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Just got my CHL in the mail yesterday and now I have a question. Now that I have it can I carry a knife concealed that I use to not be able to? Like my Gerber boot knife? I know I can carry my Auto concealed now.
SOOO, how do you go about getting a CWP, Concealed WEAPON Permit? That would cover it all, wouldn't it?
Close, but not quite.You can't get one in Oregon as they are not issued. I'm not a lawyer, but the last time I looked into it you cannot, unless you're active mil/leo, carry any sort of fixed blade or automatic knife concealed. The way the law reads, they seem to have covered their bases well and you're better off carrying a folder to make sure you're within the legal scope of the law.
any knife having a blade that projects or swings into position by force of a spring or by centrifugal force, any dirk, dagger, ice pick, slungshot, metal knuckles, or any similar instrument
I wouldn't rely on that "definition" of dirk and/or dagger to defend yourself in a court. Historically, early daggers and their European predecessors (the seax and similar instruments) had single-edged blades in a pronounced triangular section. Some forms of dagger (the rondel/roundel and misericorde come to mind here) never developed an edge and were intended as thrusting weapons only. The idea that daggers had two edges and knives one is a gross oversimplification applied by people who haven't really bothered to study medieval arms in any detail. But more to the point, the ORS doesn't bother to give a legal definition of those terms, and as a result, even if a dagger did have two edges, the "similar instrument" referenced in ORS 166.240 could be taken to include "fixed blade knives", or swords for that matter.You can have a fixed blade, of any length, concealed on your person as long as it is single edged (ie. not a dirk or dagger which are defined as double edged blades). "Centrifugal force", for all practical purposes, just refers to butterfly knives.
You can have a fixed blade, of any length, concealed on your person as long as it is single edged (ie. not a dirk or dagger which are defined as double edged blades). "Centrifugal force", for all practical purposes, just refers to butterfly knives.
Spring assisted is ok to carry concealed.
Oregon Public Order Offense 166.240 Carrying of concealed weapons. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, any person who carries concealed upon the person any knife having a blade that projects or swings into position by force of a spring or by centrifugal force, any dirk, dagger, ice pick, slungshot, metal knuckles, or any similar instrument by the use of which injury could be inflicted upon the person or property of any other person, commits a Class B misdemeanor.
You can carry a concealed pocketknife. Unless I'm horribly out of date and pocketknives no longer have folding blades?
I wouldn't rely on that "definition" of dirk and/or dagger to defend yourself in a court. Historically, early daggers and their European predecessors (the seax and similar instruments) had single-edged blades in a pronounced triangular section. Some forms of dagger (the rondel/roundel and misericorde come to mind here) never developed an edge and were intended as thrusting weapons only. The idea that daggers had two edges and knives one is a gross oversimplification applied by people who haven't really bothered to study medieval arms in any detail. But more to the point, the ORS doesn't bother to give a legal definition of those terms, and as a result, even if a dagger did have two edges, the "similar instrument" referenced in ORS 166.240 could be taken to include "fixed blade knives", or swords for that matter.