The Wilson-Anthony FightArchived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, Department of Arkansas-Heritage, retrieved 1 August 2011: In 1836 a knife fight broke out between the Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives, John Wilson, and Rep. Joseph Anthony in the middle of a contentious legislative session; Anthony was killed, while Wilson was expelled from office and later indicted for murder.
Baton Charge Racing Boss Cleared: In 2004, a businessman and ex-military officer, Nicholas Samengo-Turner, was stopped at a mass search checkpoint in London and arrested for possessing a small Swiss Army multitool with two short locking blades (2+15⁄16 inches or 7.5 centimetres and 2+5⁄8 inches or 6.7 centimetres) in the locked boot of his car. While eventually cleared, the arrest cost Samengo-Turner a multi-million pound business deal and thousands of pounds in court costs.
State of Florida v. Darynani, So.2d (Fla. 4th DCA 2000): In State of Florida v. Darynani, a Florida appellate court held that a poorly written state criminal knife statute (Sec. 790.225) that had been hurriedly drafted in 1985 to prohibit the ballistic knife must be interpreted to prohibit switchblade knives as well, despite the lack of any specific evidence that the legislative branch intended to prohibit switchblades when drafting the ballistic knife provision. The court's error was finally corrected by the Florida Legislature in 2003 with the passage of HB 1227 (2003) (see HB 1227 (2003).
There are two sub-categories within "catégorie D": the unregulated D Category weapons and the regulated D category weapons; see'Arme de catégorie D (en vente libre ou soumise à enregistrement)', www.service-public.fr website, accessed on May 10, 2017 [1]'Loi n° 2012-304 du 6 mars 2012 relative à l’établissement d’un contrôle des armes modernes, simplifié et préventif'
Weapon of Category D (freely available or subject to registration), www.service-public.fr website, accessed on August 23, 2023 [3]
State of Florida v. Darynani, So.2d (Fla. 4th DCA 2000): In State of Florida v. Darynani, a Florida appellate court held that a poorly written state criminal knife statute (Sec. 790.225) that had been hurriedly drafted in 1985 to prohibit the ballistic knife must be interpreted to prohibit switchblade knives as well, despite the lack of any specific evidence that the legislative branch intended to prohibit switchblades when drafting the ballistic knife provision. The court's error was finally corrected by the Florida Legislature in 2003 with the passage of HB 1227 (2003) (see HB 1227 (2003).
The Wilson-Anthony FightArchived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, Department of Arkansas-Heritage, retrieved 1 August 2011: In 1836 a knife fight broke out between the Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives, John Wilson, and Rep. Joseph Anthony in the middle of a contentious legislative session; Anthony was killed, while Wilson was expelled from office and later indicted for murder.