Boston Set to Restrict Knife Sales
- Posted on September 7, 2011 at 10:59am by
Buck Sexton
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Legally buying a handgun in Boston is already impossible for most citizens, but soon it may become much harder to purchase even a pocketknife in Beantown.
Yes, some Boston politicians believe that if you make it harder to buy something with a sharp edge, there will be fewer stabbings. Apparently, Boston has had 1300 such attacks over the past two years.
The Boston City Council will meet tomorrow to vote on the ordinance, which would require a licensing process for the sale of knives. Boston already dictates the type of knives that can be sold, but this new legislation would allow the state to continuously keeps its hands on anyone who sells everything from Swiss Army Knives to machetes.
It is unclear if sale of chef’s knives, which often have 8-inch-long, razor sharp blades, will be covered by the new regulations, but the impact on fine dining around Beacon Hill could be severe.
Even without this legislation, Boston is far from a 2nd Amendment haven.
Current Massachusetts law bans all sorts of weapons and imposes draconian prison terms for their possession. Many knives such as switchblades are illegal outright. You need a license to carry pepper spray. One could guess this has made the city much safer from rogue female joggers.
For the aspiring ninjas out there, be forewarned: Massachusetts has already banned nunchakus, Kung Fu Sticks, and throwing stars, punishable by no less than two-and-a-half years in prison.
The lengthy sentences under Boston extend to firearms as well. Have a sawed-off shotgun? Or an automatic weapon? You could get life in prison.
Watch the video below, courtesy of MyFoxBoston, and hear the politicians behind the knife bill make their case for regulations that they claim won‘t be ’onerous’:
(h/t Ammoland)




















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Comments (317)
Daniel4
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:20amIt‘s a shame that we can’t ban the pointy-headed idiots in City Hall.
Remember: It’s no fun being stupid unless you can prove it publicly.
City Hall is packed with people having fun (as is the State House).
Report Post »Evileye
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:36amFreedom started near there and so it will apparently end there.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:40amIt’s no problem for me since Boston was on my list to stay away from. They won‘t let local citizens buy a gun and won’t recoginize my carry permit from Oklahoma.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:51amIdiots. What are you going to cut your steak with? Slice bread? I use my butcher knife every day from A-Z. Reminds me of a TV show years ago about a couple’s house covered with a bubble and gas was fed into it. The couple couldn’t get out without something sharp to cut the heavy covering. They searched the house and someone had taken all the knives, scissors and sharp objects.
MORAL: “Take away knives, scissors and guns and only criminals will have knives, scissors & guns.”
Report Post »FNTM
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 12:22pmI have a hunting knife exactly like the one pictured at the top of this article. My wife has several kitchen knives that put mine to shame for strength and sharpness. Just how do these fools think they are going ban ‘sharp things’? God save us from fools!
Report Post »AlmostaCowboy
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 12:58pm@bluebonnet – You know, those giant over-sized round-ended (not “pointed) steak knives they have a Golden Corral!
Report Post »Q: What a about a wood chisel? Can one still purchase a wood chisel in Boston. Those can be razor sharp. What about an awl?
J.C. McGlynn
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 1:13pmWhat the politicians forget is criminals in prison learn how to make knives, maybe crudely but still a knife.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 1:16pmDaniel, if you ban “pointy-headed idiots in City Hall”, then City Hall will be full of them. When they banned drugs we got more of them. When they banned alcohol we were beseiged with drunkards. When they declared war on poverty we got more poor people. Anything the Govt bans flourishes. A govt ban is fertilizer for whatever is banned.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 1:17pmWhen will they make liberalism and stupidity illegal?
Report Post »chazman
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 1:21pm… How stupid can a liberal marxist get? I think the sky is the limit on that one!
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 1:54pmYou don’t need a knife to kill a person. Cain killed his brother Abel with a stick.
Banning a tool called a knife is silly.
