Hey, we don`t make laws! 🙂 I think the INTENTION is everything. In fact, “intention” is the guiding principle of many States. If you`re an old man in a casual suit leaning over tea in the corner of a restaurant, you probably won`t be questioned by a police officer if you have a dagger sheathed on your belt, but if you`re a cool-looking con man with shadows, hair combed back, and bulging muscles on your tank top. There is a good chance that a police officer will confront you if you have a small folding knife on your belt. I`m just saying.` Cheers, Pete Well NY laws prohibit any knife with a blade of more than 4″. Yes, it is perfectly legal to possess a looter or cold steel knife, as long as it is single-edged and not intended to be used as a weapon, but to be used. Although the looter looks menacing and would advise to carry it, you could easily call it a Leakle knife and you`d be fine, I live near Binghamton and have read the laws. They would be fine, legally it`s allowed because there are no length restrictions in New York, unless NYC NYC has much stricter laws than NYS itself. I guess it should be treated the same as a traffic quote. In the sense that it is better to plead not guilty and see if the court offers to reduce the charge to something less serious at the hearing. It can also come in handy with background checks. Since it probably won`t be good if it turns out that you have that particular load on your plate. You could possibly use this as a valid reason to respectfully request a fee reduction.
Remember that the court is not really there to ruin your life, they just want to make money quickly with you. If you are on your own land and have a permit, that`s for sure. If you`re in town or in public, stick to one side that you finish with a pocket folder. but think of ONE THING! No matter the situation, the circumstances and the cause. If you pull the knife to use as Cuban clay without opening the blade, you still have a knife drawn according to the law. Keep it on your private land as you see fit, and check for “Make My Day” laws in your area. I know that if an abuser threatens your life in the presence of a police officer, you have the right to defend yourself and usurp the laws of the MMD, but that is all I know. However, simply owning a sword and keeping it in your home or property is legal. In this section, we discussed knife laws in various New York City cities. So, here`s what you need to know: If a policeman had stopped me and asked me what I was carrying in my bag, I would have politely and calmly told him that it was an antique Japanese sword and that I was on my way to a collectors` club. That never happened, but that would have been my approach.
Fun fact, we have membership cards with the club address on them, which probably would have helped. I`m not sure, but an officer completed me on my solid blade attached to my hip when I pulled it out to open a box of 12-gauge grenades. I guess as long as you respect reason and the most common laws, you can wear almost anything. That being said, based on my own research and experience in the United States, including New York State, swords are more or less legal, but not legal, to wear in public. Do not carry a sword or try to “hide” a sword. Transportation is a grayish area when it comes to “obfuscation”, but in practice, it is the smart approach when passing through a club, a house or other. Seriously, take a look at the protection doctors have from criminal charges – they can`t be charged for it in a civil trial except through offenses, meaning aggrieved patients have to pay thousands of dollars in advance fees and more if they want their abuser brought to justice. That, or making written reports to various faceless entities and vaguely hoping that your abuser will actually be investigated, because it seems like no one wants all the hours of records we have, prove that they lied in the medical records, so chances are nothing will happen, and you`ll never know. So you do not have to live in fear of the doctor who victimized you, perhaps in the only nearby hospital that you currently have access to, and of all the other doctors who could do the same thing without any effect, because the disabled are also the poorest and least willing to afford this type of complaint.
I belong to the NY Token Kai, a club that appreciates old Japanese swords and accessories. Before quarantine, we met monthly on one floor of an office building in Times Square. So every month there were ~15-30 collectors running around with swords in golf bags, gym bags, whatever, between their car/subway and the office building around Times Square. New York State knife laws apply equally to concealed and unconcealed knives. Some municipal or transportation regulations in the New York metropolitan area restrict the open carrying of knives. A stick sword is defined as a staff or bragging staff that hides a blade that can be used as a sword or stiletto. Story time: Once we hung out, chatted, looked at the dozen swords on the table, when a few policemen entered the room. This is somewhat surprising because it is a closed office building, on the upper floor, on Sundays.
It turned out that they had nothing to do with us, they were there to set up a guard point because of a political event or a demonstration or something like that. Anyway, the cops didn`t care about the sword-filled room at all, except for at least one who showed a slight interest and started a few conversations about them with our members. I want to try to get in touch with my representative from New York State to try to revise these current knife laws. All knife enthusiasts and owners need to band together and write or make phone calls as well as make a personal appearance with/for representative.it is all too easy to be arrested because they are carrying a tool for which many have been arrested and convicted, and we need clear guidance on what we can and cannot do.