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 ...

Teter and Grell’s attorney, Alan A. Beck, told the Honolulu Star- Advertiser in an interview that he and his clients feel “real good” about the court’s ruling and noted the importance of the balisong ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Monday morning the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, ruled against Hawaii's ban on owning butterfly knives. A lawsuit had been opened, it went to the Ninth Circuit and the ruling was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aug. 8—Hawaii's 30-year ban on butterfly knives was overturned Monday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals when the three-judge panel ruled that the right to carry the blade was protected by the ...