Senators Mike Enzi (R-WY) and Mike Lee (R-UT) have introduced a complimentary Senate version of Knife Rights’ Knife Owners’ Protection Act, S.1955 (KOPA). This follows the introduction of Knife Rights’ KOPA bill in the U.S. House last November.
“Having KOPA bills in both houses of Congress was a key Knife Rights strategy from the start, increasing the chances for legislative success,” explains Knife Rights Chairman Doug Ritter. “Accomplishing this without substantive differences between the two bills further enhances the likelihood that the law eventually enacted will accomplish fully our goal of protecting America’s knife owners.”
The text of S.1955 should become available online next week.
The result of three years of effort, Knife Rights conceived, drafted and developed the Knife Owners’ Protection Act as the first proactive pro-knife federal legislation introduced in the nation’s history.
Ritter concluded, “This legislation will solve a real and growing problem that faces every knife owner traveling throughout Americathe threat of arrest and prosecution under misguided local laws merely for possessing knives during lawful travel,” concludes Ritter.
“As long as possession of the particular knife is legal where the journey starts and ends, and provided the knife is secured in accordance with KOPA, a knife owner would no longer be threatened with arrest simply for traveling from one place to another.”
