Feeble. Ill-supported. Nonsensical. Whatever you want to call it, Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison legal arguments supporting the Gopher State’s ban on automatic knives seem barely tethered to reality. But will a federal judge believe them?
Attorney and knife expert Anthony Sculimbrene examines the (almost) frivolous claims of the Minnesota AG in a case moving through the federal judicial system. If the judge doesn’t buy the horse hockey the state is bringing to the courtroom, maybe Minnesota eases up its outdated knife laws.
Read more about it in Sculimbrene’s column “Minnesota’s Last Gasp” that first appeared in the June 2026 issue of Knife Magazine.