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Massachusetts high court strikes down switchblade ban (www.reuters.com)

submitted 2 months ago by FireTower to c/boston

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19239048

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held, opens new tab that a 1957 law barring people from possessing spring-release pocketknives commonly known as "switchblades" violated the right to keep and bear arms enshrined in the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment.

The court reached that conclusion while dismissing a charge filed against David Canjura for unlawfully possessing a switchblade, which Boston police found when responding to a report of an altercation between Canjura and his girlfriend.

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