Gazrok
A True Doomsday Prepper
Nope, but will certainly check it out. Mostly, my weapons were gained haphazardly, as I'm not one to spend 100's of bucks on a gun. Doesn't mean I wouldn't like to, but just the way opportunities presented themselves.
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Nope, but will certainly check it out. Mostly, my weapons were gained haphazardly, as I'm not one to spend 100's of bucks on a gun. Doesn't mean I wouldn't like to, but just the way opportunities presented themselves.
TheShadowKnows
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Only a knife for know, though I keep a Henry Survival 22 in the trunk of the car always with 200+ rounds. Don't have my concealed carry yet, waiting on the vote for Constitutional Carry. My work prohibits employees from carrying but the way I see it, if you don't see my gun, and you don't hear my gun, it's none of your damn business. I plan to carry anyway. I'd rather be alive and unemployed than dead should something happen.
Brent S
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I'm the same way. Sure there are some guns I would like, and could buy if I really wanted, but it makes more sense to me to take advantage of a deal when one comes up. The only new gun I went out and bought was the highpoint 9mm for two hundred. I figured it was so cheap as is that I couldn't go wrong. And yes, I did carry it today. I always have a multi tool on my belt, mostly carry the 9mm, and in the car I have a machete, and a box of ammo. Don't forget all the things that could be used as a weapon too, like a hammer, car keys, stick, etc.
Silent Earth
A True Doomsday Prepper
I'm still carrying a UK legal knife but the new one is much heavier and more solid than the Byrd Tern, I now carry a CRKT Liong Mah number 5, plus a tactical pen, flashlight with serrated bezel with a compound bow in the back of the car with my GHB.
Roninsensei
If it’s sharp, I’m your guy....
How do you like it North? The Liong Mah?
Silent Earth
A True Doomsday Prepper
Superior in design, quality, size and weight than the Byrd Tern but of course being UK legal it does not lock so you have to ensure your forefinger sits correctly in the choil to stop it accidentally closing, beautiful quality, nice pocket clip the only silly bit is the tiny poxy little bit of paracord that comes attached to it. Many Brits like a woven paracord fob on their edc blades usually consisting of at least a meter of good paracord, but the one supplied with the knife probably only has around a foot of cord.
The thicker than normal drop point blade is superbly formed , machined and finished and I also did the modification on it as seen on You Tube
The thicker than normal drop point blade is superbly formed , machined and finished and I also did the modification on it as seen on You Tube
Roninsensei
If it’s sharp, I’m your guy....
You know I have no prob with mods!!! Looks good!!
TheShadowKnows
Member
This may be way off topic but.... What's the point of prohibiting a locking mechanism on a folding knife? Isn't that like saying "You can carry a gun, but it cannot have a manual safety?"
Silent Earth
A True Doomsday Prepper
The Anti knife / gun/ baton/ tazor/ spray - Bannit Mentality in the UK thinks only criminals will carry fixed blade or locking knives, the fact that lock knives are inherently safer does not come into the equation, in the US that mentality translates into " If We cannot Ban It, make it as useless as possible" or We cannot get around the golden laws about gun ownership so let them keep their guns just limit them to single shot weapons.
TheShadowKnows
Member
No fixed-blade, even? What about a good solid kitchen knife? I'm just trying to wrap my head around this here. The Shadow did in fact not Know that things were quite so bad across the pond there. A solid fixed-blade for bushcraft purposes alone is a central part of my prepping philosophy.
Silent Earth
A True Doomsday Prepper
Our UK laws are DELIBERATELY ambiguous and unclear this allows the control freaks police and authorities the flexabilty to decide if something innocuous today can be classed as an illegal weapon tomorrow. EG no one would object to you using a fixed blade panga / machete/ fixed blade / hatchet / hawk in a wild camp site in a remote rural area, but they MAY arrest you if you travel on a bus or train to that remote location. A couple of years a go a carpenter on a job decided he fancied a pie and a pint for lich, so he popped into a pub still with his tool belt around his waist ( stops em getting stolen) a cop spotted him going into the pub and arrested him for possessing dealy weapons in a public place. ( charges got dropped later but its shows the almost Marxist logic of todays British police). Recently our " bobbies" tazered an elderly disabled BLIND gent in Derby for the crime of carrying what they thought was a Samurai sword in public, it was a white blind persons cane.
Having a fixed blade for a specific job is legal like a camp site, but venture into the village or hop a bus with it and even if its secure in the bottom of your rucksack if a cop stops and searches you and finds it , theres a 50 /50 chance you will be arrested.
