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Too funny.
But you know, we're sometimes our own worst enemy. There was an ad here on NES for a slide for a G34 that I was interested in. But the buyer had two conditions, face to face and he would only sell it to someone with an LTC-A. And I'm looking at that and going "what?". I understand face to face, sort of. If you don't want to deal with the hassle of shipping. But - LTC-A for a slide? It's NOT a firearm.
I can imagine the British version of the NES Classifieds;
“ZOMG! IN London! Kershaws 2013 pocket folder in 440C with original plastic handle slabs!!! Get them before the Queen comes!!!! $600.00 each!!”
One of the guys from my local club here, that I shoot with sometimes, is the "Sales Manager / Instructor" for a "Firearm Sales and Training" facility here. I was in his shop one day picking up something or other and saw a bunch of auto knives in a counter display. Said something about them, and he was like "of course you can buy and carry them - this is Georgia".
I'm so used to Connecticut laws, and traveling through New England and the Mid-Atlantic states. Auto knives are illegal - unless you're a "special person". Owen was laughing at me.
So now I have a Benchmade auto knife to go along with the classic switchblade my brother smuggled back from Germany some 20 years ago.
What someone needs to do is open an ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) complaint with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts stating that assisted-opening knifes make it possible for the user to open a folding knife with a disability...
I'm sick of Mass's shit...
NFA guns for the handicapped too?!
I had bought the same cheap Kershaw knife (stainless steel "Volt"; a $25 knife) on ebay last year sometime and I liked it a lot until the spring broke. I used that knife hard and for $20something its worth it to just buy another. I'll be buying it on ebay regardless, but WTF Amazon! pansies.
I have speedsafe that’s been sent back them 4 times at no charge but that’s a nice $80 U.S. knife. The Volt is cheapo China and not serviced. I checked.Call Kershaw, they will send you plenty of springs for free! Easy to change out as long as your handles aren’t pinned.
I have a 13 year old SpeedSafe Blur on it’s 4th spring.
Edit- believe the actual name for it is a torsion spring.
I have speedsafe that’s been sent back them 4 times at no charge but that’s a nice $80 U.S. knife. The Volt is cheapo China and not serviced. I checked.
I took the knife apart and the spring is so simple. Maybe someone makes an aftermarket replacement but probably not, such a cheap knife. Good quality for the money though.
I hear ya, and it is retarded to think that a knife that opens with a spring vs a finger flip is somehow more dangerous. It’s ludicrous (and not in the rapper way).
They’re still imagining the old mafia movies of holding it against someone’s back and flipping the switch for “a silent kill” type of scene. The stupidity involved in their thinking is beyond comprehension.
Personally, auto knives are a novelty to me, way overpriced and never carried because they’re just not reliable, they’re safe queeens for the rich. I’ll take a good folder or small fixed blade anyday for half the price and 100% reliability.
For the record anybody that does want one around here can just take an hour drive to NH and there are stores full of them for sale right next to the pot pipes and incense, no paperwork needed.