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On July 25, The Wall Street Journal published an... alarming and uninformed article about the tactical knives business. The article, called "How new, Deadly Pocketknives became a $1 Billion Business." The article was written by Mark Fritz.
The article was "alarmist" in that it presented information about knives in a biased, infalmatory way. For example, the article states "...pocketknives... can inflict deadly damage, but they are aols compact, easily concealable, and virtually unregulated."
One of the "tactical" "pocketknives" depicted, and characterized as "A Buck keyring tactical knife [that] includes a one-hand-opening blade..." The bold was thier newsprint. Its the Buck Metro:
The whole article has issues, but the very last paragraph includes a reference to Cold Steel's (plastic) Nightshade line of knives. It ends with talking about how Cold Steel advertises its knives by a video "of men attacking slabs of meat and decapitating plywood people..." as if the plastic Knightshade blades are shown doing that, or are capable of doing that.
Currently the article is not available for free to the public, but when it is I'll include a link here.
In the meantime, I'd suggest you find a way to read the article, and urge you to complain LOUDLY about how knives were portrayed and mis portrayed in the article.
This may not be the FIRST round in trying to take away this tool from us, but its certainly not the last. I urge you to respond!
WWW.wsj.com
The article was "alarmist" in that it presented information about knives in a biased, infalmatory way. For example, the article states "...pocketknives... can inflict deadly damage, but they are aols compact, easily concealable, and virtually unregulated."
One of the "tactical" "pocketknives" depicted, and characterized as "A Buck keyring tactical knife [that] includes a one-hand-opening blade..." The bold was thier newsprint. Its the Buck Metro:
The whole article has issues, but the very last paragraph includes a reference to Cold Steel's (plastic) Nightshade line of knives. It ends with talking about how Cold Steel advertises its knives by a video "of men attacking slabs of meat and decapitating plywood people..." as if the plastic Knightshade blades are shown doing that, or are capable of doing that.
Currently the article is not available for free to the public, but when it is I'll include a link here.
In the meantime, I'd suggest you find a way to read the article, and urge you to complain LOUDLY about how knives were portrayed and mis portrayed in the article.
This may not be the FIRST round in trying to take away this tool from us, but its certainly not the last. I urge you to respond!
WWW.wsj.com