DENVER (AP) — The switchblade knives wielded six decades ago by the fictional Jets and Sharks street gangs in the legendary Broadway musical "West Side Story" and in Hollywood films spooked lawmakers ...

You know that plastic knife and fork you get when you grab a bowl from Taco-Tastic for lunch? Jersey may be getting ready to ...

Idris Elba is urging the U.K. government to do more to end knife crime in the country. The Hollywood actor has launched the “Don’t Stop Your Future” campaign — which is calling for a ban on machetes ...

Ruiz and Sarlo both noted that the state should have been, in retrospect, more inclined to keep paper bags in circulation when the ban went into effect, because they can be more readily recycled or ...

A San Diego federal judge has ruled that California’s ban on knives that automatically open is lawful, and that the weapons more commonly known as switchblades are not protected by the Second ...

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.

(CN) — Hawaii will get a chance to reinstate a ban on butterfly knives after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Thursday to review a decision that determined the weapons fall under Second ...

(Bloomberg) -- Rishi Sunak’s government is trying again to ban “zombie-style” knives from Britain’s streets, amid public outrage over brutal stabbings that have laid bare the flaws in two previous ...

SEATTLE (CN) — The Ninth Circuit is again considering whether to return to a federal judge a Second Amendment case over whether Hawaii’s ban on the concealed carrying of butterfly knives is ...

A man in Oxford has become one of the first to be charged under a new law banning zombie knives. Kofie John-Welch, 29, was charged with the possession of an offensive weapon following a search of his ...