when I was a kid, people didn't smuggle drugs back when they went to Mexico, they smuggled cherry bomb fireworks and these swithchblades.

I've got to say, the number of harmless tasks that I perform on a day to day basis that may not require, but are certainly easier to juggle with a one hand opening pocketknife are legion. They're a useful tool. The natural end to this is that all tire irons must be wrapped with 4 inches of visible orange foam and locked in a case at your house which you will be permitted to have someone open and drive the thing to you only after calling homeland security and awaiting a permit.
How young is too young to be this cynical?

Forget my last post. A folder with a pocket clip is just too useful.

Ya know how "they" think. "Let's start small with pocket knifes, then we can start taking their firearms next".

The state of Colorado already has some sort of knife ban on the books because I cannot buy from Sportman's Guide any knife with a blade long enough to be called a knife. I think some mail order outlets pay attention to this "law" and others do not.

Of late, I have taken to gene pool management by better means. You have to get within arm's distance to use a switchblade. Not so with a Smith & Wesson. I'm tired of those POS knives from China or wherever anyway.

OHHHHH NICE BLADE I SOOOO WANT ONE:D:D:D
My leathermans blades open with one hand, just use the thumb on the blade and push the right way and it swings into place with a satisfying click.. is it next to go????
What about the thongs?? they can pinch u real nasty too!!
First they take washington then they take your cutlery:P

(study history and notice that when everyone carried dirks and daggers people where more curteous to each other..:P)(if u didnt u where peasant and downtrodden and could be pushed around by nobles with laughable haircuts:P)

Nice job, Dave. It's all based on ignorance. Butterfly knives (I mean the Filipino types with the swinging handles, not the Chinese short swords) are also illegal, and why? Unless you are Dan Inosanto, they are actually a pretty fiddly type of knife. I can get one of my Spydercos out of my pocket and be using it in the time it takes the average butterfly knifer to finish twirling the handles. But somebody somewhere once told a liberal at a cocktail party that butterfly knives were dangerous, so now you can't legally carry one. Will I now have to give up my Leatherman Waves because their blades lock open, too?

People, this is just one more call to action. Obama recently spent your kids' inheritance; think he can't take away the guns and knives you want to leave them as well? It nauseates me to say this, but we have to play politics better than we have been. We ALL have to start making calls, writing letters, and supporting the few candidates who are in our corner WITH CASH. We need to write letters to the editor. Every decent sized town in the USA will have a Tea Party this July 4th; be there. And if you have not joined the NRA, what are you waiting for?

Several decades back, I remember one way around this. People sold a "switchblade comb". Just like the knife above, except the blade was a skinny comb. Some kits also included a knife blade, and instructions (where permitted by law, of course) on how to swap them.

Here's what I don't get.

How is a folding knife any more dangerous than fixed blade knife?

Seriously, if a fight were to break out, a fixed blade knife would be even more dangerous since it takes exactly zero seconds to open.

I might be willing to accept laws like this if they could tell me how anyone, anyone at all is made safer by them...

...but they can't do it

Good thing my assisted opening Kershaw is made in the USA.

I agree this is stupid, I too have a Leatherman Wave that is usually with me with the thumbhole slot so you can open it with one hand. Even so, I cannot imagine anybody seriously attempting to use it as a weapon. I have knives I can snap open, including a version of that #110 in german silver and damascus steel (Old Parker Edwards Blade). That one walks and talks, but admittedly it is so precious I don't tend to take it out. I feel undressed without a knife and have carried one nearly continuously since I was 10 or 11. I have only pulled a knife once in a fight and was fortunate not to have to use it (but it was 2 to me and I needed to up the ante). People are scared of knives and usually the folks who ain't never been cut are more fearful than people who have been cut. I been cut once, and I've seen people get cut up bad and had to clean up after the EMT's left. Sometimes life in the big city gets tough in a hurry, I feel fortunate not to have to live in urban environment anymore (Ain't natural, like Ratopolis). Still bans on knives are silly, I understand the Brits have banned essentialy any blade with a point on it including kitchen knives! Bobbies don't wear Kevlar vests, they wear anti-stab vests. As they can never eliminate the supply of knives capable of stabbing people (unless the make grinders illegal too) they must intend to use it as a ploy to add additional charges to arrests and therefore be more certain of being able to convict circumstantial arrestees of Something.
There is an interesting paradigm with weapons, that is the oldest weapons of humankind never became obsolete. Men still throw rocks even in modern war. In many parts of the world hunters still carry spears, some states are even proposing Atl- Atl deer seasons. So it is with knives, the oldest kinds of knives are still created and are still used. While you wouln't find many bronze or copper blades, flint blades and obsidian blades are still being knapped and still have an edge keener than a razor. The deadliest weapon in the world isn't the AK or M4, it is the machete, which kills more every year than either 5.45 or 5.56mm bullets. Still this is no reason to ban machetes, there is no more useful tool for dense brush or jungle. Dudes in suits who never set foot in mud should never dictate what tools a working person needs to have to hand, especially merely because tribesfolk a continent away use what they have to hand for settling scores. I doubt Napolitano will ever go near the jungle in her Italian heels.
The biggest reason banning knives is dumb is because improvised weapons that outdo knives are so ready to hand. A 3 or 4 foot length of heavy chain or even just a broomstick will usually trump pocketknives any day of the week unless the knifeman has actually had some training (unlikely unless the dude is a former SEAL or Spec Ops). I went toe to toe with this Morrocan SOB once who had a damn steak knife, I had a bokken and I was ready to go to town on that b-stard and I guess he saw that look in my eye, 'cause he wilted like a flower (and remember he had the knife). But hey, I train...
At any rate the thing that wins the fight is the spirit in the fighter, weapons or not, and that is why banning one handed opening pocket knives is just unrealistic.