Report Post »Could a car be a weapon? Lets ban cars!
oneshiner
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 2:20pm@almostacowboy: Yep, wood chisel’s would be a good alternative. But why not be like the guys who brought down the planes on 9/11. Just use box cutters. Oops, grocery stores will have to use their fingernails to open all the boxes in Boston. btw, all my steak knives have pointy tips.
Report Post »gunslingerpatriot
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 2:23pm@Whitefang-Actully it was the jawbone of a donkey, or the proud symbol of todays american chicken party.
Report Post »arbky
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 2:35pmNow THAT would be a productive ban!
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 3:17pmGenesis 4:8 says Cain slew his brother or assaulted him so that he died. This is the first murder in human history and the weapon used is not actually stated.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 3:32pm@WhiteFang
It was obvious Cain used a .357 Sig…
Report Post »chfields62
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 3:45pmAccording to them, we would have to ban everything, because there is nothing that can’t be used as a weapon. They are all insane………..
Report Post »LarryOfAz
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 3:47pm@GUNSLINGERPATRIOT, not to put too fine a point on it, the donkey jawbone was Samson. Whitefang first said it was a stick, but then in a second post referenced the actual chapter/verse and correctly and pointed out that the actual weapon is not said. So, I guess it could have been a .357 Sig.
Report Post »KATO CAT
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 3:47pmawsome–can i quote you
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 4:00pmWhen will these idiots realize that laws do stop criminals (that’s why they are called criminals) Laws only restrict the lawful and the lawful aren’t the issue.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 5:32pmPublic Hangings from a gallows will deter crime…NOT LESS WEAPONS!!
Report Post »LET”S Start with politicians…. MAYBE it will deter more politicians!!!
TXPilot
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 5:56pmI guess, if I ever find myself being robbed on the streets of Boston, I will just defend myself against the thugs with a very sharp criticism…..or maybe a pointed remark?
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 7:06pmSorry Tx Pilot, they’ll ban that too. Pretty soon only criminals will have guns and anything else that’s pointed (just looked down and I’m armed and pointed, ha) so all is not lost.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 7:29pmCommies….They don’t have legal standing to ban what they ban…The constitution protects these rights even from states and city. They already ruled against DC AND Chicago bans…The problem is, all those English sympathizers in the revolutionary war, the ones who did nothing while the patriots fought, were allowed to stay, and now they have destroyed everything.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 7:32pmfkng insanity….
Report Post »avenger
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 7:57pmHey libs..more people die from obesity than knives.Ban food sales !
Report Post »S G Applebee
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 10:42pmMore lost history:
The “right of the people to keep and bear arms” didn’t just apply to GUNS.
Report Post »M 4 Colt
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 5:02amBeing obtuse must be a way of life for progressives on the left, i am at a complete lost for words for how stupid this is, if they think for one minute that this is going to stop crime they are beyond being able to be reasoned with.
I am only able to hold a back and forth debate and reason with people who have some level of intelligence, this proves beyond a reasonable doubt that that they don’t even have basic common sense so there is no way to deal with people like this other then KEEP THEM OUT OF OFFICE AT ALL COST !!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 7:18amwho cares. you only need to carry your gun. second amendment says it is ok to do so.
Report Post »jtdot
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 8:27amChildren buying knives and using them on their classmates is the same as borrowing dads gun and taking it to school. Over-legislature is not the answer though; it’s the parents responsiblity to raise the kids, not Congress’. This regime only puts out crap anyway. See where he put his feet up on the Resolute desk? Grrrr…
Report Post »Bonnieblue2A
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:19amI predict a surge in knife sales in Boston in the immediate future. Where is RINO Scott Brown on this issue?
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:41amAfter the knives are outlawed the surrounding cities will get rich selling to Bostonians.
Report Post »Red on the Head
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 5:58pmThey’ll have “Black Market Blades” on every corner.
