Washington state’s draconian knife ban invoice from final 12 months, SB 5098, has reared its ugly head once more, as we advised you would possibly occur. The invoice did not get a flooring vote earlier than final 12 months’s legislature ended. Now it’s again and as a result of means Washington’s legislature works, the modification we labored so onerous to insert within the invoice to guard knife carriers to a big extent went away.
The unique invoice that will ban possession of “any knife” on over 6.5 million acres of public land in Washington, together with parks and such, absent the Home modification, has once more handed the Democratic managed Senate by a vote of 29 to twenty and has been despatched to the Home.
Whereas hardly excellent, the modification that was added with the help of our good friend Consultant Mari Leavitt excluded “possessing or controlling a searching or fishing knife carried for sports activities use, or a knife generally used for meals preparation, on the premises of a park facility or county fairground.” It is a good modification, and it’ll cowl an entire lot of knives, and made a really, very unhealthy invoice quite a bit much less unhealthy.
Rep. Leavitt has agreed to help us as soon as once more and we are going to work together with her and our different companions in Washington to get that modification again into the invoice because it strikes by way of the legislative course of within the Home. The modification isn’t our ideally suited answer, which might take away the knife ban totally, however it is much better than nothing in a state with a powerful anti-weapon bias within the legislature.
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Since 2010 Knife Rights’ efforts have resulted in 58 payments & court docket choices repealing knife bans & defending knife house owners in 36 states and over 200 cities and cities! Knife Rights is America’s grassroots knife house owners’ group; main the combat to Rewrite Knife Legislation in America™ and forging a Sharper Future for all People™.
