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Cracking down on tools

Investigators in NY go under cover to arrest people for illegal knives. In the fine tradition of going after business, they go to the Home Depot and determine that those knives that are sold in 50 states are too dangerous for NYC residents. And this:

The stores – and four others – have already agreed to stop selling them, relinquish their inventories, turn over all profits from selling the illegal blades over the past four years and contribute to a public awareness campaign.

Seems a big steep.

16 Responses to “Cracking down on tools”

  1. ParatrooperJJ Says:

    Thats NYC for you.

  2. ericire12 Says:

    Notice how they threw in a good old fashioned money grab also… Good old politicians. It never fails.

  3. clamp Says:

    The NY Times is reporting the city is going to clear cut Central Park because the trees could be used to make pointy sticks.

  4. Oscar Says:

    Different in style, but not in substance, from Obama’s “BP Shakedown 2009”.

    I wonder if ACORN (or whatever they’re calling themselves these days) will get a piece of that “awareness” campaign?

  5. Bobby Says:

    Wow! thats a fold of epic proportions.

  6. nk Says:

    None of those are switchblade or gravity knives. They’re easy opening knives that can be opened with one hand by 1) pushing up the blade about a 1/4 of the way and flicking your wrist or 2) by moving a button in the handle three inches or so to push the blade out. Are there going to be no utility knives or drywall knives in NYC after this?

  7. Dwight Brown Says:

    I got a kick out of the video linked from the *NYT* article on same. (Snowflakes in Hell has the link.) Especially the undercover purchaser asking “Is it dangerous?”

    Is knife! Is not safe!

  8. Chris Says:

    I love the picture showing all those super dangerous box cutters

  9. bwm Says:

    Standing over a table packed with sharp and shiny blades, he praised the seven companies that turned over their stocks and a total of $1.9 million, for demonstrating “good corporate citizenship.”

    The phrase “good corporate citizenship” makes me feel sick for some reason, but I can’t place exactly why.

  10. dustydog Says:

    Now I have to scour the internet, to see where and when NYC auctions off those knives. I know for a fact they won’t destroy valuable property. I suppose they might sell the stuff under the table, or give the knives away to city employees.

  11. ATLien Says:

    If I’m the owner of Home Depot, not only do i fight this, i disappear any politician in favor of it.

  12. boB Says:

    I hope the drywall workers of New York start a protest; and the warehouse workers; and the glaziers and the…..

  13. Bubblehead Les Says:

    Noticed that the Manhattan DA who decided to rid New You is Cy Vance, son of Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, and some of us remember how well Carter’s Foreign Policies worked. Blood will tell out…

  14. bob dole Says:

    Shakedown baby!
    Yah, Its a shakedown! Yay, baby!

  15. Ted Says:

    Gotta love that police state smell. God help me, I pray I never get orders for Ft. Drum.

  16. KCSteve Says:

    KnifeRights.org is on this – http://www.kniferights.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=114&Itemid=1

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