Question For You Georgia Boys (and Girls)

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Hey folks.

My Wife an I are moving from my beloved Northern Florida to Metro Atlanta. This will be a huge change for me, as I am accustomed to a semi-rural lifestyle.

Anyway, I was reading up on the carry laws of my soon to be home when I came to the section regarding knives. Any knives "designed for offense or defense" can't be carried, regardless of ccw status.

I carry a Spyderco Waved Endura. I've been carrying it for quite a long time. I look at knives primarily as tools, and I find that the Endura meets my needs for a locking folder better than any other I've tried so far.

What I want to know is, does the Waved Endura fall under the "designed for offense or defense" category?
 
Spyderco has no knives designed for offensive carry, but their literature does extol the defensive purposes of some of their knives. The Endura isn't one of these.

Regarding the phrase in the GA law, it's a catchall phrase so that a knife that isn't listed in the weapons categories can be treated as one.
 
same delema here, switchblade knives and auto opening knives are "legal" in kentucky as long as they arent concealed, but i have never known police or anybody else to hassle you about it, as long as a knife can be classified as "a ordinary pocket or hunting knife" its legal to carry in Ky.
 
Other jurisdictions eg Kansas, treat knives as weapons if the blades are longer than 4". If your blade is 4" or less, and otherwise not described as defensive, then you have some grounds for treating it as a tool. However I suspect with that Georgia language it will be up to the discretion of local LE / DA as to whether you get charged with an offense.
 
EVERY city in Ga is allowed its own ordinance concerning knives and there carry!
The knife I carried for years here nearly got me arrested in Macon,so going intoMetro Atlanta would subject you to about 50 differing sets of whats legal.
robert
 
Skofnung,

The law's rather vague, isn't it? There's a reason for that. Gives the LEO discretion.

I've been frisked with various lockblades as well as small fixed blades. I've never been charged but once, and that was with one of those very large Barlows you used to see around thirty and forty years ago.

The cops usually aren't too concerned about knives unless they figure you're a bad guy. Then they'll throw it in with everything else they can find.
 
Hey Byron, i gotta ask :evil: What is one of our noble moderators doing that results him in being frisked various times ? Inquiring minds.........:D
 
Speeding, usually. Other minor traffic violations. Stopped. Back seat full of pistols, revolvers, shotguns, rifles, knives, khukris, etc.

Usually involved traffic stops. I giggle sometimes when asked if there are any weapons in the vehicle-sometimes I just ask,"What do you need?"

Some officers don't blink and go on about the business of the stop. Some get all wound up in making lists of the various implements of destruction. A few times to the point where they forgot to pursue the reason they stopped me to begin with
 
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