Pocket Knives?

I was wondering, how many of you carry a pocket knife ALL the time and not just when you are doing outdoor activities? If you carry, what kind or kinds do you carry?

More later but first I want to know how common it is among this group. I will say this, I only carry a pocket knife when I have pants on.

 

Don't be ridiculous. It's illegal to carry a pocket knife in Australia.

https://www.news.com.au/national/qu...e/news-story/b60a5a55f23c963d99c3555237b85a88

 

Hahahaha. Yeah, I know. I remember when we were in the UK and some bloke got pulled up for having a chainsaw. I couldn't believe it then. But now look where Australia is.

 

Really? How did they know it was in his car? Did they search it?

 

I would feel butt naked if I was without my knife. How do you cut rope or string or do any of the multitude of things that I regularly do with my pocket knife. How do you clean fish without a knife. ???? How could a once great people allow themselves to be stripped of all rights???

 

Attempting to castrate the populace is grounds for a shooting war. Control-freak neurotic government officials should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town. My people would have done this, or put a rope around their neck and dangled them from a old tree with a strong limb.

I'm NEVER without a pocket knife with a lock blade. I keep an edge on my best knives such that you could shave with them. I'm just looking around the web now, but I've got a .38 snub in my pocket loaded with hot wadcutters (which, unfortunately, lead the barrel after only a couple of dozen rounds being fired). Thing about wadcutters is that they are great at cutting blood vessels -- to include arteries. No gas checks, so you get horribly leaded lands in the rifling = bristle brush and anti-leading bore cleaner. I got a guy to load a few hundred of these and he loaded them way too hot. Oh well ... .

And oh, by the by, I CONSTANTLY use my pocket knives. The ones with a serrated edge are dynamite wire-strippers. One never has their wire-strippers within reach when holding an insulated wire, so it's gotta be a flick-open Kershaw lock-blade knife with a serrated edge. I'm constantly sharpening these puppies. I beat-up my knives pretty bad. Electricians and electronics guys have the dullest knives. I guess I should say that I TRY to keep my little friends sharpened. I often use them as paper-cutters because I sure don't have scissors nearby, or they are penny shears used by ER staff and EMS folk. Serrated edge pocket knives are also necessary for cutting seat belts to extract motor vehicle accident victims. A non-serrated edge knife won't cut a seat-belt unless it is dangerous sharp. I've got a Spanish Muela and it is dangerously sharp -- it gives me the willies.

 

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=muela+knives&atb=v140-1&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

 

Slowly, insiduously, gradually, until it became normal. That's how.

I was listening to that American dude, Tucker something or other (Carlson?). He rambled on about how Australians actually like being stripped of their freedom as it's part of their culture, being convicts. I nearly pissed myself laughing. I tried to find it again to show a friend but can't find it. Really annoying.

 

Ooooh, that first picture looks EXACTLY like the knife I bought for my husband years ago. It was a rope cutting knife. Really, really good knife. He loved all manner of weapons, knives, swords, you name it. If you can kill with it, he loved it. I got my passions from him. I do carry one of my husband's machetes in the car (sssshhhh ... don't tell anyone) which I hide. I also have a WW2 bayonet which I keep in the kitchen. I used it last year to stuff stuff under the bedroom door to stop a red bellied black which the dog had alerted me to, from coming into the bedroom. Bastard snake.

 

For a lot of years I carried a buck 110 folding hunter. Honestly it was a great knife in a fight. You didn't even need to open it. Just hold it in your hand and pop someone in the head with the butt end of it and the fight is over.

I wouldn't be able to guess to the nearest 50 how many knives I have. I collect them, make them and carry them habitually. Fortunaty I live in a place where people are free and can not just own but carry and use a knife in selfdefence. It is funny how many people just go weak at the thought of getting cut and in my younger days my knife saved my butt more than once. Even with 4 or 5 to 1 odds if you show a knife and offer to gut the first on to get close to you I've never had to actually do it.

There was a time whe I was younger when I seemed to just attract asshats by the bunches. I guess that I am a little crazy...or at least can come off looking that way. I would slide my knife out shave a little hair off my arm and grin. "Today might be a good day to die. Who wants to dance?" They would look into my baby blue eyes and see that I was deadly serious and totally lacking in fear. Honestly I, at that time in my life, didn't really care if I died as long as I could take and escort through the gates of hell with me.

I carry a gun and a knife now. I got a carry permit but now in Texas you don't need one. Texas honors the Second amendment and all our citizens have the legal right to keep AND BEAR arms. The interesting thing is that even with hundreds of thousands of us carrying guns there are less shootings here than in states with very restrictive gun laws. Whoda thunkit??

I guess that the bad guys are made a little less agressive when any Granny or PawPaw can and will blow their ass AWAY if they bother them. Women especially have taken to carrying a gun and don't have to live in fear.

 

Crikey, I can't imagine what it must be like living in the US of A. To be able to carry a firearm in the street? Wow! That is so mind blowing.

 

You don't see my gun. I carry it in an inside the waist band of my pants holster. The only way anyone will ever see it is when I pull it out and shoot someone in selfdefence. It isn't there to be used as a threat EVER. As many guns as there are around now I still have yet to see one pulled out except to show it to someone and comparing guns. The best gun is the one that you NEVER have to use.

People are pretty peaceful and aware that if you threaten someone you may not like what that could cause. I know a little old lady and you would NOT believe the heat that woman is packing in her purse. I had never seen a snubnosed 44 mag before!!! It was her husbands and she started carrying it after he died. They used to shoot a lot together so she is more than just competant with it.

 

"An armed society is a polite society."

"God made all men, large and small. Samuel Colt made them equals."

Where I'm from, the murder rate used to be the same as Japan's murder rate, two per 100,000 population per year. Greater than 90% of homes have multiple firearms. Then the drug trade came along. A major interstate highway came through and the trade between inner cities opened-up that hellish business locally.

Americans of European heritage have the same murder rates as Europeans in Europe. Here in Hearland America, the crime rates are low. Burglars DEEPLY AVOID breaking into occupied homes due to the very nasty risk of getting themselves shot. Around here, if you nuke a home-invader, you will be taken into custody, released the next day, and not be charged with any crime. Juries around here would never award the family any of your money should you be sued by those low-breeds.
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Sane, but weak, people follow invalid communist dictates.

Felons and crazy people do not follow laws of any sort.

https://nypost.com/2021/10/31/deranged-man-stabs-10-people-aboard-tokyo-commuter-train/

"A knife-wielding man dressed as the Joker went on a crazed rampage aboard a Tokyo commuter train Sunday, stabbing at least 17 people and starting a fire before finally being taken into custody.

"The unidentified attacker brandished a knife and began slashing passengers aboard the crowded Keio train near the Kokuryo station while wearing the Batman villain’s costume, NHK News said in a report."

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Ban steel! Ban grinding wheels!

Knives made in prisons:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=knives+made+in+prison&atb=v140-1&iax=images&ia=images

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Fireable firearms made in prisons:

https://www.toptenz.net/10-crazy-improvised-prison-weapons.php




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https://9gag.com/gag/a5NG9MN?ref=pn

 

continued from above

http://www.marcsteinmetz.com/pages/fluchtstuecke/efluchtstuecke_minis.html

Shotgun made from bedposts:



Prison-made gunpowder:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=prison-made+gunpowder&atb=v140-1&ia=web

"Brewing Up Gunpowder With Household Products"

https://hackaday.com/2012/03/06/brewing-up-gunpowder-with-household-products/