Name that knife

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The new Martin Scorsese movie, The Departed, features a spearpoint folder as a weapon that you can glimpse in the TV trailer. It has three or four holes drilled into the upper part of the blade and looks silver, possibly titanium, although it's impossible to tell. Judging from the hand/knife ratio, I'd say the blade was at least a four-incher. Can any sharp-eyed TV viewer identify it?
 
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Spyderco Viele? Nah.
 
Am I the only one that forsees the use of an AO knife as a weapon in an anticipated movie turning the tide against assisted openers and getting them definitively classified as switchblades? I love my whirlwind. I EDCed it for years, until I moved to CT.
 
hlee said:
Am I the only one that forsees the use of an AO knife as a weapon in an anticipated movie turning the tide against assisted openers and getting them definitively classified as switchblades? I love my whirlwind. I EDCed it for years, until I moved to CT.
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It depends on the LEO that checks you. Some will not regard it as an auto and others might. They sell them here in CT so they can't be illegal yet.
 
While they may technically be legal, the following gives me pause.

Sec. 53-206. Any person who carries upon his or her person... any knife having an automatic spring release device by which a blade is released from the handle...shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than three years or both...

If one must err, err on the side of caution.
 
I carry many assisted openers here in MD, they are not illegal "yet" . My axis lock BM's will fly open just as fast so TS to those who wanna make a quick opening knife illegal.
 
hlee said:
Am I the only one that forsees the use of an AO knife as a weapon in an anticipated movie turning the tide against assisted openers and getting them definitively classified as switchblades? I love my whirlwind. I EDCed it for years, until I moved to CT.
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nope i edced one too and i hate that its gonna be demonized. :(
 
hlee said:
While they may technically be legal, the following gives me pause.

Sec. 53-206. Any person who carries upon his or her person... any knife having an automatic spring release device by which a blade is released from the handle...shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than three years or both...

If one must err, err on the side of caution.
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Since you have to start an assisted opener, it's not automatic. Most AO knives let you get almost .25" before they become assisted so that also shows it's not automatic by definition. I understand your concerns however.
Currently my only AO is a Kershaw Random Task and lit looks more like a boxcutter than a knife at first glance.
 
G3 said:
Since you have to start an assisted opener, it's not automatic. Most AO knives let you get almost .25" before they become assisted so that also shows it's not automatic by definition. I understand your concerns however.
Currently my only AO is a Kershaw Random Task and lit looks more like a boxcutter than a knife at first glance.
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One of my EX's father was a lawyer. He defended a man who was charged with DWI. He and his wife had gotten in an arguement and his wife kicked him out of the trailor. He got in his car and got soused. A cop saw him with his feet sticking out of the window with the engine running and wrote him up for DWI.

The odd part was the car had no transmission, rear axel, rims or tires. It was just sitting on 4 cinderblocks. The judge said that since it was a car with a key in the ignition it didnt matter if it could not drive and sentance the guy to 2 weeks in jail and $500 fine.

I think the important part here is to not get caught with it and you wont have to explain it.
 
LHD said:
The odd part was the car had no transmission, rear axel, rims or tires. It was just sitting on 4 cinderblocks. The judge said that since it was a car with a key in the ignition it didnt matter if it could not drive and sentance the guy to 2 weeks in jail and $500 fine.
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Did it happen in california by any chance?
 
That is the VA law.

Even if the car was not running, if you had the keys on your person (in your control), you can be charged with DUI (and convicted).

BS, but until someone fights it to the state supreme court, it will be common practice. But, it is not in the State's, nor insurance comanies', financial interests to get rid of the practice.

OT
 
I must admit it looks like the Kershaw but is it me or are there three bolt heads at the top of the handle? Sorry to nit pick!
 
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