http://theportlander.com/knife-law-could-hurt-oregon-business/ News For Portlanders, By Portlanders Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:30:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://theportlander.com/knife-law-could-hurt-oregon-business/comment-page-1/#comment-1109 Chas Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:15:18 +0000 http://theportlander.com/?p=550#comment-1109 I believe you and many people have miss understood what is happening. The "new" law is simply a revision of the wording to make it more clear what constitutes a switchblade which is illegal vs. an assisted opening folder with a detent system which is legal. A lot of people think the latter is a switchblade when they see it, but when one understands the differences it becomes clear. Knife manufacturers know this difference and if anything else they should be glad to be protected by more distinguishing letters to the law. California's PC653K law is an example of a well worded version on knife code and is what the Federal Government is aiming for. Also you might refer to <a href="http://zknives.com/knives/articles/law/caknifelaws.shtml" target="_blank">http://zknives.com/knives/articles/law/caknifelaw...</a> for an easy to understand explanation of knife code. I believe you and many people have miss understood what is happening. The "new" law is simply a revision of the wording to make it more clear what constitutes a switchblade which is illegal vs. an assisted opening folder with a detent system which is legal. A lot of people think the latter is a switchblade when they see it, but when one understands the differences it becomes clear. Knife manufacturers know this difference and if anything else they should be glad to be protected by more distinguishing letters to the law. California's PC653K law is an example of a well worded version on knife code and is what the Federal Government is aiming for. Also you might refer to http://zknives.com/knives/articles/law/caknifelaw... for an easy to understand explanation of knife code.

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