It’s telling that something like this is actually necessary in the U.S.<\/p>\n
Minnesota: Constitutional Amendment Protecting Knives Introduced<\/a><\/p>\n Minnesota State Senator Paul Utke and Representatives Cal Bahr, Tim Miller, John Poston, Erik Mortensen, Eric Lucero, and Donald Raleigh have introduced, respectively,\u00a0SF 1026<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0HF 824<\/a>, Constitutional Amendment bills \u201cproviding for the right of the people to acquire, keep, possess, transport, carry, transfer, and use arms including firearms, knives, or any other weapons and ammunition, components, and accessories for these arms.\u201d<\/strong> Knife Rights appreciates our friends in Minnesota, including knives in this proposed amendment.<\/p>\n Minnesota is one of only six states without specific constitutional protections for the right to bear arms (the others are California, Iowa, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York).<\/strong><\/p>\n This is the first such proposed amendment, or strengthening existing protections, that specifically calls out \u201cknives\u201d as being protected. While the commonsense interpretation of constitutional protections for \u201carms\u201d would seem to generally protect knives (see\u00a0Knives and the Second Amendment<\/a>), that hasn\u2019t historically been the result in every relevant state legal case that has been adjudicated. As recent examples, cases in Connecticut and Wisconsin on appeal affirmed that knives were protected; a New Mexico lower court decision that was never appealed said switchblades were not protected (raised as a defense in the case) and suggested other knives wouldn\u2019t be protected either.<\/p>\n The\u00a0proposed amendment<\/a>\u00a0includes much stronger protection of the right to bear arms, including knives than is found in most such constitutional protections. These added protections are designed to counter infringements on the right to bear arms allowed by various courts over the years.<\/p>\n Knife Rights will let you know when it is time to contact your legislators to support these bills. If passed by a simple majority in both houses, voters would vote on the amendment during the 2022 General Election. It must receive \u201ca majority of all the electors voting at the election\u201d to be ratified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s telling that something like this is actually necessary in the U.S. Minnesota: Constitutional Amendment Protecting Knives Introduced Minnesota State Senator Paul Utke and Representatives Cal Bahr, Tim Miller, John Poston, Erik Mortensen, Eric Lucero, and Donald Raleigh have introduced, respectively,\u00a0SF 1026\u00a0and\u00a0HF 824, Constitutional Amendment bills \u201cproviding for the right of the people to acquire, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65030,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65028\/revisions\/65030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}