Legislative Update

Below you will find the current Officers and Directors of Knife Rights, Inc. and Knife Rights Foundation, Inc. Except where specifically noted, Officers and Directors serve on boards of both organizations, but each is operated independently. Doug Ritter – Founder, Chairman and CEO Douglas S. Ritter is an award-winning journalist and authority in the areas of survival and survival equipment. Mr. Ritter served as a contributing editor to The Aviation Consumer and Aviation Safety for over a decade and was also Safety and Survival Editor for Practical Sailor and Powerboat Reports. … Continued... Read More

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I'd like to acknowledge those who shared my vision and generously opened their wallets to make Knife Rights a reality, our Cornerstone Founding Members:Al Mar Knives – Gary FaddenColumbia River Knife & Tool – Rod BremerEssential Gear – Robert Walker & Susan MartinEthan BeckerKA-BAR Knives – John StittLone Wolf Knives – Jim WehrsOntario Knife Company – Nick Turbrvic, Jr.Tops Knives – Mike FullerWenger Swiss Army KnivesBrownells – Pete BrownellRowen Mfg. – Shon Rowen... Read More

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Charter Members of Knife Rights who join by March 10, 2007 will be entered to win one of a number of custom knives contributed by some of the world’s best knife makers.  These extraordinary knives are valued starting at almost $400 and go up from there. These custom knives are works of art, made from exotic and beautiful materials such as titanium, carbon fiber, Damascus steel, stag’s antler and mother of pearl.  Some are eminently practical and meant to be used, … Continued... Read More

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The recent Wall Street Journal article titled, "How New, Deadly Pocketknives Became a $1 Billion Business," has served as a wake up call to knife owners everywhere who see in this a desire by "anti-everything" forces to quite literally take away our knives (read the WSJ article in PDF format (1 MB download) or in standard web format as published in another paper) The one knife used to illustrate the original WSJ article, … Continued... Read More

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Every year the anti's introduce laws that would further restrict the knives you can own and carry. The knife industry started the American Knife and Tool Institute (ATKI) a few years ago to help combat these efforts and they have done a pretty good job up to now. However, ATKI has evolved into pretty much an industry organization and while it offers memberships to individuals, "ambassadors" as they refer to them, it offers the individual members not much more than that title. … Continued... Read More

Same organization, new name. The U.S. Knife & Tool Association name was a quick response to a developing situation when we first came up with the idea for this organization. We needed a better name; one that was more marketable, one that had a memorable domain name (that was available), and one that wouldn't be confused with the industry organization, AKTI. Knife Rights more clearly identifies what we are all about, the domain is easy to remember and it won't be confused with AKTI. … Continued... Read More

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This is the web site of Knife Rights, Inc. and Knife Rights Foundation, Inc. The publisher can be reached via email We believe that electronic privacy is crucial for the ongoing success of the Internet as a service, commercial and entertainment medium. For each visitor to our Web pages, our Web server automatically recognizes only the visitor's domain name (where possible), but not the email address. We collect only the domain name, … Continued... Read More

Why did you form Knife Rights? We organized Knife Rights in December of 2006 as a result of an article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal article (read the WSJ article in PDF format (1 MB download) or in standard web format as published in another paper). This article served as the catalyst that focused our attention on the threat. We recognized that those with an anti-knife agenda strategically planted the seeds for this article with a reporter they knew would likely end up writing it with the slant they were looking for. … Continued... Read More