Posted: 7/30/2008 5:03:51 AM EDT
Any of your buddies gonna take me in for wearing these in the five boroughs? Just started the paperwork for a ccw, but have to go to nice places pretty often these days. |
Same as carrying a concealed handgun. If any part of it is exposed or someone can visually determine that you're carrying it, it's not concealed. |
It's not automatic and blade is only 3 3/8 "... is that considered a ccw ??? IIRC, open carry of any blade (in nyc) with intent to harm is a crime, open carry of any blade without intent to harm might be a problem, but concealed carry of a folding blade that's not a gravity knife, switchblade, auto, etc. with less than 4" should be ok, right? just can't let any part be visible. |
You and me both buddy! I am firmly convinced I was born both in the wrong century and the wrong geographical part of the country. 
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| Also, a city guy looking for an easy pinch will look at the "assisted opening" of the Kershaw and that would be seen as a sping activated knife too. I'm not saying this because it is correct. I'm saying it because I ask lots of the former city guys who come through where I teach. Most say they'd lock you up for it and let the DA figure it out. |
So nice to know that the NYPD is looking out for the rights of it's citizens. |
Assisted openers do not use gravity, centrifugal force or a spring and there is no button in the handle or anywhere else. Assisted openers also do not open automatically. If you're concerned get a CRKT M-16 which can be opened one handed just as easily as an assisted opener. A utility knife that can't be opened easily with one hand is useless for rescue purposes if one of your arms or hands is injured. 4. "Switchblade knife" means any knife which has a blade which opens automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring or other device in the handle of the knife. 5. "Gravity knife" means any knife which has a blade which is released from the handle or sheath thereof by the force of gravity or the application of centrifugal force which, when released, is locked in place by means of a button, spring, lever or other device. 5-a. "Pilum ballistic knife" means any knife which has a blade which can be projected from the handle by hand pressure applied to a button, lever, spring or other device in the handle of the knife. |
If they were going to take you in for just that, then they aren't my buddies! |
I'm not worried about getting pinched for a so-called semi-auto knife. but since you brought it up,  this guy is always in my car: very 'tough' knife. a little too bulky too carry. GREATEST clip in the business imo. (I used to keep a cold steel recon 1 in my car. nice big knife, but I wanted only folding knives under 4" when I moved to ny. the cold steel is 4" exact.) |
The above laws "loosly interpreted" are really what the officerS cited they could arrest for. They stated that if a folder with a loose screw could be made to open with centrifugal force then that met the criteria for a gravity knife. That a knife that, with a bit of hand pressure "sprung open" and locked, again, they could charge it. |
| I was stopped by NYPD in the subway when they saw a clip from my folding utility knife. It was on the day that I threw out the blade from it as it got dull and didn't put a replacement one in. I told them that it has no blade. The response was: "So it's a knife without a blade. Still a knife, though". It also didn't matter that I had an EMT license and that I work in construction industry. Luckily they saw a PBA card in my wallet and let me go. Idiots! I stopped carrying that knife. I got a Gerber Artifact with a folding exacto blade and have it in my pocket. |
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