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Knife Rights’ Knife Owners’ Protection Act of 2025 (KOPA), H.R. 60, originally conceived and authored by Knife Rights in 2010 and introduced in 2013 as the first proactive pro-knife federal legislation in the nation’s history, has been marked up by the House Judiciary Committee in a 13-10 vote...

Knife Rights’ first in the nation bill to prevent banks from discriminating against persons and companies involved in “the manufacture, distribution, wholesale, supply, or retail of…knives,” SB 1027, has passed and is off to Governor Brad Little. Knife Rights is taking the lead in protecting the...

Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, was in Olympia, Washington, on Wednesday to lobby for SB 5534, the the bipartisan “Spring Blade” Ban Repeal bill, which went on to pass the Senate by a vote of 46-2. It’s now off to the House. SB 5534 would repeal the ban on sales and...

After over a decade of Knife Rights’ efforts, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed HB 1418 that enacts Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption in the state, becoming Act 161. The bill adds “Knives” and “Knife-making components” to the state’s existing Firearms Law Preemption...

The single most common questions and complaints I get as Chairman of Knife Rights revolve around social media censorship. Under newly appointed Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson, the Federal Trade Commission just issued a “Request for Public Comment Regarding Technology Platform Censorship.” Friends...

The Arkansas Senate passed HB 1418 that would enact Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption in the state by a vote of 28-1. The bill adds “Knives” and “Knife-making components” to the state’s existing Firearms Law Preemption statute. This bill already passed the House. Congratulations and...

That draconian Hawaii Knife Ban bill, SB 433, has been stopped, failing to receive a hearing by deadline! Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, flew to Hawaii and lobbied at the Capitol, explaining to Senators just how badly this proposed bill would impact ordinary...

Longtime Knife Rights friend Vermont Senator Patrick Brennan has filed SB 61 that would repeal the state’s ban on switchblade knives three inches or more in length. Switchblades (automatic knives) with a blade three inches or more in length are the only knives specifically outlawed in Vermont...

We are pleased to once again take the lead in protecting the knife industry from the adverse effects of anti-knife sentiment that unfortunately still exists among some in this country. Idaho SB 1027, a bill to enact the Transparency in Financial Services Act, was amended to add “knives” at Knife...

This week Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, spent a good deal of time in airports, airliners and hotels traveling to two committee hearings and sessions in Washington and then Arkansas just days apart. Our record of 50 bills enacted in 31 states is testament to the...

This week Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, spent a good deal of time in airports, airliners and hotels traveling to two committee hearings in Washington and then Arkansas just days apart. Our record of 50 bills enacted in 31 states is testament to the effectiveness of...

Last Friday President Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order “Protecting Second Amendment Rights.” While the EO is focused on firearms, as we often have to remind folks, the Second Amendment doesn't say "firearms," it simply says "arms," and that includes knives. The EO's Plan of Action...

Arkansas HB1418, a bill that would enact Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption, is up for a hearing on February 12th before the House Committee on City, County & Local Affairs. The bill adds “Knives” and “Knife-making components” to the state’s existing Firearms Law Preemption statute...

A bipartisan "Spring Blade" Ban Repeal bill, SB 5534, has again been introduced in Washington, this year by Senators Phil Fortunato and T'wina Nobles. HB 1224 would repeal the ban on sales and civilian possession of "spring blade" knives, as well as specifically exclude them from the definition...

Plaintiffs in our lawsuit challenging California’s ban on switchblade (automatic) knives with a blade 2-inches and greater on Second Amendment grounds have filed their Opening Brief on appeal with the infamously anti-2A United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. As we saw recently in...

Plaintiffs in Knife Rights’ federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of portions of the Federal Switchblade Act under the Second Amendment have filed their Response to the DOJ’s Motion to Dismiss and their Reply in Further Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment. The very...

Only months after celebrating the repeal of Hawaii's bans on butterfly, switchblade and gravity knives, and more, legislators have filed a bill, SB 433, that would absolutely ban carry, open or concealed, of most knives, and all knives in many public places in Hawaii! The proposed bans are...

Even when you win a Second Amendment case decisively in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, you may lose in court in the end, having won a battle, but not the war. Which is annoying as all get out, but we’ll take our wins as best we can, even as the war continues (see above). As you will recall...

With the signing of the Ohio Preemption Enhancement bill last week, Knife Rights reached a significant milestone: 50 bills enacted in 31 states in just 16 years! Knife Rights is fundamentally reshaping the legal landscape for knife owners across America. From repealing and preventing knife...

Missouri Representative Bryant Wolfin has introduced Knife Rights supported HB 446 which would repeal the state's ban on "knuckles," including Trench Knives, karambits and similar knives that have a ringed handle. Although knuckles ban repeal bills and the like are not core knife bills, they...