On a 25-10 vote, the Idaho Senate has endorsed legislation banning local government ordinances regulating the carrying or use of knives, despite an Idaho Attorney General’s opinion that SB 1092 as written conflicts with an existing state law that says schools can regulate knives on campus and at school events. Sen. Lee Heider, R-Twin Falls, waved around a folding Buck knife during his debate for the bill, which he’s sponsoring; he said cities have varying local ordinances about knives. “Essentially what it says is that the state has primacy,” he said of the bill. “The state of Idaho has primacy over knives just like we do over guns, just like we do over so many other things”/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.

Question: Has the Idaho Senate done something reckless here?