The beauty of the balisong-like mechanism is, you can flick it around like a maniac without risk of losing a digit.

The Second Amendment is arguably the most interesting area of American constitutional law right now. Courts and judges have already spent more than two centuries defining the scope of what counts as ...

Think of Benchmade today, and you will most likely picture the Bugout, followed by the Osborne and Griptilian and then perhaps the Meatcrafter, Narrows, Shootout or a few other models, depending where ...

The butterfly knife is at the heart of a controversy over Second Amendment rights. Butterfly knives are under fire in some U.S. states. Michigan just joined a case involving controversy over Hawaii's ...

In a Feb. 22 order, the panel vacated its previous decision that the state's ban on butterfly knives facially constituted "arms." The original version of this story was published on Law.com The U.S.

A panel of federal judges ruled a Hawaii law banning butterfly knives violates the Second Amendment under the Supreme Court's new history-and-tradition standard. "Hawaii has not demonstrated that its ...

A conservative panel of federal judges ruled Monday that a 30-year ban on butterfly knives in Hawaii is unconstitutional under the U.S. Supreme Court’s new “history and tradition” standard for ...

So the Ninth Circuit held today (Teter v. Lopez), in an opinion by Judge Carlos Bea, joined by Judges Daniel Collins and Kenneth Lee. The butterfly knife, also known as the "balisong," has a disputed ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has agreed to rehear a case regarding whether Hawaii's ban on butterfly knives is illegal under the Second Amendment. In a Feb. 22 order, the panel ...