Chris_Malcolm
Naughty But Arguably Innocent Knife
It used to be the case in the UK that any pocket knife with a blade exceeding 3" in length (with a rather vague definition of how you measured a blade), or in which the blade was lockable, was ipso facto a prosecutable dangerous weapon. To escape prosecution you had to argue successfully that you had a legitimate reason for carrying it, such as that it was a tool of your trade, and you were in transit between home and plying your trade.
No doubt things are going to get even sillier now that knifing people has become fashionable in certain teenage circles.
Having grown up in the old days when schoolboys were encouraged to carry knives and to know how to use and care for them I usually have a knife in my pocket. And having learned by finger-scarring experience what happens when a folding knife folds up on your hand that knife is always a locking knife. And because I sometimes dangle from ropes for fun or profit I like that knife also to be easily openable with one hand. The police regard one-hand opening to be only slightly short of being a flick knife in terms of culpable lethality.
It's easier to argue that your knife is a tool rather than a weapon if it's a multi-tool. I believe this Spyderwrench to be the only multi-tool with a one-hand opening locking blade. It's not a particularly good multi-tool, but it's possibly the best knife with multi-tool capabilities.
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Naughty But Arguably Innocent Knife
It used to be the case in the UK that any pocket knife with a blade exceeding 3" in length (with a rather vague definition of how you measured a blade), or in which the blade was lockable, was ipso facto a prosecutable dangerous weapon. To escape prosecution you had to argue successfully that you had a legitimate reason for carrying it, such as that it was a tool of your trade, and you were in transit between home and plying your trade.
No doubt things are going to get even sillier now that knifing people has become fashionable in certain teenage circles.
Having grown up in the old days when schoolboys were encouraged to carry knives and to know how to use and care for them I usually have a knife in my pocket. And having learned by finger-scarring experience what happens when a folding knife folds up on your hand that knife is always a locking knife. And because I sometimes dangle from ropes for fun or profit I like that knife also to be easily openable with one hand. The police regard one-hand opening to be only slightly short of being a flick knife in terms of culpable lethality.
It's easier to argue that your knife is a tool rather than a weapon if it's a multi-tool. I believe this Spyderwrench to be the only multi-tool with a one-hand opening locking blade. It's not a particularly good multi-tool, but it's possibly the best knife with multi-tool capabilities.
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