New Hampshire Representative Jennifer Coffey's Knife Rights Bill
The Second Amendment isn't limited to guns; it's about "arms." State Representative Jennifer Coffey has submitted a bill in the New Hampshire legislature to remove the ban on automatic and double-edged knives for honest citizens. Rep. Coffey is a "Bill Of Rightist": she's the National Coordinator of Second Amendment Sisters, and a Senior Advisor of Pro-Gun New Hampshire.

Coffey's bill is supported by many state and national organizations, including but not limited to:

-- SAS (Second Amendment Sisters);
-- CCRKBA (Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms);
-- Firearms Coalition, The Hard Corps
-- JPFO (Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership);
-- Cam and Company of NRA News;
-- Pro-Gun New Hampshire;
-- NHAC (New Hampshire Arms Collectors Association);
-- NHFDA (New Hampshire Firearms Dealers Association);
-- Knife Rights, Inc;
-- AKTI (American Knife and Tool Institute);
-- BLADE magazine;
-- GUNS magazine
-- American Handgunner magazine
-- Knife World magazine;
-- Cutlery News Journal; and
-- Benchmade Knives.

Currently, New Hampshire state law allows you to possess automatic or double-edged knives (legally called "switch knives" and "daggers"), but not carry them; further, these knives cannot be sold in the state! Jenn's bill would legalize sale and carrying of these knives, but impose a separate criminal penalty if they're used on another person with the intent to commit a crime. This approach takes the emphasis off the knife (the tool) and places it on the criminal. The bill has bi-partisan support, and is co-sponsored by the NH House floor leaders of both parties. It will be decided in the New Hampshire legislature in early 2010.

Wow, PX.  Those blades are works of art.  I wouldn't use them to cut anything, either. 

I used to lose knives at a high rate, so I gave up buying Kershaws, Case, etc., many years ago.  I find a fairly cheap knife (under $20) that I can open with one hand, made of reasonably good steel (takes a good edge and retains it for awhile), and then I sharpen frequently. 

I've also driven the pivot pin out of a couple of them and polished the pivot end of the blade to make it move slicker and easier -- that's one of the problems in finding a knife that will open one handed. 

It's funny, though.  I've got a Buck I paid $10 in a pawnshop 20 years ago and haven't lost it, yet.  I've also got a Browning that I've owned for about 10 years that I paid $16.87 for at Big-5 Sporting Goods.  Neither of them has the beautiful blades your knives have, but since I started buying cheap knives I quit losing them.  Go figure.