Thread: Under the Radar?

Originally Posted by fccexpert

The Customs Department has nothing to do with interstate commerce, only imports and exports either you mean the Commerce Department or this is all B.S. Can anyone provide a reference/link to the actual proposal (assuming it exists).

No its not BS. The fact is most knives sold out there are NOT made in the U.S they are imported. Even many of the well known brands are imported. I think its mostly the top of the line stuff that may be made in the U.S. At any rate a regulation like this would immediately stop probably over 90% of such knives from ever reaching the U.S. Once enacted the precedent would be set and domestic manufacture would follow suit.

Below was taken from the AG Russell website.

Customs threatens to make your folding knives illegal!
I am sending this e-mail to you because as a person interested in knives, you need to know about a proposal by U. S. Customs that would make a huge percentage of folding knives illegal in the United States. A couple of links are included below that will first give you much more information and secondly provide a site where you can find the information needed to contact the federal legislators for your state.

akti.org
congress.org

We ask that you at least send an e-mail to your two U. S. Senators and your U. S. Representative protesting this move by U. S. Customs. Go to http://delivery.agrussell.net/akti/letter.doc to download a sample letter that has been constructed by the American Knife & Tool Institute, of which I am a member, to help you draft your own letter to your legislator.

By the end of today, I will have personally emailed my own two Senators and my Congressman and then as many Senators and Congressmen in the Southern, Western and Mountain states as I can manage. ALL of their fathers and grandfathers carried knives everyday. In addition, we will make personal phone calls and send a faxed copy of our letter to the state office for the Senators and Congressman from our state with an attempt to make a personal contact with the Legislator.

Please email AKTI at [email protected] and tell us who you have contacted. This gives us weight when talking to Customs.

Best Regards

A.G. Russell, founder
A. G. Russell Knives