" Who is allowed to carry a switchblade knive? A one armed man"-
Retired cop
Really-
Is this all our legislators have to worry about? Remember the KTW or teflon coated bullets that the media hyped the publin about a few years back? How may crooks really look for these type bullets to kill with? Kinda like the crooks that actually carry switchblades!

A while back, I may or may not have owned a switch blade. After I might have had it a while, I founf that they are not dangerous unless you use them for harm. Nonetheless, after a few "close calls" with Scranton's finest (and possibly being put on probation) I decided to sell it to save myself alot of trouble. The thing is, they are fun to fool around with but after a while, they get boring and if you carry it around, alot of worrying.

Dave, are you kidding me? You mean the $40 CRKT M-16 knife I use daily to sharpen carpenters pencils, cut rope, open packages, etc. is going to be banned because I can open it with one hand? That is truly ridiculous! Our country is moving more and more toward being like England and other Socialist countries. Sorry, got to go and load more 30 round magazines...

Looks like I will have to go back to my old Case Stockman, you know the kind that breaks your thumbnail while you are trying to open the damned thing.

Ya know what I think, Aw hell, never mind, it really don't make a difference anymore now dose it? "This" is the change we can believe in. Only 3.5 more years, We can make it, we can make it, we can make it. God I hope we can make it...

That was suppose to be "close" it. Apparently I can't think sarcasm and type it at the same time.

it seems such a shame, that with all the REAL problems in this country, we have some people, that are supposed to be looking out for the well being of this country, that have all this power, and they do stupid shi* with it. it is like the C.E.O. of Boeing changing out the floor mats in the entryway of one of their airhangars. if they would put some of their energy into adressing the real problems that affect every day life in this country, instead of worrying about who can do waht with what knife, we may just be able to salvage this country. in the hands of our current leaders, it looks rather doubtful to me. so my money is going to buy gunpowder, bullets, primers, brass, and whiskey!

Yes, sir. Use the other hand to open your Motorola Flip Phone to dial 911 to get the aid car there before you bleed to death from the gunshot wounds you are about to receive for trasnsitioning the fight from knife to gun!

Butterfly knives are illegal too now? Since when? I've been carrying one for over 20 years, and have a NIB spare one if this one ever breaks, takes under 1 second to open it if you know what you are doing, unless you are one of these damn fool showoffs spinning it a few dozen times while opening it.

And really, I carry a 1911A1, why worry about the knife I carry, really?

There is only one way to comment about this government stupidity. BS-more BS. I'm a carpenter. My crew and I use our folding knives every day. For us and millions like us they are work tools. WHO IS STEERING THE SHIP!!!!!!
WHERE IS THE INTELLECT AND COMMON SENSE IN THIS GOVERNMENT?????? WHICH FOOLS OUT THESE VOTED FOR THESE IDIOTS!!!!

These dumb*ss politicians need to look in there own pocket. A set of keys or an ink pen can also be a deadly weapon if you know what you are doing with it. What will they and the lobbyist think of next. Hey wait there is an idea outlaw lobbyist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So here I am, stopped at a car accident. The women in the passenger seat is banged up and bleeding badly. I can't get the seat belt off and can't stop the bleeding in the groin. Do I stop to try to open my penknife with the tiny nail nick or do I use my imported German swithcblade? I used the fast opener, cut the belt and we were able to slow the bleeding until the EMTs got there.
True story.

