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Has anyone bought the knife/gun shown here http://www.inlect.com/index.html
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A Gun/Knife Combo
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Has anyone bought the knife/gun shown here http://www.inlect.com/index.html
Surely this is a very clever practical joke!! RIGHT???? I have never heard of a gun/knife combination. I think I'll just keep it simple and carry one of each. Why would you even want a nice knife with a gun mechanism built into it? Especially a .22 Caliber. I mean unless you just want to piss someone off before you stab them. Who knows? Just my opinion!!!!!
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A few months ago, a gentleman who hailed from the former Soviet Union came to my day job office in Glendale, CA, to order an electric knife sharpener, which I got for him. He said it was for a knife-gun combination, and I'll bet dollars to donuts that the above link is to his web page.
I told him to check CA law carefully before making unorthodox firearms here, and he said it was to be manufactured in Nevada.
I also told him that I had never seen, up close or in a book, a knife-gun combination that wasn't either a bad knife or a bad gun, or both. The rifle/musket-spear combination made tactical sense for a couple of centuries or more, but a knife-pistol has always been a novelty.
What I see of this latest attempt does not interest me enough to order the video, let alone the object itself.
As a knife it could be a usable knife, as long as one doesn't push the limitations of that stubby tang, a common criticism of all hollow-handled fixed blades other than Chris Reeve's. I suppose it could be at least as sturdily built as a good folder.
But, by making the handle an acceptable shape for a knife handle, they have made it a pretty useless (and apparently sightless) pistol for any distance beyond knife reach. So why bother with the pistol?
And if you're using it as a knife, either for mundane cutting or in a fight, that pistol will be all the time pointing in all sorts of directions, many of them unsafe!
Perhaps their rhodium & gold plate Y2K model ("limited edition of 3,000") would be the ultimate single-use tyranicide weapon. Whether there are 3,000 people who would want to pay $2,000 for one is another matter, but, after you assassinate the tyrant, it would look impressive being held up to the CNN camera, while you go off to the Highest Court to find out whether or not you were really doing God's work.
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I told him to check CA law carefully before making unorthodox firearms here, and he said it was to be manufactured in Nevada.
I also told him that I had never seen, up close or in a book, a knife-gun combination that wasn't either a bad knife or a bad gun, or both. The rifle/musket-spear combination made tactical sense for a couple of centuries or more, but a knife-pistol has always been a novelty.
What I see of this latest attempt does not interest me enough to order the video, let alone the object itself.
As a knife it could be a usable knife, as long as one doesn't push the limitations of that stubby tang, a common criticism of all hollow-handled fixed blades other than Chris Reeve's. I suppose it could be at least as sturdily built as a good folder.
But, by making the handle an acceptable shape for a knife handle, they have made it a pretty useless (and apparently sightless) pistol for any distance beyond knife reach. So why bother with the pistol?
And if you're using it as a knife, either for mundane cutting or in a fight, that pistol will be all the time pointing in all sorts of directions, many of them unsafe!
Perhaps their rhodium & gold plate Y2K model ("limited edition of 3,000") would be the ultimate single-use tyranicide weapon. Whether there are 3,000 people who would want to pay $2,000 for one is another matter, but, after you assassinate the tyrant, it would look impressive being held up to the CNN camera, while you go off to the Highest Court to find out whether or not you were really doing God's work.
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- JKM
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Actually gun/knife combinations go back nearly as far as personal-carry firearms. The idea of the Bayonet caught-on early, and there are many examples of handgun-knife combinations. The idea is that the handgun is close-quarters as is the knife, they were usually blades extending out along the top of the barrel. Stab, then shoot.
Check out THE GUN, ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT by Greener. I'm at work now, and don't have the book with me to give actual names and dates of the weapons.
In some recent knife mag, I recall seeing a photo of a Spetznaz "survival knife" that had a rudimentary chamber/barrel to fire from the handle.
Check out THE GUN, ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT by Greener. I'm at work now, and don't have the book with me to give actual names and dates of the weapons.
In some recent knife mag, I recall seeing a photo of a Spetznaz "survival knife" that had a rudimentary chamber/barrel to fire from the handle.
This thing reminds me of something that James Bond would have packed around with him.
Also I know that bayonets are pretty common on military weapons, but a gun/knife combination. I can see the headlines now " Four Innocent Bystanders Shot to Death While Watching a Street Fight".
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The bayonet on a long gun goes back a long way, and has seen a lot of continuous use as a mainstream weapon, even into the age of repeating firearms. Knife-pistol combinations also go back a very long time, but they have always been novelties.
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Hi y'all,
There is already a big thread about this contraption on the Auto forum, but I guess it has more place here seeing as neither the knife or the gun are automatic.
When I first saw it I thought to myself the only useful purpose of that thing is to stab a animal/human and fire the bullets into it/them. I mean sure it would impress the guys at the firing range and the gun and knife shows, but the accuracy probably stinks (no dime size groups at 50' with this puppy!) and there are more practical blades to carry that won't get you arrested. Also the thing ways a pound and I perfer lighter knives for daily use. If I used that thing daily I would be afraid I would be chopping lettuce with it and it would go off and hurt someone. (possibly even me!
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Anyway I guess it would be fun to have as a novelty, but personally I would rather have a ballistic knife. ( http://www.bladeauction.com/os/itemhtml/ht513701.shtml?513701 ) Just as illegal, but IMO alot more "practical".
LMAO!
Later,
John
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There is already a big thread about this contraption on the Auto forum, but I guess it has more place here seeing as neither the knife or the gun are automatic.
When I first saw it I thought to myself the only useful purpose of that thing is to stab a animal/human and fire the bullets into it/them. I mean sure it would impress the guys at the firing range and the gun and knife shows, but the accuracy probably stinks (no dime size groups at 50' with this puppy!) and there are more practical blades to carry that won't get you arrested. Also the thing ways a pound and I perfer lighter knives for daily use. If I used that thing daily I would be afraid I would be chopping lettuce with it and it would go off and hurt someone. (possibly even me!
Anyway I guess it would be fun to have as a novelty, but personally I would rather have a ballistic knife. ( http://www.bladeauction.com/os/itemhtml/ht513701.shtml?513701 ) Just as illegal, but IMO alot more "practical".
LMAO!
Later,
John
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Nope, its ten bucks!
Later,
John
Later,
John