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Why don't they just measure the handle of the closed knife? The blade cannot really be longer than the handle?
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True, but depending on state laws dictate how the blade is measured ie; from pivot, sharpened blade length, from front of scales, from ricasso. Each one of those are used by different states to show the blade length, but that means one individual knife can now have four differing blade lengths.
None of those stated ways in which the blade can be measured can be checked with 100% certainty while closed.
Plus don't forget, those in the position to measure and issue a ticket for blade length often see themselves as superior or in a position of power and due to that tend to "know better" than us plebians.
None of those stated ways in which the blade can be measured can be checked with 100% certainty while closed.
Plus don't forget, those in the position to measure and issue a ticket for blade length often see themselves as superior or in a position of power and due to that tend to "know better" than us plebians.
I did not get the idea they were checking for illegal knives, simply knives that they object to. If that is the case they can define their own procedure. They currently make the guards open sharp objects. I'd just say, "Measure the closed knife and reject any longer than X."
I actually worked at a summer camp and the kids (in the old days) were allowed to have knives. On day one the camp director Personally looked at all knives. If he liked it it stayed, if he did not like it it went home with mommy. Size was no issue, he did not allow anything that looked like a switchblade. This was before 3/4 of all knives looked tactical. He basically rejected all the Italian knives with folding hand guards and false edges on the back that looked like daggers. Belt knives and traditional pocket knives were ok. His rule was law. And I cannot imagine him cutting himself.
OP, I would be mad that 1) he dropped your knife -- luckily it wasn't damaged -- and 2) he got HIS blood on YOUR knife.
To NMpops, if you're going to drift a thread, you shouldn't drift a thread with bad information. 1) Why would anyone need to check if the barrel is clean on an assembled gun? 2) More importantly, having the slide locked back and no mag inserted does not guarantee there's no round chambered that would be pointing at you as you look down the barrel of the SIG. Since what you wrote does not preclude the possibility of a round being chambered as you look down the barrel, then what you wrote IS improper and unsafe.
If you want to argue with me further, do it by email. I just didn't want to let your post not addressed with its bad information.
Edited to add: if you mean by "Clean" that the gun is not loaded, you take out the magazine, rack the slide a couple of times without locking it, lock it back, then look from the breech end of the barrel and feel with a finger. That's how you check if the gun is not loaded; certainly not by pointing it at yourself before you have ascertain its actual condition.
To NMpops, if you're going to drift a thread, you shouldn't drift a thread with bad information. 1) Why would anyone need to check if the barrel is clean on an assembled gun? 2) More importantly, having the slide locked back and no mag inserted does not guarantee there's no round chambered that would be pointing at you as you look down the barrel of the SIG. Since what you wrote does not preclude the possibility of a round being chambered as you look down the barrel, then what you wrote IS improper and unsafe.
If you want to argue with me further, do it by email. I just didn't want to let your post not addressed with its bad information.
Edited to add: if you mean by "Clean" that the gun is not loaded, you take out the magazine, rack the slide a couple of times without locking it, lock it back, then look from the breech end of the barrel and feel with a finger. That's how you check if the gun is not loaded; certainly not by pointing it at yourself before you have ascertain its actual condition.
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