Like a butterfly-style knife, a gravity knife only requires a couple of simple flicks of your wrist to open and close. This ...

A little-known law against "gravity knives," a broadly defined weapon that law enforcement has erroneously been applying to folding knives, could soon be amended by the New York state government, ...

A bill that would decriminalize the possession of some pocket knives has been stalled in the New York Senate for more than two years, and the main roadblock has been an ardent supporter of the Second ...

For years, the NYPD and city prosecutors have exploited New York’s broadly worded 1958 gravity knife statute to arrest and prosecute thousands of New Yorkers who possess common folding knives that are ...

A New York appeals court heard oral arguments on January 14 in a challenge to a controversial knife law that has landed tens of thousands of suspects in jail over the past ten years. New York’s ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The knife is one of mankind's oldest and most versatile tools, with origins that go back more than 2 million years. Metal blades appeared ...

It took three tries, but the state legislature has passed a measure that’s poised to end the most egregious arrests under New York’s much abused “gravity knife” statute. The GOP-led Senate voted ...