Legal in Canada?

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roninair

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Hi Eric ,how can I get a Delica without a hole ,I THINK it would be legal in Canada as we would need 2 hands to open it ?
 
roninair said:
Hi Eric ,how can I get a Delica without a hole ,I THINK it would be legal in Canada as we would need 2 hands to open it ?
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A folding knife without a hole would not be a Spyderco knife and hence not a Delica. That said, I guess you can weld a piece of metal to that hole to make it holeless?
 
A Delica, as it currently exists, IS legal in Canada.

I know folks are divided on this, but I still believe the concern in Canada, as far as CBSA is concerned, is regarding "flick" or "gravity" knives. Flippers and compression lock knives fall into that as well.

I have yet to hear of a lockback being confiscated. I have yet to see a lockback "flicked" open. If I am mistaken, I apologize, but I have not had any problems with importing lockbacks into Canada, and I've imported 5 of them since the ruling change.

If you're concerned, why not buy from the retailers within Canada who still stock Spydercos.
 
FourD said:
A Delica, as it currently exists, IS legal in Canada.

I know folks are divided on this, but I still believe the concern in Canada, as far as CBSA is concerned, is regarding "flick" or "gravity" knives. Flippers and compression lock knives fall into that as well.

I have yet to hear of a lockback being confiscated. I have yet to see a lockback "flicked" open. If I am mistaken, I apologize, but I have not had any problems with importing lockbacks into Canada, and I've imported 5 of them since the ruling change.

If you're concerned, why not buy from the retailers within Canada who still stock Spydercos.
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YouTube is full of videos of people flicking Delicas and Natives. Some can get theirs to drop-shut, my own is rather tight but with a little wrist action and deliberation I can finger flick it.
 
Hi Rononair,

I'm not Eric, but Customs opens the blade partially using the thumb and middle finger of the same hand. Just enough so they can then flick it, and so it is also prohibitive.

sal
 
Get the pivot cranked down.
At my local gun shop (which is an authorized Benchmade dealer...Spyderco too, as far as I know), they get their knife pivots cranked down to the point they barely open with two hands. Then, they loosen them at the shop when they have them.
No seizures of knives, including the ones with flippers that just came in. :)
 
Sal Glesser said:
Hi Rononair,

I'm not Eric, but Customs opens the blade partially using the thumb and middle finger of the same hand. Just enough so they can then flick it, and so it is also prohibitive.

sal
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Thanks Sal,I had read if you can open 1 handed it would be prohibitive,
 
One handed openers are not illegal in Canada, but somehow our Canadian Border Services has unilaterally decided that it is illegal to import "flick knives". This means, as Sal has stated, that if they can partially open a knife with one hand, then "flick" the blade the rest of the way open, it cannot enter Canada. I am unsure how CSBS took the power to interpret what can and cannot enter the country with regard to knives, but in my opinion, this is wrong, and makes absolutely no sense. I believe it originally dates back to the "switchblade act" of the late 50's, another piece of outdated legislation. We can carry fixed blades of any length if our intent is use it peacefully, but God forbid, we let in folder that some gorilla armed Border Guard can flick open from a half open position.
 
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