The crap non-knife people say

Planterz said:
Assuming you're in the USA, it's illegal to carry a pocket knife with a blade that isn't less than 2.5" in length inside a federal government building. Just FYI.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/930
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Well I didn't know that. Is a post office considered a federal building, because if some I am a serious law breaker! Even though the post lady laughs when I come in (she knows me as a knife guy, I even sharpened her scissors on the spot because she was having trouble).
 
uncle, grandpa, and cousins like to tell me "dont bring a knife to a gun fight" every time i show them a new knife.


im not showing them shit any more :mad:
 
Planterz said:
Assuming you're in the USA, it's illegal to carry a pocket knife with a blade that isn't less than 2.5" in length inside a federal government building. Just FYI.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/930
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USC § 930 does not means a blade over 2.5" is automatically considered " weapon". I've carried small traditionals in pocket and SAKs on belt with blades longer than 2.5" in federal buildings and on controlled/secured property for decades, often with the full knowledge of security personnel, if any are present. I'm in federal facilities, often secure, nearly daily. Those facilities must be posted as required in 18 USC § 930 subsection h, and that paragraph prohibits prosecution if not posted.
 
leghog said:
USC § 930 does not means a blade over 2.5" is automatically considered " weapon". I've carried small traditionals in pocket and SAKs on belt with blades longer than 2.5" in federal buildings and on controlled/secured property for decades, often with the full knowledge of security personnel, if any are present. I'm in federal facilities, often secure, nearly daily. Those facilities must be posted as required in 18 USC § 930 subsection h, and that paragraph prohibits prosecution if not posted.
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Would that be in the case of "3)....incident to hunting or other lawful purposes"?

Good to know. I pretty much always have a 2.5"+ knife on me whenever I go to the PO too, but I don't whip it out and tell old ladies (who might tattle on me in retribution) to piss off, either.
 
Things I've actually heard...

"That's a nice looking knife. Looks old. Lots of memories?"

"Do you have a knife on you? Wait. What was I thinking? Can I borrow your knife?"

"Can I borrow one of your knives?"

"Can you open this for me?"


edc-pair by Pinnah, on Flickr
 
pinnah said:
Things I've actually heard...

"That's a nice looking knife. Looks old. Lots of memories?"

"Do you have a knife on you? Wait. What was I thinking? Can I borrow your knife?"

"Can I borrow one of your knives?"

"Can you open this for me?"
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That's pretty much what I hear. I think I must live in a more uncivilized part of Texas as a lot of women carry knives around here as well. Not traditional knives or something tactical, but lightweight, thin knives like smaller Spydercos and their like. They are in purses or on keychains. One lady I know even carries a small multitool.

I have seen the conversation go the other way many times. Women that say to a guy, "you don't even have a little knife I could borrow?" or "I can't imagine a man without a knife, my Daddy always had his pocket knife with him". The lady I know that carries the multitool was gifted it by her father as the office folks she worked with never had a tool with a blade.

I have gotten a lot of very positive compliments on some of my traditional knives, even from women. They can't resist noticing the beautiful carved bone, the highly polished bolsters and scales, and then of course the nice shiny D2 blade. One of my lady friends told me it looked more like a piece of jewelry than a knife. (Come on... the knife of reference was a 4" stockman!)

Different strokes for different folks. I have to say though, while I generally just walk away in the rare event I hear something smart mouthed or sarcastic about me carrying a knife, I completely understand firing back something nasty when someone can't mind their own business.

Robert
 
One girl asked why I was carrying that "Big weapon."
I was confused, so I asked her what she meant.
She was referring to my custom karambit was pretty blue titanium scales and a 2.5 inch blade.
I explained all about the hand made nature of it, the benefits of D2 steel, why titanium was desirable, the safety feature of a retention ring, how the thumb hole opener worked with gloves...she then saw me as a harmless knife nerd rather than a killer.

The odd part is that she saw the knife when I was opening a box of solvent, which is a pretty normal knife task.
But, rather than try to explain about knife utility (it turns out her grandfather never carried a knife either), I went with the ploy of explaining it as a collectable piece of "man jewellery" with a side order of utilitarianism.

And she never thought anything of any of my knives afterwards. :thumbup:
 
"How do you close it? I don't know how, I don't want to break it." haha please.
or one I recently got from one of my friends, "Why do you even like knives so much? What interests you about them? They're just knives.."
 
