Amicus (Friend of the Court) briefs supporting Knife Rights’ Fifth Circuit appeal of the ludicrous District Court decision in our lawsuit challenging the Federal Switchblade Act on Second Amendment grounds have now been filed. These briefs are similar in nature to those filed the week prior in our Ninth Circuit appeal challenging California’s ban on switchblade (automatic) knives with a blade 2 inches or greater. Knife Rights really is the Second Front in the Defense of the Second Amendment .
- Amicus Brief of the National Rifle Association
- Amicus Brief of Second Amendment Foundation
- Amicus Brief of Firearms Policy Coalition
- Amicus Brief of Mountain States Legal Foundation’s Center to Keep and Bear Arms
The next step in this process is the Department of Justice’s reply brief. Recall that the Trump DOJ continued the Biden DOJ’s anti-Second Amendment position in their final reply brief to the District Court, despite the change in administration and the President’s executive order “Protecting Second Amendment Rights.” Knife Rights hopes that perhaps this time around the DOJ will reconsider its Biden-era positions and follow President Trump’s EO in its brief to the Fifth Circuit.
About Knife Rights
Since 2010, Knife Rights’ efforts have resulted in 58 bills & court decisions repealing knife bans & protecting knife owners in 36 states and over 200 cities and towns! Knife Rights is America’s grassroots knife owners’ organization; leading the fight to Rewrite Knife Law in America and forging a Sharper Future for all Americans .
