are switchblades illegal in california?
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Switchblades, as defined below and when possessed under the below conditions, are illegal.\n\n653k.  Every person who possesses in the passenger's or driver's area of any motor vehicle in any public place or place open to the public, carries upon his or her person, and every person who sells, offers for sale, exposes for sale, loans, transfers, or gives to any other person a switchblade knife having a blade two or more inches in\nlength is guilty of a misdemeanor.\n   For the purposes of this section, "switchblade knife" means a knife having the appearance of a pocketknife and includes a spring-blade knife, snap-blade knife, gravity knife or any other similar type knife, the blade or blades of which are two or more inches in length and which can be released automatically by a flick of a button, pressure on the handle, flip of the wrist or other mechanical device, or is released by the weight of the blade or by any type of mechanism whatsoever.  "Switchblade knife" does not include a knife that opens with one hand utilizing thumb pressure\napplied solely to the blade of the knife or a thumb stud attached to the blade, provided that the knife has a detent or other mechanism that provides resistance that must be overcome in opening the blade, or that biases the blade back toward its closed position.\n   For purposes of this section, "passenger's or driver's area" means that part of a motor vehicle which is designed to carry the driver and passengers, including any interior compartment or space therein.\n\nAnd I don't know where the "over six inch" thing comes from, because a knife that's three inches long, double-edged and concealed is every bit as illegal as one that's six inches or more.  \n\nDangerous things, some of you think you know.
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Yes but we call it an AR-15 \n\nIn the United States, variants with certain features were prohibited for new sales to civilians during the period 1994-2004 by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, under the provision known as the Assault Weapons Ban. Since the expiration of the AWB, however, those features are only illegal in part or in whole in certain states. A recent ban of AR-15s in the state of California sparked a renewed interest in the rifle. It is estimated that some 10,000 California Legal AR-15s are in existence in the state. Replacing the Lower Receiver of a standard AR-15 with one that has a fixed (10 round) magazine (see below for instructions) will render the firearm legal, and able to utilize "scary features" such as a telescoping stock and pistol grip. The magazine is not detachable, and to re-load the rifle you must pull a pin, lift the (now hinged) receiver, exposing the magazine, and load either with a stripper clip or by hand, then close. Popular lower receivers for this purpose are manufactured by Stag Arms, Fulton Armory, Mega and Ameetec. Stag makes a lower receiver called the STAG-15 which is considered an "off-list" receiver by the CA DOJ and is temporarily legal. This receiver can be made into a full rifle if the following requirements are met: the receiver has a fixed magazine with no more than 10 cartridges - in which case the rifle may have pistol grips, folding or collapsing stocks, etc.; or, the receiver may have a detachable magazine but may NOT possess any sort of attachment such as pistol grips, folding or collapsing stocks, etc.
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No, it is not a state law. It is, however, a common company policy. Since CA is a "work at will" state, your employment may be terminated for any reason.
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Check CA website or http://packing.org under the state info there is some of the knife laws listed
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No they are not illegal. They are nowhere in the world illegal. There is a law on what waepons are illegal - it is called ~the weapon law- you can find it in the public library in New York Manhattan.
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There are no state laws about it. Your county likely has a law that deals with it.
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Yes it is legal. That happened in Smiths Station, a suburb (and in a different COUNTY) of Phenix City.
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Hmm. Didn't know that. Probably because they're "concealed" weapons. I nearly went butterfly, but decided switchblade instead. Just as cool, and I'd probably cut my finger off trying to flash-flip around a butterfly knife.
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its illegal depending on where you are
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Yes, They are a weapon used to inflict injury to another person, they are not considered a toy or a collectible therefore the only reason to have them is to hurt someone.\nYou can't get a permit for them like you can a gun. Its the same as walking around with a big knife in your pocket. But if your going to beat someone up you are probably going to go to jail anyways so whats the big deal right?\nWrong, if you used your fist, it would be assault and battery, which is a misdemeanor offense, if you an object such as brass knuckles it is considered a felonious assault, which means you could go to prison . Felonies are hardly ever given probation for and usually carry stiff fines. And convicted felons are never aloud to vote again or join the military, live in federal or public assisted housing (HUD) or own a handgun.And in the state of new york not aloud to be a garbage collector (lol, strange law!!) \n.. Usually misdemeanors if convicted means probation and or fines or serve time in the local jail. Therefore it is wise not to ever uses a object to fight with. Big house,verses, little house....
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It is illegal as of now, but lawmakers are trying to push for to make the legal in places like movie theaters.  I just heard it on today's news.
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http://www.markarkleiman.com/archives/california_recall_/2003/12/bait_and_switch_in_california.php
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It's probably illegal in all the states. That's a form of harassment.
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most often if it is cased and locked, and in the trunk, also known as the 3 step rule (would take 3 steps to get a hold of the weapon) you are legal. the bugger issue is what kind of weapon is it? some places have outlawed posetion of classes of weapons. there is Federal law about transporting weapons across state lines (peaceable journey laws), but they have been ignored by some LEO's (NJ comes to mind).
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yes it is illegal it is called abuse of a corpse.
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The Nassau County Law ...\n\n- Prohibits the sale of boxcutters to minors\n\n"Section 3. Sale to minors.\na. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer to sell, give and/or provide, or cause another person to sell, offer to sell, give, and/or provide a box cutter to any individual who has not yet attained eighteen (18) years of age.\nb. Nothing in this section shall preclude an employer from temporarily providing a minor employee with a box cutter, so long as the instrument is used during said minor’s course of employment, and such instrument is used only under the supervision of the employer, or said employer’s agent."\n\n- Open display of boxcutters.\n\n"Section 4. Open display. Any person who sells or offers box cutters for sale, shall place such box cutters on display only if such items are: (a) contained within a sealed and locked case; (b) located behind the service counter with access limited to the seller or his or her agents or employees; or, (c) stored in any other manner which restricts access to box cutters by customers and/or the general public."\n\n- prohibits possession of boxcutters on school premises\n\nThe text quoted above was taken from the link below which contains the full text of the law on page 55 and 56. I suggest you read the rest of it to get the full information.\n\nHope this helps.
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Go here:\n\nhttp://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html\n\nAnd search for Penal Code section 12275.  That will tell you everything you need to know.\n\nIf it ends up leaving you with a question, call the Attorney General Firearms Division at the phone number listed on their website.