Why are knife control laws so strong in the United States as opposed to gun control?

I was realizing it would be nice to have a knife with auto opening for boxes, etc., basically a switch blade or similar, and I found out that they are super illegal in my state (and/or there are length restrictions, or both sides of the blade can’t be sharp, etc), but I can go into a sporting goods store and buy a pistol and ammo in under 30min.

Shooting open an Amazon box seems inefficient. What is up with restrictive knife-control laws??

    • ColeSloth
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      5 months ago

      Your two options on that are to cut excessively slowly and carefully, or don’t and dull your knife up. Plus you don’t know if it’s the clear tape or if it’s the paper box tape that op is cutting.