For more than a century, the Swiss army knife has been an essential piece of kit for everyone from picnickers and equestrians, to golfers and astronauts.
But now the maker of the pocket-knife, with its red or blue shell and multiple tools, has bowed to what an English judge last week called the “plague of knife crime” by designing a new range without blades.
In response to an increasing number of countries imposing bans or restrictions on carrying knives, Victorinox, the Swiss firm that produces the pocket tools, is in the early stages of developing the first range of bladeless products designed specifically for activities where a blade would not be required.
Swiss army knife maker to produce range without a blade | Knife crime | The Guardian
That will be the dumbest shit I read today.
But then again, if they cater to Stupid and makes them money, so be it.
Here’s a little tidbit
that’ll never fail ya,
Barbie ‘n Ken
have no genetalia.
Sort of like decaffeinated coffee. Useless.
It’s not surprising that a company adjusts to a market. What’s amazing is that there are countries where the people are so infantilized that the so-called “adults” in the country can’t be trusted with a 2 1/4 inch pen knife. Elections have consequences.
If you are using a Swiss Army Knife to commit a violent crime, you are a moron.
I have a tough time keeping that damned blade open when I am using it on simple tasks. Yes, it “locks” into the open position well enough, but any pressure on the back side of the blade (and that translates into anything on the tip, unless you can hit the axis perfectly) will cause it to close.
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I guess if you want to have your victim laugh until they pass out, you would choose a swiss army knife as a weapon. Everyone else would go with something a bit more reliable during a period of mild stress.
If you are using a Swiss Army Knife to commit a violent crime, you are a moron.
I have a tough time keeping that damned blade open when I am using it on simple tasks. Yes, it “locks” into the open position well enough, but any pressure on the back side of the blade (and that translates into anything on the tip, unless you can hit the axis perfectly) will cause it to close.
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No, it does not lock at all; it’s held open by spring pressure. It “snaps” into place, but it’s not a locking mechanism.
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Once upon a time, largely because of this, SAKs — especially the smaller ones — were allowed in a lot of places where more “serious” knives weren’t. They don’t make good weapons; the non-locking blades are just as likely to buckle and injure the user as harm the intended victim. (Realistically, they don’t make great tools, either; the selling points are that they’re easy to carry and mostly work in a pinch.)
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In my youth, I almost always had my SAK (the “Huntsman” model, IIRC); the Boy Scouts swore by them, and I made loads of tinder and kindling and whittled many a walking stick with it. Nowadays, though, I know better and don’t carry anything bigger than 2″ that doesn’t solidly lock open.
If you have the Victorinox Trekker (like yours truly) the blade will lock as firmly as any of the tactical knives you are used.
That is exactly why I put lock in quotes.
The spring steel holds it open, as long as pressure on the blade is on the sharp edge. No where else.
There won’t be any Boy Scouts to buy them anyway.
there will be “boy” scouts, they just will have mommy bits…..
I read a piece where a Victorinox person said that they made a tool for golfers, so what’s the big deal?
I had one of those when I actually played golf. It _had_ a blade. Bad example.
Lying sack of Biden.
Victorinox has been making a knifeless version of thier smallest knife for years. The Jetsetter. It is TSA compliant. Leatherman has also made knifeless tools for years for sensitive locations. If the market demands this, as long as they don’t stop making tools with knives, I have no issue with Victorinox. I’ve wanted them to make a tool with only the smaller blade for international travel. The fundamental problem are the political idiots who try to fix violent crime by banning Swiss Army Knives instead of punishing criminals.
if you can’t carry a knife, how about a medium pair of vice grips? just clamp them onto a convenient body part, nose, lips, ear, balls…. not as practical as shooting the bad guy but it sure is FUN..
Keys. House key, car key, whatever.
Remember to say “Nyuk, nyuk!” while doing this!
While I was in, the scouts disapproved of fixed blade knives, they also recommend strongly against penknives without locking blades. My son’s troop would emphasize that the boys were ALWAYS to cary a stout locking pocket knife unless at school; “be prepared” and all that, and we would check periodically at meetings. Some parents had issues with that; their kids were frequently the problem children too.
As to the land of my birth; in 2008 on a visit, “knife crime” was all over the news following a spate of feral urban youth impalement parties. We joked that if they banned knives it would be “pointy stick crime” next closely followed by “asses jawbone crime”….
Ah yes the old “Cut off my own dick to stop rape” method of crime fighting.