Report Post »WeeDontNeedNoSteenkingBadges
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 7:05pmOkay, so “ban” knives … and only the bad guys will have knives (yep, bad guys ignore your laws … duh!).
I seem to remember that not working out so well with guns. Can anyone say “3 dead at iHop”? How about “West Virginia shooter & 5 dead”? Or “50 shots in NYC from just 1 gunman”?
Didn’t anyone shoot back to stop them? Oh, yeah … all were disarmed by lefty laws …
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:18amDon‘t forget to add 2X4’s and rope to that list.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:46amAnd baseball bats, crowbars, cars, trucks, vans, zip ties, forks, cooking and eating utensils, pencils, fishing line, hammers, nail guns, plastic bags, cast iron skillets………
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:47amThese city fathers have forgot their history – Proabition. You only benefit other communities and bootleggers. Fifty years ago in Texas I lived in a dry county. My best friends parents bought beer and Jim Beam fron a wet countie and sold to the locals. A $1.50 six pack cost $2.50 and my buddies parents got rich.
Report Post »Docrow
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:57amSo will the Red Sox’s move out of town when they come after the bats? and those scary cleats…
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 12:48pmRight, just cross the state line and get what you want. I have a letter opener that is sharper than most of my knives, would they take that away? Also, I’ve carried a pen knife on my keys for most of my life, except when the airlines considered it a weapon, kinda like my comb that had lifters set in plastic on the end and broke off often while doing my hair, so it was a very lethal weapon (at least in Peru) after going through 5-6 airports on trip with this comb. Dam, didn’t stab anyone either! (didn’t want to break my comb.) Carry a sharp pencil, the best weapon in a pinch.
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 1:45pmAlso shovels, claw hammers,garden tools, power saws
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 4:57pmAnd cocaine, drugs, cigarettes. Lets outlaw those along with alcohol and bug spray!
Oh boy, this is getting ridiculous..
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 1:33am@turkey13
Report Post »Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:47am
These city fathers have forgot their history – Proabition. You only benefit other communities and bootleggers. Fifty years ago in Texas I lived in a dry county. My best friends parents bought beer and Jim Beam fron a wet countie and sold to the locals. A $1.50 six pack cost $2.50 and my buddies parents got rich
****
Gee, he may become the parent of a President, Attorney General, and US Senator!
And all he has to do is follow the example of the MA Clan who did it all last century.
Mil Mom
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 1:41amQuestion, I know that logging has long been outlawed in their state, but doesn’t anybody there heat with a wood stove? Not even in a hunting cabin? (Sorry, I forgot, they banned hunting sling shots too! ) What do they do when storms cause downed limbs and trees? If they ban anything that might be used as a weapon, that would be all axes, right? (No school better do a re-enactment of Geo. Washington’s life. If pictures of guns get kids expelled, imagine what toy hatchets would do!)
Report Post »woodyl1011fl
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:18amThis is one of the Marxist socialist democrat party republics of New England anybody surprised at this lunacy? Said many times democrats are devoid of rean and are completely irrational. The American Patriots of 1776 would be in open revolt against these home grown totalitarians. How far we have fallen! Harvard used to stand for honor, righteousness, glorifying almighty God but now they glorify His enemy!
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:16amIf they want to make the city really safe so no one ever gets hurt
Report Post »or killed just regulate everyone out of the city.
jakartaman
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:15amFolks you have to realize this is Boston, Massachusetts.
Report Post »It is on a par with Southern Kalifona when it comes to liberal lunacy.
You see the government is a whole lot smarter than you.
The government needs to tell you what to do and when to do it.
Massachusetts is the land of John Kerry & Barney Frank.
When you look up Nanny State in the dictionary – you find Taxachusetts.
Of course it could not be that all the freebies have created an environment of entitlements – right Mumbles Menino
John Morton
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:15amChainsaws are still legal in Beantown, right???
OK, I’m all cool with that…
Report Post »Seabee79
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:38amHow about a home made Potato canon? can I rob you with one of those
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:53am@Seabee79
Yes, but I defend myself if I put a billard ball in mine.
