Thread: RE Knife legislation

I will say up front that I haven't had extensive experience with Switchblades, or 'Automatic Knives' but the ones I have handled all left something to be desired in the 'Quality Department.' I carry a 1981 vintage Case Mako, which is a pretty substantial knife. It has a thumb stud on the blade (which I installed.) I can open it one handed, about as fast as a Switchblade will open. And it's a much better made knife. I have never seen the fascination with what is pretty much a piece of junk. At least the examples I have seen were junk!
Other folks' experience may differ from mine. Or as the car ads say, YMMV.

Originally Posted by Brother Jeeter

I will say up front that I haven't had extensive experience with Switchblades, or 'Automatic Knives' but the ones I have handled all left something to be desired in the 'Quality Department.' I carry a 1981 vintage Case Mako, which is a pretty substantial knife. It has a thumb stud on the blade (which I installed.) I can open it one handed, about as fast as a Switchblade will open. And it's a much better made knife. I have never seen the fascination with what is pretty much a piece of junk. At least the examples I have seen were junk!
Other folks' experience may differ from mine. Or as the car ads say, YMMV.

There are definitely quality switchblades available, they just cost more than your typical knife. I have one that I like quite a bit and used to always carry, but the laws here are more strict than Oklahoma.

I carried a benchmade for work for many years and it was a very substantial and very high quality knife with a 4.5 inch tonto blade semi serrated. I have a Cuda max with a 5.5 inch talonite that I carry now. Its not an auto but has a thumb stud and I can open it very rapidly however whether you think you can open (manually) a knife faster than an auto (and you can't with a quality one) you still have to draw it and open it. With a switchblade it can all be done totally concealed as evidenced by enough people who have opened them in their pants. I guess a highly skilled knifefighter with a butterfly knife can come about as close as I've ever seen.

I have a very nice collection of well made automatics. Interestingly I can open and close the Benchmade 940 I carry everyday faster than some of the fully automatic blades that are illegal.

I am doing my best to defeat foolish arbitrary laws regarding knives. If anyone has an interest in any illegal knives, such as switchblades or throwing knives, just let me know and we'll see what we can do. I can be surprisingly clever. Onje of the best things on the market is the double action automatic. I have a couple but this one is just amazing. http://www.tactical-life.com/online/...911-automatic/ I had a thread about it. Here it is but the pictures seem to have goed away: http://straightrazorpalace.com/finer...ollection.html