How To Possible to shorten a blade to meet State law?

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There's a BIG difference between modifying a knife in an illegal manner, or to make it deadlier, or easier to illegally conceal...and modifying it to make it LEGAL, so that you will be within the letter of the law. Making a blade SHORTER, and therefore LESS deadly as a stabbing weapon, doesn't seem to me to be the type of thing a criminal would do.

If we extrapolate far out enough what bad things might happen based on the knives we carry, and base our decisions on what some hypothetical DA might do in some hypothetical situation, then we probably wouldn't carry ANY knife at all. I can show you a case of a guy who got arrested and convicted just for carrying a Swiss Army knife (conviction overturned on appeal).

Unless I missed it, I don't think the OP said anything about carrying the knife for self-defense.

I typically believe that people should follow the letter of the law to avoid consequence, but that's pretty much the extent of my concern. I don't like to get too deep into hypotheticals, because they never end. If you spend your life worrying about every remotely possible bad thing that might happen, you'll never actually live your life.
 
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killgar said:
There's a BIG difference between modifying a knife in an illegal manner, or to make it deadlier, or easier to illegally conceal...and modifying it to make it LEGAL, so that you will be within the letter of the law. Making a blade SHORTER, and therefore LESS deadly as a stabbing weapon, doesn't seem to me to be the type of thing a criminal would do.

If we extrapolate far out enough what bad things might happen based on the knives we carry, and base our decisions on what some hypothetical DA might do in some hypothetical situation, then we probably wouldn't carry ANY knife at all. I can show you a case of a guy who got arrested and convicted just for carrying a Swiss Army knife (conviction overturned on appeal).

Unless I missed it, I don't think the OP said anything about carrying the knife for self-defense.

I typically believe that people should follow the letter of the law to avoid consequence, but that's pretty much the extent of my concern. I don't like to get too deep into hypotheticals, because they never end. If you spend your life worrying about every remotely possible bad thing that might happen, you'll never actually live your life.
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Yeah, this isn't a rifle barrel here.
 
Look, he’s goin’ where he’s goin’, he wants what he wants, and David’s gonna give it to him. Then he can do what he does, and see if it works.

What he’s doing wouldn’t be my personal choice - I don’t believe that a rational person can predict irrationality well enough to appease it in advance. But I stand up for his right to do it for his own reasons. Y’all have your own reasons for your own choices, and he doesn’t bash you around about them.

I think your opinions are interesting, but go easy on him. He’s trying to solve a problem the way he sees fit. Maybe it’ll work, maybe not, but he’s doing the experiment. Maybe others will learn something from it. And seeing a retip from David can’t be a bad thing, for any reason. I predict I’ll learn something by that.

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