Second Amendment Sisters, Inc.

Knife rights and gun rights both come under the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. The Second Amendment refers to “arms,” not guns.  In the Heller decision (which agreed that there is an individual right to keep and bear arms), the U.S. Supreme Court actually referenced the book "Swords & Blades of the American Revolution" in arriving at their decision. Just recently the federal government attempted to classify virtually all one-hand-opening knives as switchblades under federal law; fortunately, this effort was legislatively thwarted by the NRA, Knife Rights, American Knife and Tool Institute, Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Unfortunately, New Hampshire has a prohibition against knives that can be misinterpreted in the same way. I have put forward a bill supported by both parties which removes this threat to your right to keep and bear arms, yet at the same time increases the penalty for those who would use knives to commit crimes against people.