Washington state’s draconian knife ban bill from last year, SB 5098, has reared its ugly head again, as we told you might happen. The bill failed to get a floor vote before last year’s legislature ended. Now it is back and due to the way Washington’s legislature works, the amendment we worked so hard to insert in the bill to protect knife carriers to a significant extent went away.
The original bill that would ban possession of “any knife” on over 6.5 million acres of public land in Washington,
