Places You Don't Carry Your Knife?

Hi All-

Pretty much carry everywhere.
  • work
  • leisure/relaxing/watching television or websurfing
  • sports
  • church
  • hiking/biking/motorcycling/skiing
The only places I don't carry are federal installations, courtrooms, and airplanes. Everyplace else that randomly doesn't allow knives (like concerts, clubs, theaters, stadiums, and amusement parks) or does cursory searches, I simply lie and sneak them in. They get slipped into my pocket at my earliest convenience.

~ Blue Jays ~
 
Everywhere except planes - I wore my Spydie pacific salt body surfing this morning. Why? You log on to a place like this and ask why?
 
No knife when i'm in the dojo, lifting, or showering. Or the pool/jacuzzi. Everywhere else.
 
I carry a knife everywhere. I will not go to places that use metal detectors unless I have to. There are knives beside the bed and knives in the bathroom for the times when having a knife on my person would be impractical or unwise.

I can't think of a single reason why you should ever be more than arms length away from a knife. (Laws aside.)
 
Well... I do take mine into the shower when it's a public facility (campgrounds come to mind). Whatever I'm carrying goes wherever I go. I won't submit to a search or scan, so I don't go where those things happen.
 
m_calingo said:
I've heard federal buildings consider knives verboten.
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You have heard incorrectly. The applicable federal law, 18 USCode 930 forbids the carrying of any deadly or dangerous weapon in a federal building other than a court (which have their own rules). But paragraph (g)(2) of that section says:
(2) The term “dangerous weapon” means a weapon, device, instrument, material, or substance, animate or inanimate, that is used for, or is readily capable of, causing death or serious bodily injury, except that such term does not include a pocket knife with a blade of less than 2 1/2 inches in length.
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This means that you can carry such a pocket knife into and inside of federal buildings. The problem is that the federal agencies tend to use rent-a-cops as building security and most of them tend toward the position that any knife is outlawed. Hell, I suspect that even the regular federal police would tend to do so, given what I have read of how beat police view knives. I, therefore, carry a copy of 18USC930 with me in my backpack as I commute to and from work in my federal office.
 
Though I live 'in the country' I travel to several area cities and towns on a regular basis. I carry knives pretty much everywhere with the obvious exception of airplanes and courthouses. I carry them TO the courthouse and security holds them until I leave. I also carry them TO the airport when dropping off or picking up various people. Never a problem with my Spydie Endura and Buck 110 or my Swiss Champ. Been tending more to the Buck as edc over the Champ since I bought my new 110. I rather suspect I was looking for reasons to use the 'other' blades on the Champ.
I rarely swim in pools as I prefer lakes and rivers where I have either my Spydie or a River Shorty. I have a visceral dislike for 'tame' water.
Restaurants...of course! Nothing like using a 110 to slice that juicy steak or cut chunks of stuff down to 'bitesize' in a Chinese place where it's either struggle with using the fork edge or...
I even wear my 110 into my daughter's middle school in San Antonio. They have a security dude but he has never said a word to me.
If there are detectors or wands, I'll leave the big bad weaponses in the car.
 
I don't sleep or shower with my knife.
And I don't carry it anywhere that I'm likely to be searched or have to pass through a metal detector (courthouse, police station, airports, rock concerts, ect).
But with those exceptions I carry one everywhere.

Allen.
 
I don't wear a knife in the shower, but I do have my SOG Navy Seal Knife hanging by a lanyard from the shower head, j/k. LOL.
 
The one that surprised me was on an interstate bus. I made the mistake of taking the bus from Pueblo Colorado to San Diego last year. They left me stranded in the Albuquerque bus station at 3:00 AM due to overbooking a connecting bus. In Albuquerque they wouldn't let you board a bus with a knife on you or in your luggage. I had to ship my knives back home via the bus line's shipping. Due to many ways they screwed me I am never taking Greyhound/Trailways again. It was the trip from hell. I ended up leaving the bus in Phoenix and flying into San Diego. Even doing that I arrived later than scheduled.
 
in my job i i frequently must visit my clients who are incarcerated, and they have metal detectors there and if i carry my knife, its gonna get taken, so i dont :)
 
Places i dont carry a knife.

Government Buildings.

Strip Clubs.

Airports.

Usually carry a force multiplier from keating when i cant carry a knife

I have a knife for any other occasion and location. Most commonly either the Ares, AFCK, or MiniAFCK
 
I once had a little Gerber Micro LST with me whilst vacationing in Florida. My family decided to go to Sea World. We were in line when I realized that they were using metal detectors. I slipped the knife inside my boot so it fell under my foot.

When we got to the metal detector it sounded, they wanded my boot, decided it must be the metal insole, and waved my on. Whew!

I did have to leave the knife behind (in the car) at Kennedy Space Center - very tight security there. Just like an airport.

It did go with me to Disney World though.
 
Everywhere. I have a knife hanging from my lanyard on the shower hook, on my bedstand, on the train home, everywhere. Except places with metal detectors where they'll take it and not give it back. :mad:
 
Hi All-

Don't even get me going on those pesky, ubiquitous metal detectors... I love how you can have a perfectly legal item on your person but some so-called private property owner decides they don't like it...so they make it a verboten item.

Can you imagine if a place made rules against cellular phones, iPods, purses, chewing gum, or whatever? Worse yet, what if a property owner decided they no longer wished to permit black people on their property because they represented a greater threat than other customers? It is outrageous and insulting. You shouldn't be refused admittance to a public store/venue/church/attraction just because management doesn't like the possessions you keep in your pockets...

People don't realize the trouble we're in because it is not their ox that is being gored. I don't want to hijack the thread, but knives are legal tools that should be allowed anywhere that can't identify a demonstrable security risk.

~ Blue Jays ~
 
Mongo-man said:
in the intensive care unit, on the operation table, during my yearly prostate examination ( what if i get mad?) , in prison ( UNLESS i am in the shower ;) ), when i have sex with my GF ( the neck sheath keeps hitting her head in certain positions ), when i get X-rayed, on the MRI table, when i visit my mother in law.

:D
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You have a GF and a mother in law?
Better hope your mother in law's daughter doesn't read this. ;)
 
Fisher of Men said:
How do you "neck carry" a Spyderco SS Dragonfly?
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OnScene/Tactical, Eric Noeldechen, "normark" on the forums... got a kydex rig 2yrs ago, been carrying it 24/7 since. I've gone through ball chain, through 1/8" cord that breaks at 30lbs, now just have 1/4" that breaks at 50lbs...
 
I don't carry to often when im in my house. I figure if I need one I'll go to the kitchen and get one. other than that I carry everywhere unless I'm going some where that doesnt allow them, and since they dont allow them thats pretty much never.
 
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