Posted June 25, 2018 10:43 am by Comments

By Doug Ritter

Folding Knife Ban

Federal Appeals Court Panel Upholds New York City’s Unconstitutional and Discriminatory Gravity Knife Arrests – Knife Rights to Seek Rehearing by the Full Court.

After 7 Years 2nd Circuit Court Returns Flawed NY Gravity Knife Decision

Gilbert, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- On Friday a three-judge panel of The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in favor of New York City and District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. in Knife Rights’ long-running federal civil rights case challenging the City’s policy of treating any locking blade folding knife that can be “flicked” open as a prohibited gravity knife.

Knife Rights intends to petition for review of this erroneous decision by the full Court — a process known as en banc review.

In a 45 page decision (see below), the Court failed to focus on the essential constitutional problem with the law — that is, the total inability for anyone to ever determine if a knife they wish to possess is legal. Like the trial court, the Court of Appeals mistakenly focused on the past instead of the key Constitutional Due Process problem faced by folks any time they wish to choose a knife to lawfully possess in the present.

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