The addition of machetes to New York’s list of items classified as “deadly weapons” will undoubtedly result in numerous legal controversies as citizens adjust to the new rule. In fact, there is reason to believe they have yet to fully adjust to past rules regulating the use of other such weapons:
“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 $57,000 settlement when a court found the blade in question to be a utility knife used to strip insulation off wiring.
Progress on the bill comes the same week New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio held up a drop in murders and shootings in the Big Apple, while admitting slashings and stabbings are on the rise.
The number of knife attacks in the city for the first quarter of the year has increased by more than 20 percent to 899, compared with the same time last year, which saw 746 such assaults.
‘Stabbings and slashings aren’t going away,’ Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said at the press conference, noting that such crimes are a ‘reality’ of living in New York City.
No direct mention was made by Bratton or de Blasio concerning machetes.”
Source: Guns.com
Photo: New York Daily News
Man, you better start hiding your cutlery, your baseball bats, and your power tools!!
How about sharp sticks? Glass, base ball bats, rocks, tire jacks ,Jack handles,human hands, water, tall buildings, metro rail, all steel bars of all types catching on you liberal morons!!
This one is a good idea. Foreigners like to just big knives on Americans and one another. What use is this knife in a city?
TRUMP 2016!!!!!
How about adding hoes and shovels you liberal$#%&!@*holes !!!!!!!!!!!!
Haha next your going to ban forks
Oh really Dan Blood, I didn’t vote for those gun grabbing bastards. And I’m a New Yorker and I am far from being a whip. So if you think your man enough to face me a Fellow New Yorker bring it on. And we will see who is the whip But you will have to change your diaper because you will probably$#%&!@*yourself from fear.