Report Post »Happy Killmore
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 12:37pmCareful with the potato gun. I wanted to make one a few years back but a friend stopped me and pointed out it’s considered a “destructive device” by the BATFE and has the same penalty as a sawed off shotgun if caught with it.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 1:47am@Seabee79
Report Post »Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:38am
How about a home made Potato canon? can I rob you with one of those
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Might get away with it, but don’t try a Water Rifle, or bucket of water or we’ll have to ask Adhminijad to send in the Iranian Guard to deal with you!
Principlex
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:14amThis is one thing: Fear of the government of the people. It is not to protect people and their property. To do that, every one ought to own a gun and a bunch of knives.
In China, when a person wants to buy a kitchen knife, the police have to be present to register the “weapon” and they have to sign their life away in order to cut up vegetables. If you don’t think that America is fast becoming a repressive nation, think again.
Report Post »Uechi
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:14amSo I guess everybody will eat with their fingers? Maybe we can use only chop sticks, oh wait they can be used as a weapon, no good. Where does this stupidity end? Banning saws, axes, baseball bats, sharpened metal, sticks, plastic, broken bottles, chisels, drills, gasoline, cars, acids, rocks, lead pipes, socks filled with quarters etcetera. Following their convoluted logic any object that can be used to hurt or kill someone should be banned. Impossible, inane and just plain witless. How do these AHs expect going to prevent people from buying knives out of state, the Knife Police”?
Report Post »Happy Killmore
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 12:41pmA few years back, someone as a joke wrote a paper and tried to ban dihydrogen oxide because of how dangerous it is and a city council somewhere almost voted to do it until it was finally pointed out that is “H2O”.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 3:34pm@happy,
Water is dangerous….. @ 12,000 PSI.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 2:01amre : Where does this stupidity end? Banning saws, axes, baseball bats, sharpened metal, sticks, plastic, broken bottles, chisels, drills, gasoline, cars, acids, rocks, lead pipes, socks filled with quarters etcetera. Following their convoluted logic any object that can be used to hurt or kill someone should be banned. Impossible, inane and just plain witless.
Report Post »***
You‘ve just given the definition from Webster’s of Government! When they have us all setting in Caves, rubbing sticks together hoping to make sparks to get warm because everything used to make a house, furnace, automobile, or anything else could be used as weapons, then they’ll come along with their weapons and enslave the masses to cook their meals, drive their cars (The elite will always find a way.) wash their clothes, clean their homes, etc. BECAUSE LAWS AND BANS ONLY AFFECT THE MASSES! THOSE GOVERNED ARE ALWAYS EXEMPT! The problem, once they have the luxuries, they’ll either not know how to care for them, or it’ll be beneath them! Be ready for TSA style searches each day on the way back to the cave!
olddog
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:14amBoston politicians may as well just Ban Themselves because anything with a pointed edge is a weapon, just like their pointed heads…. Always, Always with liberals common sence is missing..
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:14amWe need ROCK CONTROL LAWS, TOO!!
People could use rocks as weapons.
Oh, and prohibit everything BUT mass transit. That will stop people from running over other people.
Oh, we could just lock everyone away in prison (for their own safety).
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 7:13pmHey, watch the riots on TV, they were actually throwing rocks. That’s how they intend to control us.
Report Post »Take away any weapons for self protection is their hope & change, lol. Then we’ll only have rocks to protect and defend ourselves. What a crock~ Where do these idiots come from? It’s been proven that when they outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns and we have nothing for defense of family.
cemerius
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:14amNext stop, outlawing Baseball bats…… Imagine that little league will be over then!
Report Post »Timbotim
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:36amThey’ve already done away with Bat Day at baseball parks nationwide. I used to go every year to get a sweet bat. Then they reduced it to those stupid foot-longers, but then someone must have gotten bopped on the head (seriously, how much damage could one of those 3oz models do?) and now kids get…plushies. Sheesh
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:12amSooooo glad I live in Colorado! We got guns, knives, and the highground. {:
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:19amSound like a great place to be. On High ground !! As long as their voters wanted this, they deserve what ever they get.
