Why would anyone go for an assisted knife?

Billy The Hungry said:
My wife wants one of these so bad. Which makes sense, because she is "aggressive ". (Love you baby if you read this you're the best and make the best stroganoff)
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For a woman, I would suggest the smaller one, as it is big enough for most tasks without looking stupidly huge.
The bigger models also lose a lot of their cuteness.
 
calm said:
For a woman, I would suggest the smaller one, as it is big enough for most tasks without looking stupidly huge.
The bigger models also lose a lot of their cuteness.
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Do they make the donut one in a smaller knife?

She doesn't mind medium sized knives
Hal said:
Please tell me the OP hasn't gone the way of the wind.

I'll never find out what a "basic b" is now. :(

I'll have to grab one of my assisted openers and go berserk on some fruit or something!
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Apparently we are ❤
 
Steely_Gunz said:
Well barring the fact that automatic knives do have a place in one's toolbox where they excel over manual knives, especially OTF autos, AO (assisted opening) knives do a couple of things:

They open easier than a knife with a thumb stud when your hand is at a suboptimal angle/position. Pushing down on a tab to fire the blade is easier than thumbing open a blade in some instances.

The other thing they did was to show how silly automatic laws are. Once knives were readily available where they weren't automatics "technically", many local jurisdictions scrubbed archaic auto laws from the books since it was pretty obvious that the opening mechanism of a knife did not make it more dangerous or deadly and AO knives were available in every Wal-Mart.
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Tell that to California lawmakers lol 🙄🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
 
calm said:
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I love that one. I wish they would make other types of knives with that color scheme.
 
Using KnifeCenter KnifeCenter videos as an example, because I like DCA:

How many times has he (or Thomas) flubbed opening a manual knife? Alot.

How many times has he (or Thomas) flubbed opening an assisted knife? None that I can remember.

That's it.
 
Offhand, it just sounds like you're a giant jealous peckerwood because you can't have something some of us can. I need an assisted/auto like I need an AR. I don't need it, I want it. I see absolutely no downside to an assisted knife. I carried one for years. There may be downsides to an auto, depends on who you are and the uses you have for it.
But I will tell you this; I'm not fond of thumb studs. For some reason I can't understand, I have a hard time with them. Every time I try one, I come close to separating a fingernail from the nailbed, which is never a good time. So I get that lots of people like them, that's cool, they can have my share. I'll stick to autos, thanks.
 
NPT said:
Offhand, it just sounds like you're a giant jealous peckerwood because you can't have something some of us can. I need an assisted/auto like I need an AR. I don't need it, I want it. I see absolutely no downside to an assisted knife. I carried one for years. There may be downsides to an auto, depends on who you are and the uses you have for it.
But I will tell you this; I'm not fond of thumb studs. For some reason I can't understand, I have a hard time with them. Every time I try one, I come close to separating a fingernail from the nailbed, which is never a good time. So I get that lots of people like them, that's cool, they can have my share. I'll stick to autos, thanks.
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I disagree. You definitely need an AR. 👍
 
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