Bill to Ban Pocketknives

SB126

Report Title: Dangerous Weapons; Pocket Knives; Sale

Description: Prohibits sale of pocket knives. Defines pocket knife.


THE SENATE S.B. NO. 126

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

STATE OF HAWAII A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DANGEROUS WEAPONS.


BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 134, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new
section to part III to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:


"134- Pocket knives; sale prohibited; penalty. Any person who knowingly
manufactures, sells, transfers, possesses, or transports a pocket knife in
the State shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

As used in this section:

"Pocket knife" means a knife with a blade that folds into the handle and
which is suitable for carrying in the pocket."

SECTION 2. Upon the effective date of this Act, no person shall import or
manufacture pocket knives into the State for the purpose of selling or
distributing pocket knives.

SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2010.

Guys,
Please call and ask your senator to oppose this bill. This could affect people when they are hunting or fishing, or working on a farm, garden, wherever... What to ban next? Baseball bats?

that is ridiculous...no small buck pocket knife in my pocket any more? Who could have thought this one up?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

What genious proposed this one?

I'm sure 99.99 percent of all so called "pocket knife" uses are for utility. And they surely save more lives than they take.

Furthermore, if somebody is intent on carrying a weapon with them, they aren't limited to knives, nor would any criminal be prevented from carrying a knife by this law- only law abiding citizens would be effected. Criminals don't abide by laws. So in a sense, this would have negative effects on our safety.

I emailed Gary Hooser but it wouldn't surprize me if he supported it.

Oh well guess i cant clean my nails wile waiting for the dogs ,or stab and slice the spam when we are cooking in the mountains ......what a crock of B S next theyll ban shoe laces so we dont hang any body nothing more I like doin then slaughtering my dogs with my chevron texaco collectors item pocket knives .........i really liked the tweezer and tooth pick guesss those were dangerous to my health!!! this state is going down loony lane!!!!!

Holy Cow! WTF? that is totally ridiculous, pretty soon we won't be able to have knives in our kitchens either, they might be dangerous to the meat and fruit we need to cut, pretty soon we won't be able to eat meat or harm fruit either.........okay, what kind of person goes to the trouble to even write such a stupid law and take it this far? I can't help but think there's no way for this one to pass. Does this mean a sheath knife is okay, but a folding one that goes in your pocket isn't? anyhow, Okay I'm done ranting about it, something like this is hardly worth my breath......
Very Well said in the previous post- "Looney Lane" here we come!