A Taste for Steel LOL!
There should be no more legal considerations about manufacturing and selling a six inch folder than there are about manufacturing and selling a six inch fixed blade. Whether you want a six inch blade at the end of a seven inch handle is another matter. The little old ladies at temple like the long handle on the CS-VG bread knife.
There are some jurisdictions out there where three inches or some such measure is a legal limit for some or all knives carried concealed or carried in town, but there are very few places where large knives may not be possessed or sold. You may own or sell a nine-inch chef's knife just about anywhere, and you may own or sell a nine-inch "Bowie" knife in most places too. If you carry either of them concealed on your person downtown and come to the attention of law enforcement, you'll be in some legal difficulty in most jurisdictions, and many of those same jurisdictions will give you some grief over a megafolder concealed on your person.
California may be peculiar in that a CS Vaquero Grande in my pocket is lawful, but a 2.5" "bird & trout" fixed blade in my pocket would be a "concealed dirk or dagger," but in most places the conventional wisdom is that a large
working knife is much more politically correct than a small
edged weapon.
The very popular and widely sold Buck 110 is just under four inches, and four inches or 10cm is the usual definition of a "full size" folder, and anything much larger would be too long for most mundane pocket knife duty.
As far as political correctness is concerned, I'd be more concerned about a Gunting in my pocket than an Endura or a Military. Ironically, that is because the very
non-lethal features of the knife, for use in the
closed position to make the wicked repent of their evil ways and live. It's optimized as a weapon and carried "for protection."
My Military, on the other hand, is optimized for heavy duty cutting chores on inanimate objects. The Vaquero Grande is
obviously for yard work or baked goods emergencies. If my Delica, which is the ideal length for slicing bagels, is needed as a weapon, God forbid, it only works by drawing blood. What's the logic of political correctness and incorrectness in knives? There is no logic in it.
But the bottom line on megafolder legality is that it should not be any more a "military/LEO only" product than a six inch hunting/camping/survival knife is "military/LEO only." Anybody who can lawfully buy a "Kabar" should be able to buy a megafolder.
------------------
- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001
