C.J. Buck, a founder and current Board member of the American Knife & Tool Institute, will speak about the Outdoor Writers Association of America’s efforts “to clarify state and federal knife law” at the organization’s annual conference June 10.

AKTI’s language regarding bias toward closure enacted in Texas.

Kansas enacts AKTI’s bias toward closure language.

Hugh Carnes of Tennessee won a drawing for a one-of-a-kind Kershaw SpecBump at the 2010 SHOT Show Monday. The knife was the grand prize in a drawing open to all new or renewing members from May 15 to December 30, 2009.

Actual changes made to the Federal Switchblade Act, with language as suggested by AKTI, as signed into law by President Obama on October 29, 2009.