Who do you want to win the US elections?

[stitch626]

and utility reasons

Should I be worried?

[Duskofdead]

I have two display-only swords and two sharpened ones. I believe the sharp ones are not "authentic" in the $5,000 dollar sense, but they are more than sharp enough to do serious damage. You wouldn't want to run your finger lengthwise on it. I have a big army knife and it feels sharper than the army knife, though of course I haven't tested it, haha.

[Tsukiyumi]

and utility reasons

Should I be worried?

Well, I'd assume from your online demeanor that you wouldn't attack me in real life, so, no. No reason at all. Criminals breaking into my house on the other hand... The business end of that bayonet is quite sharp. As is my Rambo-style combat knife, and my 4-inch Gerber that I always carry on my belt...

Bullets probably sting as well...

[stitch626]

Gerber?
Are you refering to the baby food?

[Tsukiyumi]

Gerber?
Are you refering to the baby food?

It'd be hilarious if they were the same company, but no.

Gerber Knives

[stitch626]

Oh.
Cool, though I'm not a knife person (or any sharp object, for that matter; more likely to cut myself than what I intend to).

[Mikey]

A word to the wise, Dusk - don't bring your x-bow to NJ. Not legal here for display, hunting, anything. Rifles are at least legal for range shooting, but not hunting. Population density, you know.

Dusk and Tsu - when you say "army" or "Rambo-style" knives, do you mean Kabar knives? Because they are beautifully made tools. I'm not a collector or anything - the only knife I own is a wood-handled hunting knife that's been in my family for generations, with a motto inscribed in Polish - but I know Kabars. The first time I met the man who would later become my father-in-law, he began telling me about his embassy duty while in the Corps in Beirut in the '50's... and how he had to kill a man while on said duty... and then, how he wasn't allowed to do it with a firearm, just his Kabar knife.

Interestingly enough, I still ended up getting married.

[Tsukiyumi]

A word to the wise, Dusk - don't bring your x-bow to NJ. Not legal here for display, hunting, anything. Rifles are at least legal for range shooting, but not hunting. Population density, you know.

Dusk and Tsu - when you say "army" or "Rambo-style" knives, do you mean Kabar knives? Because they are beautifully made tools. I'm not a collector or anything - the only knife I own is a wood-handled hunting knife that's been in my family for generations, with a motto inscribed in Polish - but I know Kabars. The first time I met the man who would later become my father-in-law, he began telling me about his embassy duty while in the Corps in Beirut in the '50's... and how he had to kill a man while on said duty... and then, how he wasn't allowed to do it with a firearm, just his Kabar knife.

Interestingly enough, I still ended up getting married.

You must be quite respectable for someone like that to let you marry their daughter.

I wish I had a Ka-bar, or even better, a Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife; mine's a survival/combat knife of medium quality. At least the blade is carbon steel, and it has a waterproof hollowed hilt to hold crap like fishing wire, matches, etc. and a compass (though I honestly don't need one) . The bayonet, on the other hand, is 14 inches of purpose-designed killing power.

[Teaos]

On the topic of knife are flick knifes illegal over there? They are here and I find that a little odd.

[Mikey]

Depends on the locality and the concealed weapon laws; they certainly are in my area.

[stitch626]

Same here. Doesn't mean people don't have them.

[Mikey]

Yep - in my youth (when I lived in a more urban area) I carried a collapsible blackjack. It wasn't legal, but could certainly cause more pain and trauma than a knife.

[sunnyside]

I think the switchblade laws came about due to their popularity with gangs at the time.

[Teaos]

Its a shame since they are interesting knifes. On a related point knuckle dusters are illegal to sell here but not to own. An easy law to get around for someone who works with metal...

[Mikey]

Do they really help, though? I ask as someone who has buvkled sheet metal with his own fist - the skin on your knuckles may bleed a little, but to the brass knuckles really add that much?