{"id":11941,"date":"2009-06-24T06:32:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T11:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11941"},"modified":"2009-06-24T06:32:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T11:32:31","slug":"first-they-came-for-my-buck-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11941","title":{"rendered":"“First they came for my Buck knife….”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times<\/a> reports this morning that the Obama Administration, not content to change firearms regulations are looking at expanding the definition of switchblade knives in an effort to restrict access to all knives that can be opened with one hand; <\/p>\n

“Boy Scout knives, Swiss Army knives – the most basic of knives can be opened one-handed if you know what you are doing,” said Doug Ritter, executive director of Knife Rights, an advocacy group fighting to defeat the measure.<\/p>\n

“The outrage is gaining steam,” he said.<\/p>\n

Customs officials dismiss fears that the new language will outlaw ordinary pocket knives, saying the change was issued to clear up conflicting guidelines for border agents about what constitutes an illegal switchblade that cannot be imported into the United States. The rule could be imposed within 30 days if not blocked. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even Congress is worried about the regulation;<\/p>\n

The bipartisan Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus, boasting one of the largest memberships on Capitol Hill, last week sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who oversees CBP, urging her to quash the proposed rule change. The letter was signed by 61 Republican and 18 Democratic lawmakers.<\/p>\n

“This classification could render millions of law-abiding knife owners in violation of the law and expose major market retailers, manufacturers, dealers and importers to possible federal felony charges, and could drive domestic manufacturers and importers out of business, potentially costing thousands of jobs,” said caucus member Rep. Robert E. Latta, Ohio Republican. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More of the nanny state trying to protect us from ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times reports this morning that the Obama Administration, not content to change firearms regulations … “First they came for my Buck knife….”<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}