removing lawks

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walleyeguy7

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my friend has owned an m16 forever it seems and i have always disliked the knife. mainly because of the steep grind, chisel edge, serrations, stiff action, bad thumb stud, and skin tearing flipper. my friend asked me to make a v edge out of it and while i had it i took apart the knife to clean and oil it. i took out the lawks just for fun and boy is the knife more fun to open and close without it. i gave it back to my friend without the lawks, which he had always said he thought was cool, and he was shocked as well. the lawks is a really clunky and unnecessary system imo. what do you think
 
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i have one too. It is a terrible knife IMO, everything you said about it in the OP is the same way I feel. Never took out the LAWKs though, I probably wont bother anyway it still wouldn't be worth carrying
 
agree with you all that xtra mechinism is unnessary. the company should have spent that money on improving the blade.
 
Doesn't take that long to get used to the AutoLawks. Did it ever occur to you that there may be a genuine safety reason why CRKT use it on their knives? Don't thinky you'd have much chance of sueing them if you sustained an injury after you removed the AutoLawks

BTW - I like only the LE & Ti versions of the M16
 
Don't really see a safety reason at all ,unless of course you're in the habit of slamming the back of the knife blade against something solid. Its never crossed my mind to sue a knife company for cutting a hand or finger,and I've got a few cuts and gouges from knives over the years. Nothing serious. Every single one was from operator error and an autolawks would not have prevented any of them. I guess if I used my imagination really really hard ,I could come up with an unrealistic scenario for having an autolawks on a knife. Just my $0.02 worth. Thumbs down for autolawks.
 
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