Bill seeks to let one-armed people use switchblades

[teacherone]

A local lawmaker has proposed a bill to allow one-armed people to have and carry switchblade knives.

State Rep. Sheryl Briggs, D-Mexico, said Friday that she's asking Maine to comply with a federal law that allows individuals with one arm to own or carry any switchblade knife with a blade of 3 inches or less.

“Obviously, people with just one arm cannot open anything but that type of a blade, that type of a knife,” she said. “So all we're asking is for the people with one arm to be exempt.”

A switchblade knife has a blade that opens automatically by hand pressure or opens, falls or is ejected into position.

Briggs said one-armed Mexico lawyer Paul Dumas Jr. asked her to propose the legislation.

“It's a spinoff currently of federal law,” Dumas said on Friday afternoon. “If I had a spring-assisted knife and I was in federal jurisdiction, I wouldn't be breaking the law, but under Maine law I would be.”

Maine's law states that anyone caught with a switchblade knife or who makes, displays, offers, sells, lends, gives away or buys such knives, is guilty of trafficking in dangerous knives. It is a misdemeanor crime.

In a March 2010 letter to Briggs, Dumas wrote, “This statute utterly fails to accommodate persons who cannot use two hands to open a knife.”

http://www.sunjournal.com/river-valley/story/978172

[Danke]

Finally!

[Dr.3D]

Shouldn't be illegal for anybody to have and carry one of them anyway.

[aravoth]

whoa... I didn't know it was illegal for me to have a switchblade!

Wonder how much I can get for it...

[AGRP]

What about the one foot people?

[Vessol]

But what if the person with the switchblade goes on a crime spree!?

[Ninja Homer]

But people who have already lost an arm should be less trusted to safely handle a switchblade.

[Stary Hickory]

Yes!! Now all I have to do is cut my fucking arm off and I can use a switcblade!

[Danke]

But what if the person with the switchblade goes on a crime spree!?

A one-armed bandit?

[sailingaway]

What if you carry something in one arm. Then can you have one?

[Vessol]

Yes!! Now all I have to do is cut my fucking arm off and I can use a switcblade!

Just buy a sword. Swords will cut your fucking throat wide open!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_RpbaUU7NI

[xd9fan]

Finally!

LOL!!! OH $hit

really.... Govt is here for this???????

[oyarde]

Shouldn't be illegal for anybody to have and carry one of them anyway.

Correct

[oyarde]

Just buy a sword. Swords will cut your fucking throat wide open!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_RpbaUU7NI

Stary Hickory needs one of those classy wooden canes with a sword inside ...

[Philhelm]

whoa... I didn't know it was illegal for me to have a switchblade!

Wonder how much I can get for it...

Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Please reference statute 1,391,582,092, mundane.

[oyarde]

ignorance of the law is no excuse. Please reference statute 1,391,582,092, mundane.

lol .

[1000-points-of-fright]

State Rep. Sheryl Briggs, D-Mexico,

For a minute I thought I had missed some major news until I figured out the Mexico in question is a town in Maine.

[oyarde]

For a minute I thought I had missed some major news until I figured out the Mexico in question is a town in Maine.

How did they come up with that in Maine , i wonder ?

[1000-points-of-fright]

How did they come up with that in Maine , i wonder ?

Some of the towns in her district.... Carthage, Mexico and Peru. Maine is fucked up.

[oyarde]

Some of the towns in her district.... Carthage, Mexico and Peru. Maine is fucked up.

There is a town in Southern Indiana , named after the capital of Peru . It was picked off the globe by elementary kids .

[oyarde]

When they went to incorporate , they were not allowed to used what the town had previously called itself because the post office was already delivering mail to two other towns by that name . Hence , Cuzco , Indiana .

[1000-points-of-fright]

There is a town in Southern Indiana , named after the capital of Peru . It was picked off the globe by elementary kids .


There's a Lima OH too. Except it's pronounced Lyma.

[oyarde]

There's a Lima OH too. Except it's pronounced Lyma.

i have driven through Lima , Ohio , Baghdad, Kentucky , Moscow Indiana .....

[amy31416]

i have driven through Lima , Ohio , Baghdad, Kentucky , Moscow Indiana .....

Think there's also a Milan, OH. (They pronounce it MY lan.) There's a Versailles, PA. (Pronounced Versales.)

:p

[oyarde]

Think there's also a Milan, OH. (They pronounce it MY lan.) There's a Versailles, PA. (Pronounced Versales.)

:p Milan and Versailles, Indiana as well. The movie Hoosiers is about the Milan basketball Team .

[oyarde]

I have been through Horse Cave Kentucky , did not see any horses at the Cave :)

[oyarde]

Of course , then there is Bear Wallow Ky.

[pcosmar]

Some of the towns in her district.... Carthage, Mexico and Peru. Maine is fucked up.

Both "Hell" and "Paradise" in Michigan.
Fortunately I am a long way from Hell. Close to Paradise.

;) :)

[oyarde]

Yes I have seen "Hell" , Michigan and drank Kulm Hell beer in Germany .

[Danke]

Jordan, MN

Wyoming, MN

[oyarde]

Jordan, MN

Wyoming, MN

Indiana , Pennsylvania

[amy31416]

Oh yeah...and Intercourse, PA. Blue Ball, PA.

Also drove by Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky once. That made me do a double-take.

[oyarde]

Oh yeah...and Intercourse, PA. Blue Ball, PA.

Also drove by Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky once. That made me do a double-take.

Outside Roselawn Indiana , there used to be a place called Naked City .

[oyarde]

Then there is Bullitt County Kentucky , I always wondered if it was just a mispelled "Bullet".

[oyarde]

And this was just six states off the top of our heads . Mi , MN , IN , OH , Pa & Ky .

[oyarde]

Switzerland County , Indiana .

[oyarde]

Gnaw Bone , Indiana . Not sure if they still make it , but the Indianapolis Brewing Company used to have a Gnaw Bone Pale Ale ..

[libertybrewcity]

who's bill?

[Anti Federalist]

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

[Anti Federalist]

Sweden Norway and Denmark in Maine as well.

[oyarde]

who's bill?

A Sheryl Briggs , State Rep , Maine .

[oyarde]

Currently it is a misdemeanor crime in Maine , trafficing in dangerous knives , I guess all other knives are not dangerous . Must be something in the water up there...