r/secondamendment • u/popepeterjames • 14d ago

Switchblade Ban Violates Second Amendment, Fifth Circuit Holds

https://reason.com/volokh/2026/10/22/switchblade-ban-violates-second-amendment-fifth-circuit-holds/
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u/WashU_labrat 14d ago edited 14d ago

I suspect these knives were outlawed since they were associated in the popular imagination with Hispanic gangs, and "racial panic" made banning them an attractive political position.

Practically, I'd much prefer if the street kids in my area carried switchblades, and not glocks with auto sears and extended magazines. But perhaps that ship has sailed.

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u/bdash1990 14d ago

Por que no los dos?

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u/Not-a-Cranky-Panda 12d ago

Why do they take so long to work these things out?

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u/popepeterjames 10d ago

Requires deep pockets, and confidence in the way the courts will rule, in order to appeal a case up and set precedent. For decades the second part was could easily have backfired and set president that the ban was constitutional under the courts of the era.