It appears that SB17-008 is already scheduled for a hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee. It is scheduled to be heard on January 25, 2017. The hearing will start at 1:30PM. They will meet in Senate Conference Room 352. The Senators on the committee are Bob Gardner (R), John Cooke (R), Rhonda Fields (D), Daniel Kagan (D) and Don Coram (R). Feel free to ask them to support the bill.

While it is a long shot, I am hopeful that this bill will attract some Democratic support (it will need it in the House) because switchblade knife laws were enacted and created to enable police to pick on minorities. They are still used for this purpose, especially the hopelessly vague and ridiculous gravity knife laws. Maryland's ban on gravity knives was the ostensible basis for the arrest of Freddie Gray in Baltimore in 2015, where he died after his arrest.

Colorado's switchblade knife law was enacted first in 1951, at the height of the "scare" over these knives. In 1971, when the Colorado Criminal Code was rewritten, the law still in place was enacted. It is past time that this law banning mere possession of these knives, was repealed.