2-dot "anti-gravity" question

[bertl]

"Common knowledge" says that the 2-dot 110 was in response to California knife laws. Does anyone know of a specific court case involving Buck and gravity knives, or was the 2-dot a general response to California regulations. If there was a specific case, does anyone have a reference?

 

[knarfeng]

I have a Buck 110 that I got in the late 60's when I was in high school. Except for a couple of years when I lived in Iowa in the 80's, I have always lived in California.

To my knowledge, my Buck has always been legal to carry in the state of California.

If it ain't, send me a biscuit when I get put in the hoosegow.

 

[BG42EDGE]

Here's a start:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...527925&highlight=gravity+open+110#post7527925

 

[BG42EDGE]

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...647749&highlight=gravity+open+110#post3647749

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...313589&highlight=gravity+open+110#post3313589

 

[skyhorse]

To the best of my knowledge the Buck 110 has always been legal to carry in California.I did hear they want to ban Mcdonalds happy meals in San Fransico.I guess they would prefer children to have misery meals.

 

[Mitch W.]

I just got home and found I can grab the blade on both a 1967 inverted 1-liner and a 2005 110 and flick them open.

 

[Pack Rat]

Flicking a 110 open by holding the blade and doing a drop motion of the frame, isn't what the gravity thing was about.

At one time there were some models that if you worked the blade a little loose and oiled the blade pivot, you could hold the frame and flick the blade open. Some of those supposedly wouldn't hold the blade fully closed in your pocket.

That may be covered better in the links bg42 posted. I didn't go look.

Reminds me of a series of books by Donald Hamilton, whose character Mat Helm describes what sounds like a 110, where he works the blade pivot to the point that he could flick it open. I read those when I was in the service in the mid 60's.

Thus me learning how to grip the blade and flick/drop the frame and open my 110's since my first two dot back in the 70's. Interestingly enough, I have never been cut opening one that way.