Two Important decisions from the SJC and Appeals courts today

[M1911]

I agree with their decision to send it back down and vacate the conviction. The dumb thing is that anyone could think that thumb studs constitute such a device. Since the statute says "drawn" with the blade in the locked position, then it must require the blade to be open before the knife is taken out of or while the knife is being taken out of the pocket or holster that it is carried in, which would mean that a thumb stud couldn't be such a device and neither could the kershaw AO since you need to have them out of your pocket to deploy the blade.

So does that mean that knives with an Emerson Wave are illegal to carry in MA?

 

[mbullism]

Rather than worry about evil features on a pocket knife, wouldn't it just be easier to make it illegal to stab somebody?... oh- wait....

Lol, maybe they'll grandfather them, and we'll have to prove they are preban... wtf