But US knife law is no where near as stringent, over-bearing or ridiculous as those in the UK and Australia. Laws are made to criminalise the law abiding I think. Due to recent changes in laws here, I could be defined as a criminal as some of the knives I've had for years, have now been re-defined as restricted weapons. Am I going to get rid of them?! No. I've never used them to harm anybody. I carry one of the restricted ones on me everyday. Have done so for years, well before the new laws. It is the handiest and most used knife I have.
We don't need to have springs in ours to make them unlawful. You just have to be able to mangage to open it one handed. The way this test is applied is for someone to continously shake the shit out of the knife while having a firm grasp of the handle. If they can get the blade to come out a small part of the way and can manage, then to 'flick' it open from there, it comes under the defination of a 'flick' knife.


Mick