In People v. Munoz, 9 NY2d 51, 58 [1961] the Court of Appeals invalidated a statute which criminalized the possession of "any knife or sharp pointed or edged instrument which may be used for cutting or puncturing" by any person under the age of twenty-one (id. at 54-55). Although the Court recognized that the statute was "designed to meet a limited though serious evil" it found the statute "too vague and too general" to be reasonably related to public safety since it failed to exclude "the most commonly used and innocently possessed devices of everyday life," such as "safety razors, nail files and other potentially dangerous toilet articles" (id. at 57).