Oh, come now. On what grounds, other than "We be assholes, yes we be"?
Tangentially-related: When we were in DC a couple of weeks ago, and went on our tour, the first non-memorial stop was the National Archives. While in line for the metal detectors (!) I realized that I had stuck my CRKT M4-02S in my pocket that day...like I do every fucking day. Hilarity, of course, ensued. (Basically, my wife, who wasn't walking very well anyway, decided she'd sit outside with it. And as she walked back down the line, she jokingly said, "Knives, please -- anybody got a knife?" As it turned out, HALF OUR GROUP were carrying knives...and one was so loaded up with edged weapons that he took the knives and sat outside instead, so Sally got to take the tour after all. She told me this when she came in, a little bit shocked that there were so many,* and I said, "Well, Hoosiers, what do you expect?"
It occured to me later that I didn't actually know if I was violating DC knife laws or not.** And frankly, I didn't care. I'm a free citizen of the United States, or at least I used to be. Arrest me for carrying a tool, tools. And be glad I wasn't carrying a gun...which is also a tool, for removing goblins and such.
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* As I have implied before, the wife is a liberal Obama voter who can't even bear the sight of guns. Funny story. I told her a long time ago that she probably should avoid looking under my side of the bed, that I would be happy to do it for her any time she needed to. So naturally, she was looking for a container of seasonal clothes that she normally keeps under her side of the bed, didn't find it, and came around on my side to see if it had slid over there. She lifted the bed skirt, and rather than seeing an errant container of clothing, saw my shotgun sitting there in all its glory. She came out in the living room and said, "um, now I know why you told me not to look under your side of the bed." I LOL'ed. She did not think it was funny. I said, "You married me with full knowledge that I had guns."
** Oh yeah, I was. 3.25" blade > 3" max blade requirement, plus the CRKT has a spring assist. The implication that you can carry such a knife for self-defense seems weak -- any prosecutor worth his salt could undoubtedly make the case that, deep down inside, you planned to rob a convenience store or mug some poor unsuspecting tourist with it.
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