One thing, I'd love to be able to filter by which knives are legal in my city (NYC). An approximation that might be easier than adding jurisdiction white/black lists/flags to the data might be specific custom filters.
For instance, in NYC I think the law is against locking blades and blades over a certain blade length. So a quick apply of those filter parameters would do a decent job of removing the items that would be illegal to buy.
I wonder if this, while being a really good idea, is next to impossible without some serious liability concerns. A lot of the time the law does not enumerate specific models of weapon, and there end up being grey areas where a weapon could possibly be characterized as having a banned trait.
Though it may work as you’ve described it: don’t have searches for “is legal in X?” But rather provide search for those criteria. Plus a big legal disclaimer that it could be wrong.
They do, of course include disclaimers that they're not offering legal advice. I think attempting to combine that with a parametric search might be more legally risky, as it makes a specific statement of "X knife is legal in Y jurisdiction", which people might act on without further interpretation or analysis.
One thing, I'd love to be able to filter by which knives are legal in my city (NYC). An approximation that might be easier than adding jurisdiction white/black lists/flags to the data might be specific custom filters.
For instance, in NYC I think the law is against locking blades and blades over a certain blade length. So a quick apply of those filter parameters would do a decent job of removing the items that would be illegal to buy.