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  2. Switchblade - Wikipedia

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    A folding switchblade. A switchblade (also known as switch knife, automatic knife, pushbutton knife, ejector knife, flick knife, gravity knife, flick blade, or spring knife) is a pocketknife with a sliding or pivoting blade contained in the handle which is extended automatically by a spring when a button, lever, or switch on the handle or bolster is activated.

  3. Assisted-opening knife - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, the Offensive Weapons Act prohibiting automatic flick knives was amended to prohibit: “(a)any knife which has a blade which opens automatically—(i)from the closed position to the fully opened position, or (ii)from a partially opened position to the fully opened position, by manual pressure applied to a button, spring or other device in or attached to the knife, and which is ...

  4. Knife legislation - Wikipedia

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    Knife legislation. Knife legislation is defined as the body of statutory law or case law promulgated or enacted by a government or other governing jurisdiction that prohibits, criminalizes, or restricts the otherwise legal manufacture, importation, sale, transfer, possession, transport, or use of knives. [1]

  5. Gravity knife - Wikipedia

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    Gravity knife. A gravity knife is a knife with a blade contained in its handle, and that opens its blade through the force of gravity. [1] This mechanism of opening is fundamentally different from the switchblade, which extends its spring-propelled blade automatically upon the push of a button, switch, or fulcrum lever. [1]

  6. Sliding knife - Wikipedia

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    An automatic OTF knife blade travels within an internal track or channel in the same manner as a manual slider or gravity knife, but the automatic main spring drive and button mechanism enclosed within the knife requires a switchblade handle to be thicker or longer than a similar size gravity or sliding knife. The term "Slider" is usually not ...

  7. Ballistic knife - Wikipedia

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    Ballistic knife. A ballistic knife is a knife with a detachable blade that can be ejected to a distance of several meters / yards by pressing a trigger or operating a lever or switch on the handle. [1][2] Spring-powered ballistic knives first appeared in books and press reports on Soviet and Eastern Bloc armed forces in the late 1970s.

  8. Federal Assault Weapons Ban - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, popularly known as the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB or FAWB), was a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms ...

  9. Butterfly knife - Wikipedia

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    Automatic (switchblade) knives and gravity knives are prohibited, as carrying a concealed double-edged knife. In Indiana, it is legal to own and carry a butterfly knife both concealed and open. [28] In Kentucky, the balisong is legal for concealed and open carrying anywhere one is not otherwise prohibited from carrying a concealed deadly weapon ...

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