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URGENT Knife Rights TEXAS ACTION ALERT HB2239 - EMAIL TODAY!

Tue, 20 May 2025 04:00:00 GMT

Knife Rights' Texas Knife Law Reform Bill, HB 2239, is now pending in the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee and we need your IMMEDIATE ACTION to get it a hearing and passed to the floor for a final vote.

TIME IS RUNNING OUT! DO IT TODAY! If you live, work or travel in Texas, please use Knife Rights' Legislative Action Center to easily send an email to the Chairman and members of the Criminal Justice Committee and to Lt. Governor Dan Patrick to ask for a hearing on HB 2239 at the Next Meeting!

HB 2239 would create an exception for two commonly visited places where Location-Restricted Knives (knives over 5 1/2 inches) are banned. Those locations are restaurants and bars that derive 51% of their income from sale or service of alcoholic beverages and amusement parks.

Help Pass Knife Law Preemption in Arkansas

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Arkansas HB1418 would enact Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption in the state. The bill adds “Knives” and “Knife-making components” to the state’s existing Firearms Law Preemption statute.

Knife Law Preemption is a Knife Rights’ criminal justice reform effort that repeals and prevents local ordinances more restrictive than state law which only serve to confuse or entrap law-abiding citizens traveling within or through the state. Preemption ensures citizens can expect consistent enforcement of state knife laws everywhere within a state.

Knife Rights passed the nation’s first Knife Law Preemption bill in Arizona in 2010 and has since passed preemption bills in Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Knife Rights is America’s grassroots knife owners’ organization; leading the fight to Rewrite Knife Law in America™ and forging a Sharper Future for all Americans™. Knife Rights efforts have resulted in 50 bills enacted repealing knife bans in 31 states and over 200 cities and towns since 2010.

Email Washington Senate Law & Justice Committeee to Support SB 5534

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 05:00:00 GMT

SB 5534, that would repeal Washington's "spring blade" (automatic) knife ban, is scheduled for a hearing on February 10th. If you live or work in Washington state (with a WA state address you can use), please use Knife Rights' Legislative Action Center to easily send an email to the members of the Senate Committee on Law & Justice in support of SB 5534. This bipartisan "Spring Blade" Ban Repeal bill, SB 5534, would repeal the ban on sales and civilian possession of "spring blade" (switchblade) knives, as well as specifically exclude them from the definition of "dangerous weapon." This is the latest effort to get this bill passed since 2020 after our bill was enacted legalizing assisted-opening folders and the manufacture of automatically opening knives (switchblades).