The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (MSJC) has struck down a ban on switchblades, which had been in place for 67 years, as it violated the Second Amendment.
According to Newsweek, magistrates at the MSJC based the overturn on the 2022 New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. The federal high court ruled at the time that citizens have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense. This ruling was subsequently applied to the Aug. 27 ruling by the Bay State’s highest court.
The MSJC ruled that switchblades do not need special restrictions under the Second Amendment, allowing residents to arm themselves with switchblades for self-defense. MSJC Associate Justice Serge Georges Jr. concluded that spring-loaded knives are “arms” under the high court’s majority opinion.
“Nothing about the physical qualities of switchblades suggests they are uniquely dangerous,” he wrote. “Therefore, the carrying of switchblades is presumptively protected by the plain text of the Second Amendment.” (Related: 2nd Amendment ‘does not exist’ in some NY courtrooms according to one judge presiding over the trial of a gunsmith.) […]
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