Report Post »rot_soldier
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:27amFor now. From what I’ve heard, the liberals from California have moved to Colorado and now pushing thier way of thinking into your political and legal system. It won’t be long before they start banning stuff there, too. Heck, didn’t they at one point ban the collection of rain water?
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:31amThat reminds me of a Disclaimer that I give to all Liberals before beginning a debate with them. I say, “I occupy the Moral high ground, the Logical high ground, the Scientific high ground and the Historical high ground. Now, are you sure you want to try to come up this hill?” Since all Liberals are poor listeners, they usually still do. Always to their peril.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 2:15pm@Rot Soldier: Yep, Co.had signs saying to stop Californiacating Colorado during the downturn in early 80″s shutdown of Shale Oil. They moved into Colo. and bought homes 50cents on the dollar and immediately started telling everyone “how they did it in Calif.” That was when we began to turn from a RED state into blue. With Obama in office, all of a sudden they see the light at the end of the tunnel and realize we’re getting skrewed by the liberal stupidity. Beginning to see purple.
Report Post »robstoddard
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:11amSticks and stones may break my bones
Report Post »So soon Massachusetts will ban them.
13th Imam
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:10amThe American Revolution couldn’t start in Mass now. Masshole Lawyers have legislated self protection right out of the citizens hands. Paul Revere would have to take a Chevy Volt but wont have enough charge to make his warning rounds.And the Minutemen will have to use sticks.
Report Post »roadhog
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:10amBan all the Pointed Heads at Harvard. Liberalism is a mental Disorder.
Report Post »Bonnieblue2A
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:21amThey are not the sharpest knives in the drawer if Obama and his Harvard filled cabinet are any indication.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:09amWhat’s next? Baseball bats?
Report Post »integrican
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 7:04pmYeeeeUP!
Report Post »Then, sharp thoughts and even pictures of sharp pointy things
Homeschoolmama
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 1:24amDid anyone notice that with the riots in Great Britain the sales of baseball bats increased 1800%?
Report Post »Uncurable wound
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:08amCome and take it..COWARDS!
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:08amNo problem. For the most part, I’m a Blunt-Force-Trauma user myself.
Report Post »Bonnieblue2A
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:08amHow to win a knife fight (legislatively speaking):
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwOhAEoVz-E&feature=player_embedded#!
smithclar3nc3
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:06amWTF
Report Post »What’s next bats,pipes,any objects that can be sharpened……..YOU CAN’T REGULATE THE CITY AND MAKE IT SAFE.
SREGN
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:06amNext will be spoons. Got a clue for you, Boston, it‘s not the weapon that’s the problem, it’s the wielder.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:12amWe have to keep those flash mobs safe from the citizenry. Only criminals and cops get to defend themselves.
Report Post »Infidel49
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:05amYou might as well ban pens and pencils. Get caught with a sharp stick and it is prison for you. Someone has to stop these out of control control freaks. Issue our cops and military slingshots. Liberalism is a mental disorder for sure.
Report Post »Bonnieblue2A
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:04amThis is the same way the blade bans started in Great Britain. Wake up America you are being disarmed!
http://kniferights.org/
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:10amA well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Report Post »Any law abiding citizen arrested for a gun or knife in boston need only appeal the case. An appeal is guaranteed and so is a win.
JesusFreak95
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:02amCome on folks, this is just nuts. Am I going to be allowed to use a steak knife in a Boston resturaunt?
Report Post »IARifleman
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:16amHope you have a license.
Report Post »Jim in NJ
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 11:24amYes, you’ll be able to use a steak knife…after you have taken the requisite safety courses, applied for the permits, and had a thorough backround check done to make sure you actually eat steak.
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