Hello,
I've been recently thinking about knife laws in certain countries. My question is straightforward. Why would anybody ban some knife types (OTFs etc...) if they are sometimes quite expensive or not really more dangerous in terms of possible damage? I get that you can probably hide them better and operate with them way faster, but I don't really know any petty thief that would buy 1000 dollar OTF and professional assassin would probably be able to make it's own knife regardless of the laws. There are of course other types of knives that are heavily restricted in many areas like gravity, ballistic and assisted opening knives.
I've been recently thinking about knife laws in certain countries. My question is straightforward. Why would anybody ban some knife types (OTFs etc...) if they are sometimes quite expensive or not really more dangerous in terms of possible damage? I get that you can probably hide them better and operate with them way faster, but I don't really know any petty thief that would buy 1000 dollar OTF and professional assassin would probably be able to make it's own knife regardless of the laws. There are of course other types of knives that are heavily restricted in many areas like gravity, ballistic and assisted opening knives.