ALBANY -- New York’s Legislature on Wednesday determined many pocket folding knives available in home renovation and sporting goods stores and “gravity knives” that prompted 60,000 arrests in 10 years ...

A knife is not simply a cutting instrument. There are dozens of types of knives, from Arkansas toothpicks to X-Actos. Keeping track of them all and their legality is not easy since knives are ...

DENVER (AP) — The switchblade knives wielded six decades ago by the fictional Jets and Sharks street gangs in the legendary Broadway musical “West Side Story” and in Hollywood films spooked lawmakers ...

Two Albany lawmakers want to flip the script on switchblades. Assemblyman Dan Quart and state Sen. Robert Jackson are pushing to have “gravity knives” decriminalized in a bill introduced Tuesday.

DENVER — The switchblade knives wielded six decades ago by the fictional Jets and Sharks street gangs in the legendary Broadway musical “West Side Story” and in Hollywood films spooked lawmakers ...

Black and Latino men had often been charged under New York’s unusual ban on the knives, which are opened with a flick of the wrist. By Jesse McKinley Over the past 60 years, tens of thousands of black ...

People have been trying to sell Steven Skinner switchblade knives for a long time, and until recently, he turned them down. Until recently, in fact, it would have been illegal for him to accept their ...

DENVER – The switchblade knives wielded six decades ago by the fictional Jets and Sharks street gangs in the legendary Broadway musical “West Side Story” and in Hollywood films spooked lawmakers ...