cuchillos balisticos:MUY prohibidos en USA, de ahi que no viera mas los anuncios.
Legality in the USA
[edit] History of legislation
After hearing uncorroborated testimony from a congressional witnesss that ballistic knives could be used to defeat
body armor typically worn by police officers, and witnessing a staged demonstration against a wood-backed target,
[13] Senator
Alphonse D'Amato of New York introduced the
Ballistic Knife Prohibition Act, a bill to ban sale or possession of ballistic knives. The bill eventually failed. However, after gaining the support of Senators
Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, and
Dennis DeConcini of Arizona,
[14] congressional support for a ban on import or possession of ballistic knives quickly gained traction. In September 1986 senators supporting the ballistic knife ban attached their bill to popular legislation designed to eradicate drug crops in foreign countries and halt international drug trafficking operations. The bill was subsequently enacted into law. The new federal statute prohibited future importation or possession of such knives in interstate commerce. Some individual states following the example set by the federal law and passed even tighter restrictions, sometimes banning ownership of the knives outright within their state.
[edit] Current law
Similar to conventional
automatic knives, federal law makes ballistic knives with a spring-operated blade
[15] illegal to possess, manufacture, sell, or import "in or affecting interstate commerce."
[16] This means they are illegal to import from outside the US, as well as buy or sell over state lines, including possessing or making them
with intent to sell over state lines. The federal law also makes it a separate crime to use or possess a ballistic knife during the commission of a
federal crime of
violence, with a minimum sentence of 5 years in a federal prison. Federal law does not prohibit the possession, manufacture, or sale of a ballistic knife within a state's boundaries, and the individual laws of each state or territory must be consulted to determine whether possession, manufacture, or sale within a given state is legal (many states have statutes that regulate or prohibit the acquisition and/or possession of ballistic knives, and penalties vary from state to state). Like the federal
switchblade law, an exception is made for sale to the
US Armed Forces within the confines of a
contract, as well as possession by duly-authorized members of the Armed Forces in performance of their duty.
[17]
A ballistic knife with a blade propelled by an explosive charge is legal to own under federal law, as it is deemed a firearm under the AOW (Any Other Weapons) category of the NFA.