Why do laws that restore rights take so long to come into effect, but laws that restrict rights, quite often go into effect immediately?<\/p>\n
Virginia Switchblade Ban Repeal Bill Signed!<\/a><\/p>\n Knife Rights\u2019 Virginia Switchblade Ban Repeal Bill,\u00a0SB 758<\/a>, that passed with broad bipartisan support, has been signed into law by Governor Glenn Youngkin. We sincerely appreciate Gov. Youngkin signing this bill after nearly 5 years of effort to repeal the ban.<\/strong><\/p>\n NOTE: Repeal does not become effective until July 1st. Until that date, possession of automatic knives remains illegal in Virginia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n NOTE: The concealed carry knife bans in Virginia, including of switchblade (automatic) knives, will still remain in effect:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cIf any person carries about his person, hidden from common observation, (i) any dirk, bowie knife, switchblade knife, ballistic knife, machete, razor, \u2026 or (v) any weapon of like kind as those enumerated in this subsection\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Knife Rights will never stop until all archaic knife restrictions in Virginia are repealed.<\/strong><\/p>\n Our sincere thanks and congratulations to sponsor Senator Todd Pillion for his efforts that have resulted in the repeal of Virginia\u2019s longstanding irrational switchblade ban.<\/p>\n With the repeal in Virginia, only five states remain with a complete ban on civilian possession of switchblade (automatic) knives. Knife Rights has led the effort to repeal switchblade bans or restrictions in 19 states, starting with New Hampshire in 2010. Repeals have since been enacted in Alaska, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin and now in Virginia.<\/p>\n Altogether, Knife Rights\u2019 efforts have resulted in 36 bills enacted repealing knife bans in 25 states and over 150 cities and towns since 2010.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why do laws that restore rights take so long to come into effect, but laws that restrict rights, quite often go into effect immediately? Virginia Switchblade Ban Repeal Bill Signed! Knife Rights\u2019 Virginia Switchblade Ban Repeal Bill,\u00a0SB 758, that passed with broad bipartisan support, has been signed into law by Governor Glenn Youngkin. We sincerely … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78660","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=78660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78661,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78660\/revisions\/78661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}