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Gear & Equipment => Knives and cutting tools => Topic started by: OnTheFly on March 12, 2013, 12:17:13 AM
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Greetings,
I was looking at a knife that has an assisted opening system. The knife is a typical modern knife with the thumb stud used to open it, but it has a spring that helps to push the knife open once the motion is started. I'm sure there are many names for this type of system, but my question is whether this would be considered a "switchblade" under Lincoln ordinance?
Thanks,
Fly
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They sell them in Wal-Mart, all three locations. That makes it pretty assured it is OK. Hope so, as I use them.
My multi tool by SOG has two power assist blades. It also opens to a pliers like a butterfly knife, so I am really asking for it. lol
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You still have to push it open. Assisted open isn't the same as auto-open.
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Thanks all!
Fly
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Try a Benchmade folder with Axis lock. Best of both worlds
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"switchblade"
Live dangerous Fly, just get a real switchblade. Next time you fly to Mexico you should be able to get one easy. :laugh:
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Live dangerous Fly, just get a real switchblade. Next time you fly to Mexico you should be able to get one easy. :laugh:
Yep...In Mexico, all it take is money and you can pretty much get whatever you want. ;D
Fly
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They sell them on amazon and ebay.
Lincoln has a no humor policy on long knives, auto knives and butterfly knives. If you get caught owning one, even hidden in your private home, busted !
There is a machine shop in Beatrice that makes auto knives for the FBI and police depts. Pretty cool knives. Fancy ones go for about five hundred bucks.
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Live dangerous Fly, just get a real switchblade. Next time you fly to Mexico you should be able to get one easy.
Hell with Mexico .....wait a few more Months and you can simply drive to Kansas and buy one.
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Kershaw makes a speed safe knife
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Odd that this topic came up...I've been scouring around for a butterfly knife and can't seem to find one. I used to have 3 or 4 and loved playing with them. I'm not even looking to carry it (though they are very useful when working on everyday projects) but mostly just to have around here at home. I'll run across one someday, until then, I think I'll get an open assist knife :)
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Odd that this topic came up...I've been scouring around for a butterfly knife and can't seem to find one. I used to have 3 or 4 and loved playing with them. I'm not even looking to carry it (though they are very useful when working on everyday projects) but mostly just to have around here at home. I'll run across one someday, until then, I think I'll get an open assist knife :)
Butterfly knife in Nebraska will get you three hots and a cot. My multi tool works somewhat like a butterfly knife, but in doing that same action, I get needle nose. Not very deadly. lol
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One of the knives I used to have was only 3.25", that was the one I carried when fishing, etc. I may be wrong, but as long as the blade is less than 3.5" in length and doesn't open automatically, it should be legal (except in Hastings of course ::) )
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I am reminded of another of my favorite quotes
"Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so." Ronald Reagan
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Kershaw makes a speed safe knife
I've been happy with the Speed Safe system on my Kershaw knives.
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Butterfly knife in Nebraska will get you three hots and a cot.
How so? There may be some restriction in particular cities, but I don't see anything in the Nebraska Statutes that defines a butterfly knife, much less outlaws one.
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Butterfly knife in Nebraska will get you three hots and a cot.
I purchased several of these in a local pawn shop back in 1980-somethin' ..... when did such become illegal?
So long as you did not conceal it .....
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Maybe it is a Lincoln law? I cannot remember where I heard it. Sucks getting old. lol
I went and looked, and found nothing in the books, except Lincoln does not want switchblades, and Nebraska does not want any blades over 3.5" in length.
http://www.ebladestore.com/knife-laws-50-states.shtml (http://www.ebladestore.com/knife-laws-50-states.shtml)