The other night we had a family dinner at my grandmother's and I was sitting in the living room. I heard my sister in the other room ask my wife to ask me if she (my sister) could use my knife for a second. Then I heard my wife "He won't let you do that with his knife."

I gave a buddy a Cryo and he is slowly coming around to knives. I saw a Marzitelli CRKT collab at a gunshow and mentioned that I used to have one of his customs. He asked what that cost and when I told him he didn't say anything but his eyebrows went so high they damn near got lost in his hair. I didn't think it was that much...
 
Planterz said:
Assuming you're in the USA, it's illegal to carry a pocket knife with a blade that isn't less than 2.5" in length inside a federal government building. Just FYI.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/930
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I guess it's up to the PO then. I routinely go into multiple POs here in central Texas wearing a Kabar 1232 and a couple of folders clipped to my pockets, with nothing said. My primary PO has 2 guys who also collective knives, swords and/or bayonets. All the clerks there know I'm a knife person and the only Qs I get from them is "What did you get today."
 
But .. I thought you were a Christian ?
( I get that one a fair bit )
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I might be missing something, but I didn't quite get this one. Anybody care to explain it to me?
 
Raylas said:
I might be missing something, but I didn't quite get this one. Anybody care to explain it to me?
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They view a knife as a weapon only, and mistakenly believe that Christians are not allowed weapons or defensive violence.
They are wrong on all counts. ;)
 
Raylas said:
I might be missing something, but I didn't quite get this one. Anybody care to explain it to me?
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When a close friend of mine got married , I made him a knife forged from a 120 year old buggy spring , used 100+ year old rosewood from the heart of an old strainer post for the handle . It turned out pretty good , enough he made a stand for it and displays it in his living room . His friends would pick it up and admire it , ask where it came from etc , kinda drooling over it , till hed tell them " Oh , thats just something Karl knocked up for me "
they all had the same reaction .." But ... isnt he a Chistian ?"

Odd thing about that .. the first blade mentioned in the Bible , God made it ..why would it not follow that Christians are bound to be knife makers ??
 
Showing the handles I made for my BK2 to a co worker, a female sales associate walks by who knows I'm a knife guy and has heard me explain more than once my blades are tools says, 'you could stab somebody with that', to which I reply 'it would be difficult to push this thick and shape of blade through clothing, its for processing wood', to which she replies, 'well, you could chop someone's hand off with it', and I reply, 'chrildrens hands, a Bk9 would be better for adults hands'. She silently walked away. When I looked up at my co worker he was shaking his head and grinning.
 
A friend of mine's parents are what you would call "country pacifists". They embrace the ways of the Amish. They are good, well meaning people, but they were very disturbed that I carried a folding knife on me. "Dearie me! Why would you want to carry such a dangerous weapon like that (at the time I was sporting a cheap Chinese folder) around!? Do you have anger in your heart towards the world?" Considering the fact that they live in the Adirondacks, on a freaking farm, and that (somewhat hypocritically) ALL their children own shotguns, I was amused by the question.

However, that lecture pails in comparison to the one I got when they found out I wanted to join the Army. :rolleyes:
 
They view a knife as a weapon only, and mistakenly believe that Christians are not allowed weapons or defensive violence.
They are wrong on all counts.
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When a close friend of mine got married , I made him a knife forged from a 120 year old buggy spring , used 100+ year old rosewood from the heart of an old strainer post for the handle . It turned out pretty good , enough he made a stand for it and displays it in his living room . His friends would pick it up and admire it , ask where it came from etc , kinda drooling over it , till hed tell them " Oh , thats just something Karl knocked up for me "
they all had the same reaction .." But ... isnt he a Chistian ?"

Odd thing about that .. the first blade mentioned in the Bible , God made it ..why would it not follow that Christians are bound to be knife makers ??
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Ah, okay. Thanks. I'm not religious, but I DO seem to remember an awful lot of Knights being Christians, and plenty Christians fighting in wars, so I'm not sure how these people came up with that.

Then again, I think if we try to follow their train of logic, our heads would explode.
 
The funny thing is, and I do not intend to start any religious debate, but the Christians have probably killed as many people as any other group with knives and swords in recorded history
 
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