The "Turn in a knife, save a life" seems to be crossing over from the UK... in New York.

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http://www.guns.com/2016/04/07/new-y...ation-measure/


The bill, S.3199A, adds machetes to the list of deadly weapons in the state to include switchblade, gravity and ballistic knives, daggers, metal or plastic knuckles, and billy clubs and blackjacks. Possession of which would be a misdemeanor crime resulting in as much as a year in jail.

Avella proposed a similar measure last year that failed to gain ground after a fatal machete attack on Long Island.
Legal defense against possession charges of such “per se” weapons, in which the possessor has to show they did not intend to use it unlawfully, has led to multiple challenges in recent years. In one such case in 2015, an electrician charged with possession of what NYC police deemed a gravity knife won a $57,000 settlement when a court found the blade in question to be a utility knife used to strip insulation off wiring.

Progress on the bill comes the same week New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio held up a drop in murders and shootings in the Big Apple, while admitting slashings and stabbings are on the rise.

The number of knife attacks in the city for the first quarter of the year has increased by more than 20 percent to 899, compared with the same time last year, which saw 746 such assaults.



Could it be that there are bigger issues than the piece of metal?