All posts tagged "Doug Ritter"
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New PA Law Repeals Longstanding Switchblade Ban
After ten years of related work in the Keystone State, the Knife Rights-backed Pennsylvania Switchblade Ban Repeal has been signed into law by governor Tom...
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PSA: Last Day to Donate to Knife Rights’ 2022 Ultimate Steel Fundraiser
Today is your last chance to get in on the Knife Rights 2022 Ultimate Steel fundraiser, an annual extravaganza that helps Knife Rights’ ongoing efforts...
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Knife Rights Starts 2019 with Montana Switchblade Ban Repeal Bill
Knife Rights’ Montana Switchblade Ban Repeal and Knife Law Preemption Bill (HB 115) has been overwhelmingly passed in the state House of Representatives. 99 out...
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New Knife Bills Introduced in Michigan and Virginia
Two more pieces of knife-centric legislation are working their way through the political system this month. Michigan sees its first possible advance in knife law...
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Michigan Governor Signs Switchblade Ban Repeal into Law
In yet another victory for the knife rights movement, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed the Knife Rights’ Switchblade Ban Repeal (SB 245) yesterday. The bill...
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New York and Michigan Knife Law Reform a Signature Away
It’s been less than two weeks since Governor Greg Abbott signed knife law reform legislation in Texas and Knife Rights hopes New York Governor Andrew...
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Knife Rights’ Texas Knife Law Reform Bill Signed by Governor
Earlier in June, we learned that Bowie, Texas’ big Bowie was officially crowned the World’s Largest Bowie Knife by the Guinness Book of World Records....
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Knife Rights and AKTI Competing Federal Bills on Collision Course
In early January, Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs introduced legislation authored by Knife Rights called the Knife Owners’ Protection Act of 2017 (KOPA), (H.R. 84), a...
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Knife Rights Ultimate Steel Mega Lottery Funds Knife Law Reform
Knife Rights takes action on behalf of American knife users to unravel a patchwork of senseless and archaic knife laws at the local, state, and federal level. To raise funds,...
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Colorado Governor Signs Switchblade Ban Repeal
Knife Rights helped to bring about another victory yesterday as Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed a bill repealing Colorado’s total switchblade and gravity knife ban....
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Knife Rights’ Bill to Repeal Federal Switchblade Act of 1958 Introduced in Congress
On the heels of New York Governor Cuomo’s Veto of a bill that would have ended the arrest of people carrying pocket knives in New York...
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New York City Arrests to Continue: Governor Cuomo Vetoes Knife Reform Bill
In an eleventh-hour decision, yesterday New York Governor Andrew Cuomo vetoed the Gravity Knife and Switchblade Reform Bill. The Bill clarified the definition of a...
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Ultimate Steel Knives Fuel the Fight for our Knife Rights
“We don’t take no for an answer,” says Doug Ritter, Chairman of Knife Rights. The stubbornness of its leader has driven Knife Rights to help rewrite knife legislation across...
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7 Best States for Knife People to Live In
What are the States that afford the greatest liberty and freedom to carry a blade in America? We wanted to find out. But tracking down up to...
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“Carrying a knife is disgraceful and it’s cowardly,” UK Top Cop Says
On the heels of the February murder of a 19-year-old; Michael Manley, Chief Superintendent for Nottinghamshire Police is urging young men to turn in their...
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Grant Hawk Passes Away at 82
Hawk Knives delivered deeply sad news to the knife world yesterday: Grant Hawk, one of the most innovative, boundary-pushing knife makers of the 20th century, passed away earlier this...
Justin Lundquist Turns Feist Folder into Custom Fixed Blade
Justin Lundquist is giving fans of the Feist something new to fiend for with the Feist Fixed Blade. These custom pieces present the well-known design in an entirely new...
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Nolichucky Jack is the Latest Traditional from RoseCraft Blades
The traditional blades just keep coming over there at RoseCraft. Company GM and designer Andy Armstrong dropped another historically-minded jack knife, called the Nolichucky Jack, which sold through its...
Boker Turns Eye to Trapper Pattern for Next Traditional Tribute
Boker looks like it will continue to offer modern tributes to traditional knife designs this year. They’ve already lavished plenty of attention on the Barlow, and now the Trapper...
Civivi Elementum Makes Leap into Utility Knife Genre
Civivi just revealed a fresh variant of their evergreen Elementum model; no surprise there. What is surprising is just what form this latest version takes: it melds the Elementum...
Spyderco Surprises with One Day Only Sale
Presented by: KnivesShipFree It’s April 15th which, here in the U.S., means it is the dreaded Tax Day, deadline for filing our annual taxes. But this year Spyderco is...
CRKT Celebrates 30th Anniversary with New Ross Kommer Fixed Blade
CRKT has just unveiled a new, US-made fixed blade to celebrate thirty years in the knife business. This is the Soldotna, an all-purpose outdoors blade designed by longtime CRKT...
