Ninth Circuit Panel Tosses Hawaii's Ban on Butterfly Knives

[Watchman]

The state of Hawaii’s hostility towards the right to keep and bear arms isn’t just limited to guns. Since 1993 the state has also banned the possession and sale of butterfly knives; making it a misdemeanor to “knowingly.. manufacture, sell, transfer, transport, or possess” a butterfly knife, with no exceptions.

A three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, however, says Hawaii’s law is a violation of the Second Amendment’s protections, and on Monday the panel threw out a lower court decision upholding the ban, remanding the case back to district court for “further proceedings consistent” with the panel’s opinion. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE