Knife News | The Cutting Edge https://blog.knife-depot.com/category/knife-news/ The official blog of Knife Depot Thu, 16 May 2024 17:17:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.knife-depot.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cropped-kd-favicon3-32x32.png Knife News | The Cutting Edge https://blog.knife-depot.com/category/knife-news/ 32 32 Hawaii Legalizes Automatics, Butterfly Knives, and More https://blog.knife-depot.com/hawaii-legalizes-automatics-butterfly-knives-and-more/ https://blog.knife-depot.com/hawaii-legalizes-automatics-butterfly-knives-and-more/#comments Thu, 16 May 2024 17:17:12 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=20984 Hawaii has officially repealed the ban on the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, and transportation of various knives, including switchblades, butterfly knives (aka balisongs), gravity knives, and more. This means you can legally own and carry all of these knives in Hawaii. It’s important to note that the ban on concealed carry is still in effect […]

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]]> https://blog.knife-depot.com/hawaii-legalizes-automatics-butterfly-knives-and-more/feed/ 3 NYC’s Ban on Gravity Knives Upheld by Federal Appeals Court https://blog.knife-depot.com/nycs-ban-on-gravity-knives-upheld-by-federal-appeals-court/ https://blog.knife-depot.com/nycs-ban-on-gravity-knives-upheld-by-federal-appeals-court/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:19:08 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=13130 Hot off the heels of a ruling by the highest court in New York State that potentially makes all assisted-opening knives illegal, a federal appeals court upheld New York City’s vague ban on gravity knives. The case of Copeland v. Vance has been a long-running battle between Knife Rights and New York County District Attorney […]

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]]> https://blog.knife-depot.com/nycs-ban-on-gravity-knives-upheld-by-federal-appeals-court/feed/ 1 Student Suspended for ‘Doing the Right Thing’ After Bringing Knife to School https://blog.knife-depot.com/student-suspended-for-doing-the-right-thing-after-bringing-knife-to-school/ https://blog.knife-depot.com/student-suspended-for-doing-the-right-thing-after-bringing-knife-to-school/#comments Thu, 21 Sep 2017 17:06:50 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=10616 It’s another one of those what-is-this-world-coming-to stories. An eighth grader at a middle school in Pennsylvania was suspended for three days and may face a 10-day suspension after accidentally bringing a pocket knife to school. The story wouldn’t be so shocking thanks to school policies these days, but the boy had actually done the right […]

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]]> https://blog.knife-depot.com/student-suspended-for-doing-the-right-thing-after-bringing-knife-to-school/feed/ 10 Spyderco Says Knife Disassembly Does Not Void Warranty https://blog.knife-depot.com/spyderco-says-knife-disassembly-does-not-void-warranty/ https://blog.knife-depot.com/spyderco-says-knife-disassembly-does-not-void-warranty/#comments Tue, 18 Apr 2017 19:21:29 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=9694 Over the years, Spyderco has made it crystal clear that if you disassemble your knife, it will void the warranty. At one point in 2010, Spyderco marketer Kristi Hunter said it in plain terms on the Spyderco forums: Disassembling a Spyderco voids the warranty. Period. There was a question about this being a “myth”. It […]

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]]> https://blog.knife-depot.com/spyderco-says-knife-disassembly-does-not-void-warranty/feed/ 1 Medford Launches Knife-Centric Comic Book Titled ‘Jack Knyff’ https://blog.knife-depot.com/medford-launches-jack-knyff-comic-book/ https://blog.knife-depot.com/medford-launches-jack-knyff-comic-book/#respond Thu, 30 Mar 2017 18:07:26 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=9573 Are you looking for some way to get that youngster in your life into knives? We’ve got the thing for you. Behold “The Adventures of Jack Knyff.” Yes, Medford Knife and Tool has launched a brand new comic series following the tales of Jack Knyff. The idea behind the new comic is pretty interesting. Greg […]

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]]> https://blog.knife-depot.com/medford-launches-jack-knyff-comic-book/feed/ 0 PA Court Rules Switchblades Aren’t Covered Under Second Amendment https://blog.knife-depot.com/pa-court-switchblades-not-covered-second-amendment/ https://blog.knife-depot.com/pa-court-switchblades-not-covered-second-amendment/#comments Sat, 11 Mar 2017 16:49:00 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=9479 A panel of judges in the Pennsylvania Superior Court reaffirmed a ruling Thursday that says switchblades are not protected under the Second Amendment. In a short non-precedential opinion published Thursday, the three-judge panel struck down an appeal filed by a man arrested for carrying a switchblade, also known as an automatic knife. (See the difference between […]

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]]> https://blog.knife-depot.com/pa-court-switchblades-not-covered-second-amendment/feed/ 7 Watch a Diver Remove a 12-inch Knife from Shark’s Head https://blog.knife-depot.com/watch-diver-remove-knife-from-sharks-head/ https://blog.knife-depot.com/watch-diver-remove-knife-from-sharks-head/#respond Fri, 10 Mar 2017 18:36:59 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=9470 As dive instructor Brett Johnson and his students were scuba diving off the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean, he noticed a three-foot nurse shark in the sand near a hanging reef. “I was guiding a dive and spotted the nurse shark in the sand,” he said to the local news. “Obviously something wasn’t right and […]

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]]> https://blog.knife-depot.com/spyderco-tool-used-ongoing-effort-free-blue-whale/feed/ 6 UK Looking to Ban the Sale of "Zombie Killer" Knives https://blog.knife-depot.com/uk-looking-to-ban-the-sale-of-zombie-killer-knives/ https://blog.knife-depot.com/uk-looking-to-ban-the-sale-of-zombie-killer-knives/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:22:08 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=7291 It’s a well-known fact by now that the UK is cracking down on knives, but police officials across the pond are now taking aim at a specific type of knife: zombie killer knives. “Zombie killer” knives or, as we like to call them, zombie apocalypse survival tools are a genre of knives that many consider […]

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