BY KNIVES ILLUSTRATED STAFF
Knife Rights reports that Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) has introduced S.3264, the Knife Owners’ Protection Act of 2018 (KOPA), including repeal of the Federal Switchblade Act. This is a companion to their House KOPA bill, H.R.84, introduced last year. As originally conceived and authored by Knife Rights in 2010 and first introduced in 2013, these revised KOPA bills would remove certain restrictions on interstate trade in switchblade (automatic) knives that are legal to one degree or another in 44 states, while also protecting the right of knife owners to travel throughout the U.S. without fear of prosecution under the patchwork of myriad state and local knife laws.
Sen. Wicker said, “I am pleased to introduce the Knife Owners’ Protection Act. This legislation would provide law-abiding knife owners the appropriate protection when transporting knives across state lines. It would also repeal the antiquated Federal Switchblade Act. I look forward to working with my Senate colleagues to advance this sensible policy for knife owners.”