Have you ever had a knife confiscated?

My wife forgot her SAK in her bag at the airport right after 9/11. I bought her a new one at our 6 month anniversary.
 
Once (90ties) on a domestic flight in Mexico the guard at the airport took my SAK.
He handed it to the tour guide, who put it in his bag and took it on the plane.
At the end of the trip I got it back.
 
Three times I can recall.

First, TSA once found a little SAK in my backpack. It didn't hurt too much to let it go so I told them to just keep it.

Second, went to a baseball game with my boss and a few colleagues after work. I did not expect metal detectors at the door (as there had been none one or 2 years prior) and had to surrender my Knives of Alaska folding caper. I offered it to the girl running security but she made me put it in a locked drop box. I would have just gone home but I was an intern at the time and didn't want to cause any fuss.

Third, was coerced into going to a music festival a couple years ago and had to dump my mini barrage in a drop box. I was more annoyed than anything else because (i) security had never been as tight before, and (ii) half of the attendees sailed through security with weed, mdma, etc. without any issues. I make no comment on the morality of drug laws, I just don't like being penalized for legal behavior while others get a free pass for illegal behavior.

I have since managed to ditch other knives in landscaping and recover them after a few unavoidable and unexpectedly "secure" events. Now I make a habit of carrying a cheap Opinel if I think there is a remote chance of a security checkpoint.
 
Just had bought my girlfriend a pink dragonfly, on her way to Dallas she had it confiscated at our local airport.

Don't think she ever had a chance to use it!
 
Almost had an Italian Switchblade confiscated at the airport. I had forgot about it and left it boxed in my over full brief case. They found it. I checked the brief case in as luggage.

Numerous times I have had to got back to my vehicle or stash a SAK because of courthouse metal detectors. They are good about it, you just can't bring it in "here".
 
I am sure texting while driving is killing more folks here in Canada then pocket knives are but the police don't confiscate the cellphone even when they catch someone in the act. Steep fine, but you keep your phone.

Funny world.

,,,Mike in Canada
 
Only once. Reporting for boot camp back in 79 or 80. They took everything civilian including asprin, tums, my broken tipped Camillus barlow knife and whatever else I had. Some of the other guys on the bus had booze, weed, all kinds of stuff. Someone probably went through the box and kept what they wanted and threw away the rest. Back when knives on airplanes were legal a guard in Mexico wanted to confiscate my knife but I said it was legal and told them the blade was under the legal length and they let me keep it. A courthouse cop made me take my knife back to the car or they would keep it so I walked back almost a mile to the car ( parking sucks there) rather than give up my Endura.

Joe
 
i've taken a few back to the car, mostly at a courthouse or sporting event
I stashed one in my boots to avoid a ridiculous walk back to the car at a college football game once.

another time, to avoid a long walk in DC, I showed it to the guy at the door as we entered one of the museums. he shrugged at me, said " what knife", and we went on in

never been confiscated though
 
One time me and a bunch of friends in my car got pulled over. I can’t remember their reasoning for it. There was 3 or 4 cops.

They asked if I had any weapons on me, I said no just my pocket knife which was a Paragon automatic. He asked me how to open it so I told him and he acted shocked. LoL.

They had us sit on the curb. The cop that took the knife told me he could take it away, destroy it and give me a ticket or just take it away and destroy it. I said just take it.

He walked over to the other cops and was talking to them about it then comes back and hands it to me and then says we can leave.

I was shocked but very happy.
 
jeepin said:
One time me and a bunch of friends in my car got pulled over. I can’t remember their reasoning for it. There was 3 or 4 cops.

They asked if I had any weapons on me, I said no just my pocket knife which was a Paragon automatic. He asked me how to open it so I told him and he acted shocked. LoL.

They had us sit on the curb. The cop that took the knife told me he could take it away, destroy it and give me a ticket or just take it away and destroy it. I said just take it.

He walked over to the other cops and was talking to them about it then comes back and hands it to me and then says we can leave.

I was shocked but very happy.
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“Destroyed”

Yeah usually when a cop who knows nothing about knives “confiscates” it, it does end up getting destroyed. First he snaps the tip off the he leaves it wet and it rusts.

Give that cop about 2 weeks of using the knife and it will be “destroyed.”
 
Lapedog said:
“Destroyed”

Yeah usually when a cop who knows nothing about knives “confiscates” it, it does end up getting destroyed. First he snaps the tip off the he leaves it wet and it rusts.

Give that cop about 2 weeks of using the knife and it will be “destroyed.”
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Yup.
 
The Mastiff said:
Only once. Reporting for boot camp back in 79 or 80. They took everything civilian including asprin, tums, my broken tipped Camillus barlow knife and whatever else I had. Some of the other guys on the bus had booze, weed, all kinds of stuff. Someone probably went through the box and kept what they wanted and threw away the rest. Back when knives on airplanes were legal a guard in Mexico wanted to confiscate my knife but I said it was legal and told them the blade was under the legal length and they let me keep it. A courthouse cop made me take my knife back to the car or they would keep it so I walked back almost a mile to the car ( parking sucks there) rather than give up my Endura.

Joe
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When my dad reported to ft Bliss back in '78 his small Buck was confiscated and he ended up finding it on the captains desk. He took it back but eventually traded it or sold it to a friend.
 
Yeah. On the way to Edison Elementary School in Appleton, Wisconsin, on junk day when I was in first or second grade (people used to put their junk out on the curb back in the 50s) I found a cool, white handled straight razor in an old bureau drawer. Showed it around at school and played with it all day, but when I got home my parents confiscated it. Never saw it again. Sniff!
 
Yes.

I was being grabbed, punched, and kicked by 4 to 5 guys in a bar b/c I was looking for their buddies who were in a gang, so I drew my folder TO MY RIGHT HIP, yelled KNIFE, and walked out the door. They called the cops, and I had to give up my knife at that time. Not much more than that to the story except I had no money for a lawyer and did not know abt USCCA and Knife Rights. I'll become a member of USCCA before I ever carry again.
 
An old man in a nursing home I worked at had his lawyer give me an early Randall bowie type because he wanted his knives used, that sort of was a big influence on me. I went to Alaska with it on a hunt and ended up giving to they older kid who the elders from the village to keep an eye on me. His knife looked like a Rapala type fish fillet knife it was sharpened for over a century I bet! I had my cheap Chinese "Bowie" knife I used mostly for tending the fire with. When I got back his family was in a huff "Gramps" gave a few of "THEIR" collections away, and had a "Private Recovery" agent break in to my car and "Recover" the bowie! The cheap Chinese knife I had. (Way early chinese cheap one!) The old man was happy some one else was getting more real use out out of it and loved the pics I took of the kid/youngman using it. His family never did get that Randal and I never got my "Big Bowie!" back. The old man did make his nephew pay for my new car window though and the "Recovery Agent" who wore an "ENFORCEMENT" vest got disuaded from doing a B&E on my apartment. I did get a few nice Buck knives later on for X-mass form a "Secret Santa". And some one kept a wall of pictures of HIS former collection items of people he gave them to for the short time he had left he liked looking at them.

That was the most memorable "Confiscation" I had.
 
You would think I would know that I can't carry a knife into a court house. But honestly, some court houses allow such things still and don't have metal detectors at the entrance. So, unless you have been their before, having a knife on you may not matter.

I've taken knives into a Federal Courthouse a couple of times when I have done jobs. Same goes with regular court houses where knives aren't allowed. I was escorted around the metal detectors. They are part of my tool set basically.
 
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