What is the very least knife you carry?

I carry a Sebertec M4 in such situations. Anyone remember a thread here where someone said that he got through the Tokyo Narita airport with a baby Sebenza?

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-Greg
You don't need a parachute to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. You need it only if you want to jump out twice.

 
I have a 17 year old Smith & Wesson lock back that I fly with all the time. The knife was my daily carry for years and it looks like it. I think that its worn look has a calming effect on LEO's. Court House metal detectors are always a problem. If your there on business you can sometimes claim that the knife is a tool in your line of work and that can get you by but it is case specific and often it is just a question of luck.
Last fall I was flying out of Pheonix and I happened to have a RONCO Pocket Fisherman in my bag (if you don't know don't ask) that I was trying to carry on. I had a Buck 110 in the same outside Pocket. Well the Damn fishing pole made such a scene that the security people (there were several of them at this point) never finished searching my luggage. Not that the 110 is illegal on an airplane (I'll take the time here to swear that I have never knowingly violated any federal regulations in case anybody is watching) but they never saw it and I didn't bring it up. Like I said...Luck.
Chet
 
I've enjoyed the courthouse theme of this thread because I spend a lot of time in courthouses. I'm a trial lawyer, and my local courthouse has such a strict no weapons policy that I finally had to take the Gerber micro LST off my keychain. I used to leave my keychain with the bailiffs, but once I left the courthouse distracted after 5:00 pm and walked back to my office, only to discover that I had forgotten to retrieve my keys and was now locked out of both office and car. I had to lurk outside the judge's entrance until one exited and authorized the bailiffs to let me in to reclaim my keys. I've seen them take Leatherman Micras, SAKs, everything.

We had a bad courthouse shooting several years ago in a rural county. It happened during a divorce hearing --family law cases are the most dangerous, just as domestic disturbances are the most dangerous calls for police officers. The hearing was held in the judge's chambers. The husband drew a handgun on his wife across the table. Her attorney, a fine young lawyer and family man, shielded his client with his body and was killed by the first shot. The husband's attorney and the wife were able to get out the door and escape but the gunman was between the judge and the door. The judge locked himself in the bathroom but the husband fired through the door, killing the judge. The he chased his wife up some stairs and out onto the roof of the courthouse, where he shot and wounded her.

The sheriff was walking into the courthouse when he heard shots and saw the husband on the roof, standing over his wife, berating her and threatening to kill her. The sheriff took aim with his handgun and hit the gunman in the neck, wounding him and ending the incident.

After that, security was tightened in most Florida courthouses, but not all. In some rural areas things are still casual.

This incident was memorable for a number of things. First, the tragedy of a man feeling so much hatred for someone he had loved enough to marry that he wanted to kill her. Second, the sacrifice of the attorney who protected his client at the loss of his own life. And third, the sheriff made an outstanding shot!
 
The CRK&T P.E.C.K is my "least" knife of choice. It`s small, cute and extremely "unthreatening". It also doubles as a money clip. When entering a secure area, I clip some bills into it and toss it in the basket. No one has ever even noticed that it was a knife.

Last time I entered a courthouse, my PECK made it in. My water bottle had to wait outside. (?) Go figure....
 
I like the Cat Tanto and Delta dart that Cold Steel puts out, go through detectors and they're still capable if striking an opponent down if need be.
 
I'm having a tough time with the original question. I thought it asked what knife usually ends up spending its life in the drawer. If this indeed the question, then it's my automatic or my trailmaster. If the question is asking what model I'd have clipped to my skin if naked, well that'd be my LPU (Life Preservation Unit), the mini-Axis lock. If nothing else, it's a great "solo" knife in that it can handle big jobs in a tiny package.

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As for now, the very least knife I carry is my BM 350bt, soon it will be my BM 705bt(WHEN THEY FINALLY COME OUT!).

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"All of our knives open with one hand, in case you're busy with the other"
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Have to be my Swiss Army Knife, the black Executive, have had one of those now for at least 18 years, never leave home without it in my left front pocket. Even use the Orange peeler function, just to show off to others how neat it is.

That would be the Least knife, but typically I carry up to 9 knives at a time, not as heavy a load as our friend Dexter! He is one person that I have to admire for carrying capacity. When we were at the show and started talking about a certain knife, Dex would pull one of those out and pass it around the group! He is amazing, and a very nice person to boot! He listens and takes in what others are saying, so that fits in with his evaluation persona quite well.

oops this wasn't the Dexter thread was it? sorry
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