Will knives eventually get ...."gunned?"

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Lavan

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When I first started shooting, all the gun magazines had articles on how to handload, sporterize Mausers, collect Lugers, sight in scopes and aperture sights, accurize a .45, tune a Colt, finish a stock, etc. And the laws pertaining to guns were quite reasonable. Locally one gun store was a combination bar and gun shop. You could buy a beer on one side of the room and a gun on the other. If it was a handgun, you had to wait 3 days. But a long gun could be carried out and openly to your car with no waiting period.

Then the gun magazines switched to tactical stuff. 9mm vs. .45 for "stopping power." Fast draw, best "kill" shots, hottest "combat" loads, new guns that fired fast (but not so accurately), night shooting, etc.

Now, I don't know if that transition affected who bought and used guns but it was a definite shift of focus to a different audience.

And now I see "Blade" magazine carrying "legal" opinions and lots of knife manufacturers catering to tactical knife trends.

Do you think this will affect future legislation on knives or lead to a different light on knife fans?

I like "tactical" aspects of knives, but I wonder if "knife newbies" know that ANY knife can be applied in a tactical usage. Will knife buyers develop new and more aggressive attitudes to blades? And if so, will it lead to the public perception of knives as items to REGULATE to remain "politically correct?" :barf:

Just musing on a Sunday afternoon.

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Based on the example of Britian, it's pretty clear that knives would be the target of ban legislation to "keep our streets safe" if guns were not the main source of attention. The "ban knives" logic is exactly the same as the "ban guns" logic, and the politicians see it in exactly the same way -- a way to be seen "doing something" for public safety.
 
Well,
If they do start targeting knives for crime reasons, of course it will be the wrong target. The assualt weapons ban targeted weapons that were rarely ever used in crime, and on top of that it only regulated what they looked like.

If they were to go after knives, they should start with kitchen knives...the crime knives. But no. Because of movies they would go after anything "tactical." Look at Benchamdes, Emersons, and (I actually hope they stop these) Dark Operations knives.

They have already started by banning automatics and bali's in many areas...I bet some liberal who beleives it's their job to control people will soon get wind of something like the wave feature on Emersons and try to stop that, just like "assisted knives."

Hopefully the people that you and I elect will have the common sense not to ever try to take away our rights, think with their brains and not their emotions, and be smart enough to know that stupid laws will only be followed by law abiding citizens, and not criminals. Hey, we call them criminals because they break the law, will a law stop them from being criminals? No.
 
Plumber576 said:
and (I actually hope they stop these) Dark Operations knives.
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It's hard to ban a knife that doesn't exist! :D

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I'm sure it never even occured to anyone that guns could be used for killing people before magazines started writing about it. What is written in these magazines are primarilly just responses to what's happening in society. Gun magazines focused more on protection/preservation when gang violence and violent crimes were on the rise.
Now knife magazines write about legislation because it's something that's really going on in city hall and washington.
It's sad, but if things don't start to look up, knives will become under complete attack.
Is any of this making sense? I'm pretty sloshed right now and can't quite remember what I'm writing about.
-KC
 
Lavan said:
And now I see "Blade" magazine carrying "legal" opinions and lots of knife manufacturers catering to tactical knife trends.

Do you think this will affect future legislation on knives or lead to a different light on knife fans?

I like "tactical" aspects of knives, but I wonder if "knife newbies" know that ANY knife can be applied in a tactical usage. Will knife buyers develop new and more aggressive attitudes to blades? And if so, will it lead to the public perception of knives as items to REGULATE to remain "politically correct?" :barf:

Just musing on a Sunday afternoon.

:confused:
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Blade magazine has had a column on knife laws for a very long time. I don't see how that could lead to knife buyers developing more aggressive attitudes to blades.

There have also been tactical usage articles in knife magazines since at least the mid eighties. I do not think this has lead to knives being used in a more aggressive manner.

Regulating knives to be politcally correct is happening now, but I don't think magazine articles have anything to do with it.
 
I live in Lost Angeles, which as most people know is chock-full of leftist "do gooders". Nevertheless, I do not notice anywhere near as strong an aversion to knives as there is to guns. It's not even close.
 
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