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.

Effective September 1, 2015 Texas municipalities and counties may not enact knife laws.

The American Knife & Tool Institute has an aggressive legislative plan to repeal and rewrite U.S. knife law in 2015, eliminating confusion, archaic terms and clarifying what knife owners, sellers and makers need to know.