I also remember a lot of discussion about “zip” guns which were (usually) homemade single shot pistols fabricated from such things as nails, rubber bands, and pipes.

Then the weaponry evolved to the “Saturday Night Special” which was a manufactured gun, but cheaply made, usually imported, and supposedly good for nothing but shooting people at close range.

Those guns were actually specifically targeted by legislation/rules that restricted their importation, so what was next? Sure: higher quality handguns that could be relied upon to be accurate and reliable. In time that evolved from revolvers to pistols with far higher magazine capacities.

And where are we now? Glock “switches” which I say can owe their popularity among certain groups to the ill-advised regulatory efforts directed originally at switchblade knives.*

* Yes, that’s probably somewhat of a stretch, but not entirely. And since it’s my story, I’m sticking to it.

And at least some of the idiocy about automatic knives is changing. Colorado eliminated its restrictions a few years ago.

Well, it's about damn time. Congrats.

Auto knives have been legal in Utah for as long as I have lived here. Circa 2005.

Congrats. Another area Washington state lags far behind. This year, and last year at least, there's been a house bill to legalize them. It hasn't gone past the filing stages yet either time. Banning high capacity assault magazines and ghost guns got the focus this year.

Yep Hollywood was in large part why they were made illegal, vilified in the movies. Scared by what they saw in movies, "we must do something about this!"

Hollywood and liberals moved on to "assault weapons" as the boogieman in more modern times.

Nice, you can own one but not carry it.

https://www.virginiamercury.co...lizing-switchblades/

I've carried one daily for years and have resisted the impulse to go on a stabbing spree. So far.

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Originally posted by mikeyspizza:
Nice, you can own one but not carry it.

https://www.virginiamercury.co...lizing-switchblades/

It took a few years to get from the one to the other here, but we can now legally carry them in Texas.

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Originally posted by mikeyspizza:
Nice, you can own one but not carry it.

Ridiculous

Knife without a spring - OK
Knife with a spring - OMG the spring makes it more deadly!

Same as:

Mini 14 with wood stock firing 5.56 - OK
AR-15 black aluminum and plastic firing 5.56 - OMG it's a weapon of war that is too powerful for mere citizens!

Indiana legalized automatics a while back and I have a few. Still, if you pull one out of your pocket and open it one handed around baby boomers? Shit man they are like, OMG it has a SPRING! So you need to go all the way and get an OTF double edged knife. And use it to peel fruit in front of the pearl clutchers.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by mikeyspizza:
Nice, you can own one but not carry it.

Ridiculous

My thoughts also.
From VCDL:
The law does not become effective until July 1. So, switchblades remain illegal until that date.
Switchblades cannot be carried concealed, unless in your own home or the curtilage around your home. We will work on fixing that issue in 2023. Open carry outside your home or having the switchblade locked out of reach is your only legal option until we get the law fixed on concealed carry.https://vcdl.org/mpage/VCDLUpdate031422

They're legal in Arizona also, and what I carry.

I can do the one handed thing with a conventional knife like a Buck or a Spyderco, but it's more convenient to have the knife do it for me.

Strange how the person carrying the instrument is more important in how it gets used, than the instrument itself.