Knife Rights to Argue Legality of Non-Locking Folding Knives at CA Supreme Court

By Doug Ritter

Gilbert, AZ –-(Ammoland.com) – Nearly a year ago, Knife Rights and the Second Amendment Foundation filed a “friend of the court” (amicus) brief in a case that asks the California Supreme Court to rule that common, non-locking Swiss Army Knives and similar pocketknives are not illegal “dirks” or “daggers” when carried concealed with the blade open. This coming Wednesday the attorney who wrote the brief, George M. Lee, a partner at the San Francisco law firm of Seiler Epstein Ziegler & Applegate, will join the Defendant and Appellant’s attorney, Raymond Mark DiGuiseppe, in arguing the case in front of the California Supreme Court.

Attorney DiGuiseppe offered to share some of his limited time in front of the Justices to our attorney in view of the exceptional merit of our arguments included in our amicus brief. We are certainly appreciative of this opportunity to defend the rights of knife owners in California.

The case stems from a dispute over section 16470 of the California Penal Code, which defines a dirk or dagger as “a knife or other instrument…that is capable of ready use as a stabbing weapon that may inflict great bodily injury or death.” But, …Read the Rest

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