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In a decision issued Tuesday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court deemed it lawful for residents to carry a switchblade, reversing a 1957 state law. The law previously prohibited people from ...

Residents of Massachusetts are now free to arm themselves with switchblades after a 67-year-old restriction was struck down following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 landmark decision on gun rights and ...

Switchblades have moved from movie props to the center of a constitutional fight that could reset how you carry knives in daily life. As courts and lawmakers revisit old bans, your pocketknife is ...

"We conclude switchblades are not 'dangerous and unusual' weapons falling outside the protection of the Second Amendment," wrote Justice Serge Georges Jr. for the court in an opinion in Commonwealth v ...