There are certain officers/muncipalities/chiefs of police that DON'T want you to have an assisited open knife.They ARE ignorant of the law and WANT you to believe them due to their own personal agenda.I believe in the letter of the law and let the prosecutor's office/legislature/courts decide gray areas.This is NOT a gray area tho.
his "position" can be want ever he wants. but the fact is the law is written the way it is written. option #3 only applies to "propelled"blades.
If there's any doubts notice the word "propelled" and it's definition VS "opens"
I know it seems silly to base something being legal to own on who sells it but I hardly believe these stores would sell them, and they do. If there was any chance of them being illegal. I mean Wal-Mart has one of the largest law teams in the world.
Indy317,
The SOG knife you referenced DOESN"T use anything in the handle to start the movement of the blade to overcome the spring pressure keeping the blade in the 'closed' position.The item you see in the handle is the ARC LOCK.It has NOTHING to do with initiating the forward momentum of the blade.
You are obviously not going to carry an assisited knife and are currently too paranoid to do so.That's your perogative but you are trying to define something in the Indiana Criminal Code that doesn't exist.
I am done with your interpretations of the I.C. Code I enforce every day.
Or join AKTI and they will fix it! They have gone to bat for knife owners in just about every state and took on Customs for the same assisted knives you talk about being somehow illegal that were about to not be importable and they WON!
there is law, and then there is what YOU think the law says. bottom line: if assisted knives were illegal in indiana, big box store would not carry them here. officers would be arresting people for carrying them, and then you would be seeing it splashed all over. but you don't.
this whole arguement is pretty ridiculous. you can argue semantics all you want. your still wrong.
and honestly, you don't know what your talking about when it comes to knives.
Didn't know you were the supreme law of the land.
Give me the Indiana court case that ruled these knives legal. That is all I ask for. Until then, I feel that a police officer has probable cause to arrest someone based on the law as it is written. Are you telling me that the buttons/switches in these knives don't "propel" the blade at all?
As far as police officers arresting people, have you pulled _every_ arrest record in this state to back this statement up? I didn't think so. For all we know, people _have_ been arrested for having such knives and that have taken plea deals and went on with their life.