Ammoland by Doug Ritter 9/1/2020
Knife Rights Foundation today announced the filing of an important Amicus Curiae (Friend of the Court) brief in a Second Amendment lawsuit currently before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The case, captioned Teter v. Connors, challenges the State of Hawaii's outright ban on butterfly knives. You can view or download the brief at
http://bit.ly/teter-kr-brief.Previously, the district court ruled in favor of the State on its motion for summary judgment, finding that Hawaii's butterfly knife ban “does not severely burden†the Second Amendment and that it survives intermediate scrutiny because it “further[ed] the State's important interest to promote public safety by reducing access to butterfly knives, which leads to gang related crime.†If that sounds like a regurgitation of the baseless arguments used to enact switchblade bans in the 1950's, that's because it is.
Balisong knives are legal to possess and carry in at least 43 states (16 because of Knife Rights' efforts repealing switchblade and butterfly knife bans since 2010), and Hawaii is one of only three states that specifically ban these knives. The district court's flawed analysis failed to consider that Hawaii had no ban on these commonly available knives until 1999, and data does not show that the ban was tailored to an actual problem, let alone that it meaningfully reduces crime.
More:
https://www.ammoland.com/2020/09/knife-rights-amicus-brief-filed-in-hawaii-butterfly-knife-second-amendment-case/#axzz6WqjecEq1