Possessing a unique combination of knife industry knowledge and intimate familiarity with the U.S. legal system, attorney Anthony Sculimbrene has joined forces with the American Knife and Tool Institute (AKTI) as contributing counsel.

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The Constitutional threshold is the common use for lawful purposes. Any other interpretation would incentivize, if not require, the carry of knives to be restricted to types with highly evolved weapon characteristics.

Whatever the issue or the legislative body debating it, getting a proposed bill to become law is incredibly byzantine and laborious. There are concessions and edits throughout the process, and even the most straightforward and simple proposal undergoes hours and hours of review and debate. This is by design. The framers intentionally created our system […]