EMAIL & CALL NOW! BLADE Show/Georgia Knife Preemption Bill up for Senate Vote

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Congratulations! With your help, the Georgia Senate passed SB432 by a vote of 41–12. SB432 is Knife Rights' Knife Law Preemption bill that would repeal all local knife ordinances more restrictive than state law. Now it moves to the House for consideration.

Your emails and calls have made a difference in moving this bill. Thanks for your help!

We'll let you know when it's time to email and call House members.

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If You Attend BLADE Show, or Ever Plan To - ACT NOW!

The Georgia Senate Rules Committee has sent SB432, Knife Rights' Knife Law Preemption bill that would repeal all local knife ordinances more restrictive than state law, to the full Senate for a vote. Congratulations! Your emails and calls are making it happen! But, it isn't over yet!

This bill lives or dies on the Senate floor on Wednesday. ACT NOW!

If you live in Georgia, please email and/or call your Senator and ask them to vote YES on SB432.

Find your Senator here: http://www.senate.ga.gov/senators/en-US/SenateMembersList.aspx

If you are a BLADE Show attendee from outside of Georgia, then you need to email and/or call the Senate Leadership (listed below) and ask them to pass SB432.

IMPORTANT: In your email or when you talk to each Senator's secretary, tell them that that you are a BLADE Show attendee and that the BLADE Show represents MILLIONS of dollars to the Georgia economy. It also represents many hundreds of JOBS in Georgia. All those hotels and restaurants we stay at and eat in during BLADE Show employ many hundreds of people and SB432 will help support BLADE Show! You deserve to not have to worry about local knife restrictions when traveling to and attending BLADE Show and even a single unjustified and highly publicized arrest could adversely affect BLADE Show attendance!

Senate President Pro-Tempore - tommie.williams@senate.ga.gov Phone: 404-656-0089

Senate Majority Leader, Chip Rogers - chip.rogers@senate.ga.gov Phone: 404-463-1378

Senate Majority Caucus Chairman, Bill Cowsert - bill.cowsert@senate.ga.gov Phone: 404-651-7738

Senate Majority Whip, Cecil Staton - cecil.staton@senate.ga.gov Phone: 404-656-5039

Democratic Leader, Steve Henson - steve.henson@senate.ga.gov Phone: 404-656-0085

Democratic Caucus Chairman, Doug Stoner doug.stoner@senate.ga.gov Phone: 404-463-2518

PLEASE NOTE: SENATOR STONER'S DISTRICT INCLUDES COBB GALLERIA, home of BLADE Show. BLADE Show means millions of dollars and jobs to HIS constituents and you should specifically ask that he help lead the effort to pass SB432!

Democratic Whip, Vincent Fort - vincent.fort@senate.ga.gov Phone: 404-656-5091

Also: Senator Judson Hill represents a district that includes hotels and restaurants that also serve BLADE Show attendees, so his constituents also directly enjoy the economic benefits - judson.hill@senate.ga.gov (404) 656-0150

As home to BLADE Show, successful passage of SB432 would not only ensure Georgia residents carrying a knife are treated fairly wherever they travel in Georgia, but all those traveling to Blade though towns and cities with knife laws more restrictive that Georgia's otherwise decent knife laws, would be safe from violation.As an example, Atlanta city ordinance makes it illegal to carry any automatic or any knife with a blade longer than three-inches "readily available for use."

SB432 is sponsored by Knife Rights' good friend, Senator Bill Heath, who has worked hard getting it through to this point. Now it is important for ALL of US to help him get it through the Senate (and then on through the House).

Knife Law Preemption protects honest citizens from a patchwork of local ordinances and rules that can entrap those traveling within or through a state in possession of knives that meet state law or wherever they live in the state. A person can be charged with a violation of law when they have no intention of violating the law.

BLADE Show, held annually in Atlanta, Georgia, is the world's largest knife show and pumps millions of dollars into the local and state economy. SB432 will protect the thousands of exhibitors and visitors who travel to and from BLADE Show to buy, sell or simply enjoy the thousands of knives on display and the many knife-related events associated with BLADE Show.

EMAIL RIGHT NOW! CALL WEDNESDAY MORNING!

PLEASE, Pass This Along!
 
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