Another arms related case to SCOTUS?

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New York City has a law prohibiting "gravity knives" which the city has defined as ANY folding knife that a police officer can open with a flick of the wrist (or ten flicks, or a hundred flicks, or however many needed to get the blade to unfold) regardless of blade length.

Thousands of people carrying innocuous tools have been convicted of this offense.

Plaintiffs sued to nullify this ridiculous application of the law, but so far, the courts have upheld it. They have appealed to the US Supreme Court who have now directed NY City to respond to plaintiffs petition. https://kniferights.org/legislative-update/scotus-directs-nyc-da-to-respond/

While the suit is not based on a 2nd Amendment challenge, anything that furthers the ability of citizens to carry any sort of defensive tool is a plus.
 
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Yes, really. From the cert petition, page 11-12:
Under the Gravity Knife Law, using the Wrist Flick Test, Respondents have been arresting and prosecuting thousands of New Yorkers for possessing, not traditional gravity knives, but rather ordinary folding pocket knives that millions of law abiding people carry in their pockets every day all over the United States for overwhelmingly lawful, non-criminal purposes.
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I read somewhere it averages around 800 people a year.

https://kniferights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Cert_Petition_-and_Appendix_01142019.pdf
 
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