Maine was added to the growing number of states repealing laws restricting certain types of knives.

AKTI honored Senators Enzi and Wyden for their tireless work on the Knife Owners’ Protection Act (KOPA), a bill that will ensure federal protection for lawful knife owners from the current patchwork of state and local knife laws.

AKTI continues to support New York legislation to make sure knife owners are not arrested for possession of a “gravity” knife that is ill-defined and has nothing to do with illegal intent to use the knife.

Maine bill by Rep. Stetkis will allow anyone who lives, works or travels to Maine to use a valuable automatic knife – will be effective October 15, 2015

Effective July 1, 2015 Nevada will remove prohibitions on dirks, daggers, switchblades (longer than 2 inches) and belt buckle knives. It would NOT repeal the prohibitions on machetes. Nevada did NOT enact statewide uniformity.