Steve Shackleford

Officials of the American Knife & Tool Institute (AKTI) stated they are working to add Louisiana to the growing list of states that have changed statutes to more clearly define what is NOT an illegal knife and protect the rights of knife owners. Louisiana residents need to encourage their legislators to support SB 78, an AKTI release noted.

    For more info click http://www.akti.org/news/louisiana-knife-bill-will-provide-clear-definition-of-switchblades

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According to Knife Rights, Georgia Knife Preemption Bill SB432 passed out of the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee yesterday on a 6-2 vote. Your emails and calls make an impact!

     Successful passage of SB432 would not only ensure Georgia residents carrying a knife are treated fairly wherever they travel in Georgia, but all those traveling to the BLADE Show though towns and cities with knife laws more restrictive that Georgia’s otherwise decent knife laws, would be safe from violation.

    Now the bill moves to the House Rules Committee today or Thursday to be scheduled for a vote of the full House. You can continue to help by calling or emailing the members of the House Rules Committee and request they schedule SB432 for a vote. It is VERY IMPORTANT to remember to be very RESPECTFUL & POLITE when making your request.  Knife Rights has included a succinct sample message below. Committee members a lot of bills to consider, so all you need to do is to politely let them know that this bill has support from an involved constituency.     

    If you are a Georgia resident it is best that you call the committee members below. If you can’t call, at least email.     

    If you are a BLADE Show attendee from outside of Georgia, please email ALL of the committee members (listed below) and ask them to vote YES on SB432.  

    Use Email SUBJECT: Please Schedule SB432  for a Vote

    Suggested email:  

Dear Representative [insert name],

    As a knife owner, collector and enthusiast, I attend the BLADE Show in Atlanta which generates millions of dollars for the Georgia economy. SB432 would ensure that when I visit Georgia, the knife laws will be consistent statewide. It will also ensure that Georgia residents will know that their pocketknife is legal throughout the entire state.

    Please schedule SB432 for a vote as promptly as you can.

    Thank you for your time and consideration.

    [your signature] 

    If you call, here is what you might say to the Representative’s secretary:

    Hello my name is xxxxxx xxxxxxx and I am calling to ask Representative [insert name] to please schedule SB432 for a vote as soon as possible. This bill is important to me because I attend the BLADE show in Atlanta and would like to see the knife laws across Georgia be consistent. Thank you for taking my message.

Rich Golick:  404-656-5943 – [email protected] 

Tommy Benton: 404-656-0213 – [email protected] 

David Casa: 404-656-0254 – [email protected] 

Mickey Channell:  404-656-5103 – [email protected] 

Sharon Cooper: 404-656-5069 – [email protected] 

Katie Dempsey: 404-463-2247 – [email protected] 

Earl Ehrhart: 404-463-2247 – [email protected] 

Gerald Greene: 404-732-2973 – [email protected] 

Bob Hanner: 404-656-7859 –  [email protected] 

Bill Hembree: 404-659-9195 –  [email protected] 

Judy Manning: 404-656-7868 – [email protected]  

Greg Morris: 404-656-5115 – [email protected] 

Butch Parrish: 404-463-2247 – [email protected] 

Allen Peake: 404-656-5025 – [email protected]

Tom Rice: 404-656-5912 – [email protected] 

Jay Roberts: 404-656-7153 – [email protected] 

Ed Setzler: 404-656-0177 – [email protected] 

Donna Sheldon: 404-656-5025 – [email protected] 

Barbara Sims: 404-656-0213 – [email protected]

Lynn Smith: 404-656-7149 – [email protected] 

Ron Stephens: 404-656-5115 – [email protected] 

Tom Weldon: 404-656-0152 – [email protected] 

Wendell Willard: 404-656-5125 – [email protected]  

    It is much, much better to email each member individually, but if you cannot, below are all the email addresses which you can copy and paste into your email:

[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];  [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]   

    CALL or EMAIL TODAY! 

    For more click on www.KnifeRights.org.

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If you travel through Georgia to the BLADE Show (www.bladeshow.com), the Knife Law Preemption bill that will be voted on by the Georgia House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee TODAY needs your help! Richard Rogers won Best Folder at the 2011 BLADE Show for his three-blade sowbelly in rainbow mother-of-pearl.

The Georgia House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee hearing on SB432, a bill that would establish Knife Law Pre-emption in the state, will conclude today, Tuesday, March 20, Knife Rights reported.

    Knife Law Preemption would protect all law-abiding citizens who carry knives from the patchwork of inconsistent knife laws from jurisdiction to jurisdiction while traveling through the state, including those who will be traveling to the BLADE Show (www.bladeshow.com) June 8-10 at the Cobb Galleria Centre outside Atlanta.

    Once again, we need your help to get this bill passed. Your calls and emails made a big impact passing SB432 in the Georgia Senate. Now, please call or email and ask the members of the Committee to vote YES on SB432 when it is before them for consideration today.   

    If you are a Georgia resident it is best that you call ALL the committee members below. If you can’t call, at least email.     

    If you are a BLADE Show attendee from outside of Georgia, please email ALL of the committee members (listed below) and ask them to vote YES on SB432.  

    IMPORTANT: In your email or when you talk to each Representative’s secretary, tell them that that you are a BLADE Show attendee or exhibitor and that the BLADE Show represents MILLIONS of dollars to the Georgia economy. It also represents many hundreds of JOBS in Georgia. All those hotels and restaurants we stay at and eat in during BLADE Show employ many hundreds of people, and SB432 will help support the BLADE Show! You deserve to not have to worry about local knife restrictions when traveling to and attending the BLADE Show, and even a single unjustified and highly publicized arrest could adversely affect BLADE Show attendance!   

    Use Email SUBJECT: Please Vote Yes on SB432 

Ann Purcell – Chairman Dist 159 – [email protected] Phone: 404-656-5139

Willie Talton – Vice Chairman Dist 145 – [email protected] Phone: 404-656-5116

Bob Hanner – Dist 148 – [email protected]  Phone: 404-656-7859

Bill Maddox – Dist 127 – [email protected]  Phone: 404-656-3947

Jay Neal – Dist 1 – [email protected] Phone: 404-656-5138  

Billy Horne – Dist 71 – [email protected] Phone: 404-656-0287

Scott Holcomb – Dist 82 – [email protected] Phone: 404-656-6372  

Gloria Frazier  -Dist 123 – [email protected]  Phone: 404-656-0265

Kevin Cooke  -Dist 18 – [email protected] Phone: 404-656-0325  

Darlene Taylor – Dist 173 – [email protected] Phone: 404-656- 0177

Yasmin Neal  -Dist 75 – [email protected] Phone: 404-656-0265  

Doug Collins  -Dist 27 – [email protected] Phone: 404-656-7737

Tim Bearden  -Dist 68 – [email protected] Phone: 404-656-0287

    It is much, much better to email each member individually, but if you cannot, below are all the email addresses which you can copy and paste into your email:

[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] 

    CALL or EMAIL TODAY! 

    For more click on www.KnifeRights.org.

For more on the latest knives, knife legislation, knifemaking instruction, knife trends, knifemakers, what knives to buy and where and much more, subscribe to BLADE Magazine, the World’s No. 1 Knife Publication. For subscription information click on http://www.shopblade.com/product/blade-magazine-one-year-subscripti…?r+ssfb032012#BL1SU.