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StuartJ:
So what did this do?

bennysdad:
Define the term knife for certain provisions of the criminal code.

Approved by the Governor on May 10, 2017

bill details below:
http://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=31575

StuartJ:
If I could understand what that was saying I wouldn't have asked. Laws should be written in English so they're understood, not in lawyer so no one else can understand them.

bennysdad:
They probably do that so that the courts can interpret them and make a ruling on the law. It should be understandably written for a lay person, but it is not.

depserv:
The words dagger, dirk, and stiletto are commonly used interchangeably to mean more or less the same thing.  I think the definitions should be sharpened up a little (excuse the pun) but no one seems interested in doing that.  I tried years ago when I was writing for knife and gun magazines, but it didn't catch on.  So what point is there in listing all of them?  How about poignards?  Or machetes?  And is a scramasax legal since it wasn't listed?  If not, then why list those others?

It looks to me like a typical tool box has at least a few concealed knives in it, in the form of screwdrivers, and in fact screwdrivers are commonly used as weapons (I would classify them as a stiletto since a stiletto traditionally does not necessarily have a cutting edge).  By the definition given a carpenter hammer is a knife too.  So are we carrying concealed weapons if we have a tool box in our car?  I know guys who just throw tools on the floor of their car; are they illegally carrying weapons? 

This whole thing is all nonsense.  It makes more sense to say that if something capable of inflicting injury is used as a weapon, even in making a threat, it's a weapon.  But the law says citizens have a right to have weapons, so unless and until something is used in an illegal manner, it's ok for us to have it.

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