I've carried a pocket knife since I was 5 or 6 yrs old as growing up on a farm it was a useful tool. I yetcarry a small case knif unless I'm hunting, then I carry a one-hand open sheath knife, as nevr know when one had will be busy and need your knife. That TSA bunch would not know a knife from a axe. Example true fax. I have 2 replaced hips and a sheet of plastic called MArlex that covers my innerds . Last fall flew to Denver, C0 and had to go to a private room and strip to prove my point. Was worse in Missoula,MT on return flight, thought I was gonna be taken to jail. Missed my flightby 2 hrs ad then had to wait 6 hrs for another flight, Airline did give me 2 l50.00 vouchers to be used in 12 months for my rouble. Only trouble is I can;t go this year and they will not extend the Vouchers for another year. The Airlines was NWA,. Hopefully can drive out next year with 2 other Buddies and forget the Damn planes. Now I understand you got to pre-check your luggage prior to checking in or more cost. Cost of luggage now is first piece is l5.00;2nd is 35 dollars; third is l00.00 and thats eac way and applies to your wife asm well. uggage now cost as much as tickets. At 74 ys old, I would like to drive out one lst time and see the screnery one last time. Shoot-um-straight and often,

Ishawooa - I'm with you. Haha. Are we seriously going to be stuck with those things? Seriously? Come on.

Seems like every knife that can be opened with one hand now-a-days is being declared illegal and extremely dangerous... maybe they will require a childproof lock and two hand operation knives next.

I for one love this bit of doubletalk. It lets us know what idiots we have 'watching out for our safety'. I sure do not want someone coming at me with one of those Kershaw "SpeedSafe" knives especially when I have my legal carry sidearm at hand which also is capable of one hand operation.Hmmmmm, I wonder about that since I also carry the dreaded one handed opening knife as second nature and use it for almost everything. Now, my quandry; what do I do ? If this happens, do I call Homeland Security to get their advice as to what I should do ? Since I have been lucky so far and it has not happened yet, do I wait until it happens and then call and explain the situation ? Will they raid my home to confiscate the fearsome one-handed opening weapon of mass destruction? Even though I know my rights with conceal carry, if I have this WMD knife also with me, does this cancel out the use of my firearm ? Perhaps calling Al Gore since both items have metals in them and their production must have contributed to global warming.. he may have the best answer of all !!!

Prior to the assault weapons ban I had no desire for that type of firearm but when the ban hit, life was no longer livable without one. Now I find myself with a burning urge for a "switchblade". Probably never take it out of the house but I still need one now.

Listen up peeps. just got to make yall aware that this isnt a ban on technology at all. its all about and have allways been about CONTROL.. the more the powers that be can control and micromanage yall the better your performances as corporate zombies are.. the more docile and sheeplike u all are.. "dont want sheep having sharp teeth and claws now do we??" gonna cause problems come fleecing time..
The means to get the control by very few people over many is to roust public support of "sensible"causes..
u can see this trend in almost all aspect of life nowadays, not just weaponry..
WAKE THE HECK UP FOLKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, why should we follow all these laws anyways? The gangsters and thugs that carry these knives and use them for bad, aren't going to follow all these laws anyways. Hello, how hard is it to figure out that no matter what lawmakers do to prohibit these things, because it is to easy to open. Come on now people, I have no idea how many times I have used my knife for things that could have been messy. For example, when I was in a car that flipped over, I used my knife to cut the jammed seatbelt. I mean come on people, knives don't kill people, people kill people.

This is an Incredibility dumb rule.

One question though. How many of you bloggers actually believe that the employees in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection change as a result of the new Presidential administration?

We continue to loose our life's control by Idiots who want to show us they Boss. I own a fewe one hand open knives for hunting along with my MARBLES Sheath knife, now I'm gonna buy a Switch Blade for the Hell of it. Go to any Flea MArket and can buy all you can carry starting at about 2.95. But like guns, I want a nice one, maybe Ivory handle and a Carbon Blade that will stay sharp. If you really want to get Pissed, try flying these days and attempt to take your hunting gear on that plane. By far cheaper and Insured to ship by UPS or Fed X and no questions asked as of contents. Who ever heard of checking your luggage prior to you checking in and get your boarding pass. Never will I ship my guns unless it goes on the plane with me, and it very well could if TSA gives you a hard time and delays allowing you to pass. Your Guns could be in Tim_BUCK-2 and you in Denver or port of Orgin. Back to switch blades, I thought Switch Blades were standard attair fo a certan segement of our society. Bet 99% have one Now, shoot-um-straight and throw that switch blade straight as well. Look out, here comes Rambo Jr.

O but what fun to read about all the dumb asses we got on this Blog including me.But is yet better than watching the re-runs of years gon3 by. Reminds me I'm gonna get as want to see the re-run of Lonesome Dove.