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I wish there were more titles like this one....
A challenge to New York's "gravity knife ban," under which, if any human in existence can flip a folding knife hard enough to open it, the owner will be arrested, draws the title of "Federal Court Hears Constitutional Challenge to a New York Statute that Incarcerates Working Class People of Color."
hat tip to Alice Beard....
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I thought a "Gravity knife" was one that when you pointed the business end of the closed knife at the ground and pressed a button, gravity did all the work.
The skill and finger strength and age of the knife had nothing to do with it, only gravity.
If it has to be flipped open, then a centripetal force, not gravity is used.
But then, in New York, the concept of gravity includes those factors not considered by physicists to be gravity.
"But a knife’s ability to be “flicked” open relies in part on its user’s strength and skill, Knife Rights argues, and is therefore inherently subjective. With no uniform test to determine what is and is not a gravity knife, the law as enforced is unconstitutionally vague, they say."
Another argument, not mentioned in the article, is that a folding knife fresh out of the box will normally be tight at the hinge and unflickable, BUT after months or years of use that hinge can and will loosen, so at some future point in time the legal knife would turn illegal.