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Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, was in Dover yesterday to testify in support of SB 108. Geri Elliott from Willey Knives also gave great testimony from the perspective of a knife retailer, letting the Committee know how SB108 will positively affect her family business...

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Knife Rights’ Vermont Switchblade Ban Repeal bill that was incorporated into the “Court Procedure; Criminal Procedure; Miscellaneous Amendments” bill, S.109, has now passed both the Senate and House and is off to the Governor for his anticipated signature. Once signed the effective date will be...

Knife Rights' Texas Knife Law Reform Bill, HB 2239,is now pending in the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee and we need your IMMEDIATE ACTION to get it a hearing and passed to the floor for a final vote. TIME IS RUNNING OUT! DO IT TODAY! If you live or work in Texas and have a Texas...

Knife Rights' Texas Knife Law Reform Bill, HB 2239, was passed by the House unanimously on the Local & Consent Calendar. It now moves to the Senate. Knife Rights congratulates our bipartisan sponsors Representatives Harold Dutton and Marc LaHood and co-sponsors Briscoe Cain, Mark Dorazio, Andy...

After testimony from Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, Delaware bipartisan Senate Bill 108 was unanimously released by the Senate Judiciary Committee "on its merits." SB 108 would remove the restrictions on sale or possession of automatic (switchblade) knives. It also...

Knife Rights' Texas Knife Law Reform Bill, HB 2239, was voted out of the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee with a unanimous bipartisan vote. Next up will be a floor vote. HB 2239 would create an exception for two commonly visited places where Location-Restricted Knives (knives over 5 1/2...

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed Knife Rights supported SB1360 which adds "Knives, saps, and other bladed or blunt-impact defensive weapons“ to Tennessee's existing statute that protects firearms manufacturers from liability caused by the actions of third parties. The bill also covers those...

The North Carolina House passed HB 439, our Concealed Knife Carry bill, with a bipartisan vote of 71-37. The bill now moves to the Senate. This bill would clarify the state's previously vague statute so that a folding knife that is not a switchblade may be carried concealed by anyone, including...

Knife Rights has filed its Plaintiffs' Reply Brief in our appeal of the absurd decision in our lawsuit challenging California's ban on switchblade (automatic) knives with a blade 2-inches and greater on Second Amendment grounds. Our brief slices and dices California Attorney General Bonta's...

With the Washington legislature ending its session April 27th, Knife Rights scored a win against a draconian knife ban bill! SB 5098, which started life as a sweeping gun ban, soon morphed into a radical ban on possession of “any knife” on over 6.5 million acres of public land in Washington...

In Knife Rights' Second Amendment lawsuit against the Federal Switchblade Act we hoped that the Trump administration, through Attorney General Pam Bondi, would come through on the President’s executive order "Protecting Second Amendment Rights" and AG Bondi’s recent statement that, “the prior...

Knife Rights’ Knife Owners’ Protection Act of 2025 (KOPA), H.R. 60, originally conceived and authored by Knife Rights in 2010 and introduced in 2013 as the first proactive pro-knife federal legislation in the nation’s history, has been marked up by the House Judiciary Committee in a 13-10 vote...

Knife Rights’ first in the nation bill to prevent banks from discriminating against persons and companies involved in “the manufacture, distribution, wholesale, supply, or retail of…knives,” SB 1027, has passed and is off to Governor Brad Little. Knife Rights is taking the lead in protecting the...

Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, was in Olympia, Washington, on Wednesday to lobby for SB 5534, the the bipartisan “Spring Blade” Ban Repeal bill, which went on to pass the Senate by a vote of 46-2. It’s now off to the House. SB 5534 would repeal the ban on sales and...

After over a decade of Knife Rights’ efforts, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed HB 1418 that enacts Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption in the state, becoming Act 161. The bill adds “Knives” and “Knife-making components” to the state’s existing Firearms Law Preemption...

The single most common questions and complaints I get as Chairman of Knife Rights revolve around social media censorship. Under newly appointed Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson, the Federal Trade Commission just issued a “Request for Public Comment Regarding Technology Platform Censorship.” Friends...

The Arkansas Senate passed HB 1418 that would enact Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption in the state by a vote of 28-1. The bill adds “Knives” and “Knife-making components” to the state’s existing Firearms Law Preemption statute. This bill already passed the House. Congratulations and...

That draconian Hawaii Knife Ban bill, SB 433, has been stopped, failing to receive a hearing by deadline! Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, flew to Hawaii and lobbied at the Capitol, explaining to Senators just how badly this proposed bill would impact ordinary...

Longtime Knife Rights friend Vermont Senator Patrick Brennan has filed SB 61 that would repeal the state’s ban on switchblade knives three inches or more in length. Switchblades (automatic knives) with a blade three inches or more in length are the only knives specifically outlawed in Vermont...