The trouble is since guns were banned in the UK making us so much safer ( gun crime rose by 50% in the following 5 years) many city gangs ( sadly mainly ethnic gangs) have taken to roaming London, Birminfham, Leicster, etc with huge great knives and swords, I believe over 250 young ethnics have been stabbed in London last year, so of course the left wing media starts screaming about banning knives, swords, axes etc but they forget to say "" IN URBAN AREAS""
Having a fixed blade for a specific job is legal like a camp site, but venture into the village or hop a bus with it and even if its secure in the bottom of your rucksack if a cop stops and searches you and finds it , theres a 50 /50 chance you will be arrested.
The trouble is since guns were banned in the UK making us so much safer ( gun crime rose by 50% in the following 5 years) many city gangs ( sadly mainly ethnic gangs) have taken to roaming London, Birminfham, Leicster, etc with huge great knives and swords, I believe over 250 young ethnics have been stabbed in London last year, so of course the left wing media starts screaming about banning knives, swords, axes etc but they forget to say "" IN URBAN AREAS""
Raider, we have some pretty incomprehensible knife laws here too.
I recently found out that I've been breaking the law a couple of times a year for 20 years - every time I go through Alabama to go deer hunting in Mississippi. "Bowie knives" are illegal to carry concealed in Alabama. And every skinning knife made is classified as a "Bowie" regardless of the shape of the blade. Having one in your vehicle is considered concealed. So transporting any hunting knife in a vehicle is illegal in Alabama.
You can, however, walk into any Walmart in Alabama and buy one. You just can't take it home legally unless you walk home carrying it in the open. In fact, any single edged knife that can't fit in your pocket is legally classified as a Bowie Knife in Alabama. Which means that if you buy a chef's knife and carry it home in your car, you are breaking the law.
Switchblades, balisongs, two edged daggers, and stilettos, however, are perfectly legal to carry concealed in Alabama...
I recently found out that I've been breaking the law a couple of times a year for 20 years - every time I go through Alabama to go deer hunting in Mississippi. "Bowie knives" are illegal to carry concealed in Alabama. And every skinning knife made is classified as a "Bowie" regardless of the shape of the blade. Having one in your vehicle is considered concealed. So transporting any hunting knife in a vehicle is illegal in Alabama.
You can, however, walk into any Walmart in Alabama and buy one. You just can't take it home legally unless you walk home carrying it in the open. In fact, any single edged knife that can't fit in your pocket is legally classified as a Bowie Knife in Alabama. Which means that if you buy a chef's knife and carry it home in your car, you are breaking the law.
Switchblades, balisongs, two edged daggers, and stilettos, however, are perfectly legal to carry concealed in Alabama...
Silent Earth
A True Doomsday Prepper
Balisongs, Flick knives, Auto openers, gravity knives , etc all illegal in the UK, but wait aint as bad as the Vikings in Denmark they are not even allowed single handed opening knives. Isnt socialism wonderful, vote Democrat and find out
Gazrok
A True Doomsday Prepper
Ban the knives, and then the gangs will simply use clubs and bats.
Banning the weapon does NOTHING to inhibit the behavior folks. They'll simply find another weapon. All you do in banning the weapon is disarm citizens.
Silent Earth
A True Doomsday Prepper
Gazrok you are missing two points
(1) if they ban knives they just buy guns that pour into the UK from the EU from Eastern Europe.
(2) Banning knives, guns, batons, sprays etc has NOTHING to do with fighting crime in the UK. All of the prohibitions are solely designed to improve the states control over the populace.
(1) if they ban knives they just buy guns that pour into the UK from the EU from Eastern Europe.
(2) Banning knives, guns, batons, sprays etc has NOTHING to do with fighting crime in the UK. All of the prohibitions are solely designed to improve the states control over the populace.
Disarm the public and you can be mugged with a sharpened screwdriver like was poppular in the big Cities in the 1970's . Look at how the average citizen in NY City was so use to to being mogged that they learned to just hand over the wallet and begg not to be hurt . Gulieanie ( spelling of former NY Mayor ) went a a long way at cleaning up the streets but that may change with the recent policies of the current Mayor .
Yes and Giuliani was vilified by the left for being so "heartless."
Clyde
H.M.F.I.C.
I fall under a loop hole that allows me to have martial arts weapons in the car.... yes, if I used them I might be in a serious legal shit storm, but better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6, but I always have a knife on me, and I would like to take the 5th Amendment on the 1911 i sometimes carry.... Oh damn! did I say that out loud?
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