Collecting Knives vs. Collecting Firearms

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Hal said:
With the current events going on in our country at the moment - my best estimate of the future direction of anything that looks like it could scare someone - is that it's sure to be banned.
It's been headed that direction for decades though & everyone chose to ignore it.

Best possible example of how this fear overcomes reality?

Safety - a fixed blade is arguably the safest type of knife, followed by a folding knife with a strong lock.
Three guesses through which two knives the Cub Scouts ban?
The Scouts would rather see kids injured or maimed. Just as long as it didn't look scary.

Another?
The Bali Song/Butterfly knife. Safest folder type ever. There is no way that mechanism can close on the user.
BUT - since you can twirl them around & it looks scary - they are illegal in a whole lot of places.

Switchblades/autos? same story there. As my late mother used to say, "I don't like the way that knife "jumps" out".

Oh well - like I've said all along - I'm glad I'm old and going to die soon. I hate what those people have done to my fine country.
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Then there's Scotty Fulton in Kentucky who has amassed a collection of about 12,000 deadly hammers. And other things.

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sgt1372 said:
I "collected" firearms (mainly handguns) for many years during the 80's and 90's.

Owned around 50 many rare and unusual handguns but it got to the point that I thought it was stupid to own so many guns that I didn't actually shoot. So, I sold off almost the entire collection at wholesale to a dealer but, even so, I still own over 2 dozen firearms -- around 12 handguns, 6 rifles and 6 shotguns. Still have too many firearms at that but they cover the range of firearms that I would shoot and I'm happy where the "collection" stands now.

For the reasons mentioned by the OP and my own, I switched to collecting knives and now stand in the same position with them as I did w/guns. I have too many of them, having collected over 330 knives in just 2 short years. As with guns, I'm also in the same position of considering selling off the bulk of the collection -- mostly cheaper Kershaws and CRKTs that I acquired when I 1st started. I really don't care how much I get for them, I just don't need them and would prefer that they be gone. Will probably act on that shortly.

Now that I have more knives that I could possibly need/use, my attention has now switched to building a collection of scotch and bourbon whiskeys and have increased my collection of those from just a few select bottles (around 6 scotch and 4 bourbon) to a premium collection of 32 bottles of scotch and 20 bottles of bourbon in just a few months and I'm not done yet (at least as far as the scotch -- my preferred hard liquor -- is concerned).

Being an inveterate collector of "things" (I also own a large collection of artwork and art objects, high end audio equipment - I have 3 setups, 1600 jazz LPs and my 4 sports cars -- other then my SUV and truck -- plus all of the weight lifting gear in my garage and Cross fit equipment in my backyard and the spin bike and rower in my house) once I'm done w/collecting booze, I'll find something else to spend my $ on.

BTW, that's not to mention the baseball card and memorabilia collection that I accumulated in the 80's that I valued at about $50k but sold to a dealer in a single lot for $25k not too long ago.

The "fun" to a collector like me is in "hunt" in trying to find things to add to your collection.

The further along you get, the more difficult it is to find the things you want/need to fill out the collection. The $ actually doesn't matter as much. At least not to me.

LOL! ;)
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Your post is very interesting. A long time ago a wise sage advised me to "quit coveting them, and start enjoying them!" when it came to firearms. That advice resonated strongly with me, but I didn't necessarily follow it. I continued to accumulate (and enjoy them.)

One day a bibliophile friend was perusing my extensive library and said that we all need to be careful. That we can transition from lovers of books and our libraries to prisoners of them without really realizing it. Keeping them cataloged, cleaned, safely stored, etc. I thought about that hard in terms of firearms. I bought about a half dozen more and realized that I have far, far more than sufficient -- it took decades to get to that stage.

Nowadays I'll buy something if it's truly something innovative that I don't own, or it someone offers me a deal I just can't walk a way from. Otherwise when it comes to firearms I'm truly content.

I do appreciate that to you, it's the hunt, not necessarily the meat on the table... :cool:
 
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Hopefully not but we could be headed that way. Their sights are set on firearms first but they will try to get to blades in time. I honestly believe we have more time than that.


Batleship said:
Look at England's knife laws and that will be us in 10 years
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3fifty7 said:
Hopefully not but we could be headed that way. Their sights are set on firearms first but they will try to get to blades in time. I honestly believe we have more time than that.
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The only anti-knife legislation I could imagine would be treating flippers as automatics. The problem with that is there must literally be tens of millions of flippers already in peoples' hand.

The other issue would be banning blades that lock, or treating them like fixed blades. I can't imagine that happening. At least not in the next 20-30 years, again, because so many are already commonly owned.
 
This is the wrong forum for political what-iffing.

The OP started this thread out on the wrong foot and it's gone off from there.

The OP can post the same query in the political forum if he wishes.
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Knife Rights has done a fantastic job of undoing some goofy knife laws. Currently, there are a lot more states allowing automatic knives that didn't just 5 years ago. A great deal of that has to do with the efforts of KR and the ubiquitous popularity of the assisted folder launching an edc size/shape blade using spring tension over a full automatic mechanism.

I have 1000s of dollars worth of firearms spanning 12 years or so. I have 100,000 in cutlery spanning 30+ years. Currently, guns are not longer on my radar. I have enough and can't feed them as it is. Truthfully, the edc knive in my pocket is more than my carry gun costs. Knife knut all the way.
 
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