[ED: If you carry a gun – and even if you don’t – you need to carry a knife for self-defense. As we’ve said many times, a gun is often unavailable to an armed self-defender in the heat of battle. A firearm can also malfunction (more probably you but that’s another story) or go skittering across the floor. You need a plan B. This series is designed to help you find a suitable blade for backup.]
I got to play with this not-yet-released EDC knife at the SHOT Show last week. If you’re a knife guy, I already know what you’re thinking: So Ken Onion is plagiarizing his own designs now? Not quite: look again at that hollow grind blade and the missing assisted-opening safety bar near the lanyard hole . . . And jump over to The Truth About Knives for the rest of the details.
Sounds like a job for the magnificent 7. Which is what i would call my trucking company if i was puting ar parts in lead ingots to take south and be assembled into rifles and bullets
you need to carry a knife for self-defense
No, you need to carry a knife to open boxes, clean your fingernails, cut rope and dig out splinters.
If your primary reason for carrying a knife is all the mall ninja bullshit you described, it’s time to re-evaluate your life.
I really doubt he’ll find too many willing converts among the denizens of the WaPo subscribership. Even with his background, the vast majority of the collectivist sheeple that pay homage to the civilian disarmament industrial complex will simply write him off as a lunatic and cleave desperately to the ever-diminishing credibility of the notion that disarming good people protects good people.
They don’t know squat about gun laws, they don’t know squat about guns, they don’t know squat about who uses them for what or why, and they don’t know these things because they literally don’t want to know because they don’t fucking care. All they know — and all they want to know — is they themselves personally “feel” that guns are horrible, dangerous things that nobody should have (and it’s even getting to the point where some of them feel that not even the police can handle them — and in that case I can actually somewhat agree with them but only to a point). They are so hopelessly dependent on the ever-thinning veneer of cognitive dissonance enabled by collectivist academia to avert personal responsibility to themselves that they’ll say anything to protect it.
P.S.: I would have also added “do anything”, but then I remember they’re for an unarguable fact entirely too cowardly to do the dirty work themselves. That’s why they depend utterly and entirely on the State to do it for them, and thus they enable the State to carry this notion that it absolutely must have a completely monopoly on violence to do their [the collectivist sheeple’s] bidding.
I love a basic, everyday essential knife that has a multipurpose function. I found a site for just that; epicedgeblade.com has just that, but i’m just a newbie at knives…
P938 fits nicely in mine, EDC.
I heard a perhaps apocryphal story about the late Louis Seecamp, Larry’s father, who developed the original .25 ACP Seecamp pistol. A customer complained that it had no sights. Seecamp snapped back, “Fachrisake, ya stick it up their nose and pull the trigger!”
I’m going to have to ask the obvious question – why no Ruger LCP?
I just picked one up, a new production model with the improved sights and trigger pull. That trigger pull is still not the lightest in the world (I’d estimate it at 7# or so) but it’s all right otherwise. No creep, grit, stacking, etc. Just a fairly long but smooth course of travel. It’s as good as my friend’s Taurus 738, which is also notably missing from this particular roundup.
Thus far, my only beef is that the slide stop is very difficult to engage manually, and does not engage when the magazine runs dry. Too, there’s no second strike capability – you have to pull the slide to reset the trigger should a round not fire.
What I’m wondering is whether or not Sig or Colt, which appear to have the best triggers by virtue of their single action design, will see fit to slim down their pistols or not. Or is thin overrated?
Tom
Only true pocket pistol I’ve ever owned (and that a lot of people overlook) was the SIG P290. To be quite honest, it was really nice for day-to-day work.
*Never felt bad to shoot
*Never had a hiccup in 500 rounds even during break-in (I bought it new)
*Carried in the pocket quite nicely (I admit I’m a fairly large dude with cargo pants to match)
*Had a “relevant” caliber (good ol’ 9mm Parabellum)
Damn near perfect, I thought. Only thing I didn’t like was that it wasn’t a true DAO system. You had to rack the slide to prime the hammer—couldn’t just pull the trigger. They even fixed that with the Gen 2 version.
Ended up trading it because I figured out I’m an utterly terrible shot with any semi that has a 3″ or less barrel. Still though, for $500 you could do way, way worse if you’re trying to find a good pocket carry option.
Remember those pre-1968 ads in Popular Mechanics etc for dirt cheap .12 caliber revolvers?
My 2 favorite knives are the Kershaw Skyline knife and the SOG Flash 1 knife which is smaller than the Skyline. I love to carry my kershaw knife as a self defence knife. Tanks you Chris for letting us know about the knife and make an useful conversation here.
You guys crack me up .”mall ninja”never heard a more jelous term in my life.shoot someone in america self defence or not youre skrewed.guns are more “mall ninja”then a knife.atleast you can use the knife for something.since when did a tool become a ninja weapon.I love people who automaticaly post “well I will just use my generic name of knife cause that knife sucks”.who cares. go to a post about youre knife thats better then every other knife in the world and post there or shut up.trolls will be trolls.does anyone have anything usrfull to post about the knife in the article or are we just going cry.