Governor Andrew Cuomo vetoed legislation that would decriminalize certain gravity knives for the second year running on Monday night, to the chagrin of police reform advocates and the knife lobby, who ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The ban on gravity knives in New York has been lifted, and while it's good news for many workers and artisans, it's creating a new problem for some law enforcement officers.

For years, the NYPD and city prosecutors have exploited New York’s broadly worded 1958 gravity knife statute to arrest and prosecute thousands of New Yorkers who possess common folding knives that are ...

ALBANY -- Gravity knives will remain illegal in New York. After passing both the Assembly and the Senate two years in a row, Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed a bill Monday that would have legalized gravity ...

ALBANY — There’s a switch. Gov. Cuomo signed legislation Thursday legalizing so-called gravity knives, after twice vetoing similar bills in the past. The law amends the state penal code to ...

Black and Latino men had often been charged under New York’s unusual ban on the knives, which are opened with a flick of the wrist. By Jesse McKinley Over the past 60 years, tens of thousands of black ...

ALBANY, N.Y. – New York's decades-long ban on gravity knives has come to an end. Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week approved legislation removing the folding knives from the "dangerous weapons" category ...