Attorney and knife expert Anthony Sculimbrene poses an interesting question in his latest column.
Namely, what, exactly, does this passage of New Jersey law mean:
“Any person who knowingly has in his possession any other weapon under circumstances not manifestly appropriate for such lawful uses as it may have is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.”
One thing Sculimbrene and knife owners across the U.S. can agree on is that this is one of the dumbest knife laws on the books.
Read more about it in “The Dumbest Knife Law in the U.S.,” which first appeared in the May 2026 edition of Knife Magazine.