After seven years and two previous vetoes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday signed a bill decriminalizing so-called “gravity knives” in New York. The bill, unanimously passed three times by the state ...

Governor Andrew Cuomo vetoed legislation that would decriminalize certain gravity knives for the second year running on Monday night, to the chagrin of police reform advocates and the knife lobby, who ...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation that ends the legal ban on so-called gravity knives, a term used to describe folding knives with locking blades that can be opened with a flick of the ...

A federal judge in New York has deemed a state ban on gravity knives to be unconstitutional — but stopped short of striking down the controversial statute entirely. Citing the "high risk of arbitrary ...

A New York appeals court heard oral arguments on January 14 in a challenge to a controversial knife law that has landed tens of thousands of suspects in jail over the past ten years. New York’s ...

ALBANY -- Gravity knives will remain illegal in New York. After passing both the Assembly and the Senate two years in a row, Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed a bill Monday that would have legalized gravity ...

A little-known law against "gravity knives," a broadly defined weapon that law enforcement has erroneously been applying to folding knives, could soon be amended by the New York state government, ...

Shortly after taking office as District Attorney of Manhattan, Cyrus Vance, Jr., began enforcing a novel interpretation of New York State’s half-century old ban on “gravity knives.” A state statute ...

New York, NY -- A federal judge pulled out an illegal "gravity knife" in a New York City courtroom Thursday and flicked it open. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest wasn't trying to show off her ...