Depending on the state, possession of a fully-automatic knife can get you into a whole heap of trouble. Is this a problem? Although I’m not a knife fighter by nature (or experience) I reckon a switchblade doesn’t offer a significant tactical advantage over a slick inertia-based opening system—in the hands of a practiced owner. That said, I carry a gun. My blade is a back-up safety system. So if I’m going that way I’m gonna need to go there fast. The magical appearance of a sharp blade with a significant snick makes for a nice bit of security theater, perhaps even intimidation. Hmmm. Automatic knife, folding knife. Why choose?
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I have a feeling that when the insecurity guard tries to demonstrate how this shooting happened, he’s going to look like Rosemarie Woods demonstrating how she accidentally erased 17 minutes of tape.
People too often confuse “making sense” with the power to place barriers to the exercise of fundamental rights.
Clearly, any cost/benefit “interest balancing” test cannot legimitately be used in the application of any fundamental right.
Yes, it makes sense to encourage such training (“encourage” being the operative word), and having everyone properly trained would give us more peace of mind.
But mandating training to exercise a constitutionally guaranteed fundamental right crosses the line, whether we believe that it makes sense or not.
Cant play the video. Does it cost at leas a grand, cuz you know we suck and H&K hates us.
I have a solution. Up the standards of hiring practices for police officers by only hiring ones that can actually shoot and hit the bullseye, or get a decent grouping close to one. Then issue .357 mag revolvers. Better round than .40 or .45 by far.
Speaking of “off topic”. Why do you guys insist on feeding the troll? Isn’t this TTAG or have I got the wrong site?
To be fair H&K knives are made by Benchmade, the title in this case is mainly for marketing. The prices for the blades actually tend to be about equivalent or a bit lower than their benchmade brethren. I carried around an HK ally for a while that cost me about $23 courtesy of AAFES and it was a decent little blade for the price.
As for the switchblade question, sorry but i’m not really buying into the hype. A knife with a thumb-plate or wave can accomplish the same task without the social stigma and as a rule of thumb, for significantly lower prices.