Wanted to let everyone know....kina long.

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I know that some of you have seen my post in regards to the MicroTech MTX2 DA. Even though I am in Iraq I can get one, but would not be able to bring it home (VA) legally. I checked with my father in law who is a detective in VA, told me that he checked around the office and told me this. In VA it is illegal for anyone to own or use an automatic knife (switchblade). VA considers anything automatic which uses a spring to assist in the opening of the blade. Since I would carry this knife on me everyday, I figured that I better check. Due to today's climate about guns and knives, and if I did have to use it in an emergency it definately would not look good for me in a legal sense in regards to "self defense". Since this is the case I am going to get the manual version instead. Yes, it would be nice to have the DA, but I would rather not if buying it may have reprocussions. It may be a marketing ploy as some one stated in my other thread, but it is better to be safe than sorry and make sure what you have is legal to carry just for the sake of the legalities of self defense. I read somewhere on line, i think it was knifeforums.com, that a person who used a knife that had a name such as "Death Reaper" or whatever would not look good for the person who used it for self defense, just due to the name. Actually it was on knifeforums.com about Dark Ops knives. Who ever wrote that made a lot sense. I just dont want anyone here to mess up and have the possibility of screwing their lives up for good.

Lee
 
Good thinking.

Some day we may be able to get rid of useless laws, illogical laws, laws that placate the ignorant but improve no one's life. Until then, please be careful and don't flout the law without a very good and carefully thought out reason.

In actuality, few autos provide much in the way of superior performance over an equivalent one-hand opening folder. Many models with an auto and a manual version show that the manual has fewer parts to jam or break and is more than fast enough to deploy.

Of course, there's always the Severtech! :D
(I've got the green handle, black blade. There goes all my pontificating for nothing :footinmou )
 
I have decided to get the manual version instead. Plus it is pretty much the same knife, legal, and cheaper. I have heard a lot of good things about MicroTech and wonder if what I have been hearing is true about their knives. I just dont understand why it seems that most of their knives are all auto's or considered autos. Just doesnt make much sense to me because they are limiting their sales IMO.

Lee
 
I wouldnt say they are limiting themselves any more than say Ferrari is limiting themselves by only making sports cars. They are marketing to (and IMHO getting a big share of) a smaller market niche. They also make alot of their knives in manual versions for the reasons you have stated.
 
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