[SML] Prop Weapon Question - Legality

[Stephen Rees]

In a meth lab bust here just yesterday, one of the charges, among
others, was possession of a gravity knife.
Steve Rees

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Richard John Archer via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
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> Expanding on Kristi's comment:
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> New York VIllage Voice Article - How a '50s-Era New York Knife Law Has
> Landed Thousands in Jail
>
> http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2014/10/nyc-gravity-knife-law-arrests.php?page=all
>
> Stuart B
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>
> Yes I read this one before.   Here's a snippet from the article……for
> stagecraft
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> Stagehands are so frequently targeted that the major union representing them
> started publishing legal advice about pocketknives in its monthly
> newsletter.
>
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> or this part from a legal aid
>
> "Client was working as a stagehand and was stopped by police at Times
> Square."
>
> and this
> Others had noticed too. Daniel Gilloon, a representative with the
> International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, a trade union, says
> arrests of its members have become so routine that the leadership had to get
> involved. Now, several times a month, IATSE's president sits down to send
> form letters to local D.A.s, on the behalf of this or that member,
> explaining what the knife is for. In his industry, Gilloon adds,
> pocketknives aren't just common but, in fact, mandatory equipment.
> Stagehands who show up without a knife can actually be disciplined for
> coming to work unprepared. "It happens all the time," he says of the
> arrests.
>
>
> Well worth the read to see what illegal knife you have in NYC.
>
> I remember as a kid in the 50's when we had to get rid of switchblades and
> gravity knifes and were left with just "pen knifes" and my Dad's real Swiss
> Army Knife.
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>
>
> DickA
> TD, Cornell U
>
> Stopped carrying my one handed opening knife year ago for similar reasons.
>
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