There was similar confusion about this license outside Canada, too. “To get a Firearms Business License in Canada is almost impossible and no knife store will be able to do it,” he said. “No one in Canada has except RCMP and cops. I tried to get one and there was no way,” Tighe said. However, that’s not the case for those who tried to do so. In theory, a knifemaker or knife company could obtain such a license. Holders of a specific type of Firearms Business Licence (FBL) are exempted from the new rules. An Exception to the New Rules? Not Really “We can’t import into Canada unless they were shipped in pieces and assembled in Canada,” Tighe said. Tighe also runs Brian Tighe and Friends, a knife company based in Erie, Pennsylvania. Bass Pro, etc., can sell what stock they have, but they can’t reorder,” Tighe told BLADE in an e-mail. They are now prohibited weapons and can’t be imported into Canada. “This will impact the knives I have designed with CRKT. If it sounds like these rules could insulate Canadian knifemakers from competition, few are making that case.īrian Tighe, an award-winning knifemaker from Ontario, Canada, expressed frustration with how his international work will be shut down. “So any examiner will be allowed, by law, to make any legal knife a prohibited weapon.” Canadian Knifemakers Impacted, too These cannot be flicked or opened by centrifugal force, but if the officer opens it halfway and flicks it, then it can be determined illegal. “In the law they can now go so far as to open the knife halfway and then flick it open, making it inadmissible,” Ostroff said. That’s because of how much leeway the CBSA can now use.
“Even the old trick of tightening the pivot down by the shipper so the knife barely opens until the pivot is released by the buyer will no longer work.” “Vendors outside of Canada, like me, will no longer ship any knives to Canada other than slip joint, lockback or fixed blade knives,” Ostroff said in an e-mail. Neil Ostroff, owner of True North Knives, and someone who relocated to the United States from Montreal, told BLADE in an e-mail that his options for Canadian customers are now limited. Bad idea.” Restrictions Severely Limit Options for Canadian Enthusiasts organization to come try and fix Canadian law. So, no time, lack of resources, and quite frankly, it wouldn’t be taken well for a U.S. “I have offered to help with advice and such based on our experience if they put together a Canadian organization, but I can’t do it for them. “I have gotten about a hundred emails and calls from Canadians about this,” noted Doug Ritter, chairman of Knife Rights. It isn’t only the knife world in the U.S. “From what little I know, I expect this will be an ‘all hands aboard’ effort.”
At this time, AKTI is working to understand more about it so a cogent response can be strategized and developed,” said BLADE Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame© member Les de Asis, CEO of Benchmade, in an e-mail to BLADE. “I attended an AKTI board call last week where this very recent ruling was discussed. Knife Advocacy Organizations Rallyīoth Knife Rights and the American Knife & Tool Institute (AKTI), the two foremost knife advocacy organizations in the U.S., told BLADE they are examining options. A more detailed summary is available from BLADE here. It only impacts imports, as well as individuals or mail crossing into Canada.Īs a result, knifemakers and knife companies not based in Canada can no longer offer most types of folding knives to Canadian customers. The restriction doesn’t extend to the rest of Canada.
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The new rules prohibit assisted opening knives, automatics and any manual knife that can open by centrifugal force from entering Canada. Knifemakers and knife companies based in the United States and elsewhere are scrambling to find a way to push back against new rules adopted this month by the Canada Border Services Agency. (Image by Spend A Day Touring, LLC via Flickr)
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