A "military-grade" knife?

Military Grade ?
OH, you mean those knives which are cheaply mass produced for an army, on contract, by the lowest bidder ?

I prefer to call them assault knives....but think they should go after rental assault vehicles first....

Best quote:

"The Daily Fishwrap... er I mean KOMONEWS" said:

with first-degree murder in connection with the death of the woman who was stabbed 12 times by a military-grade knife, according to court documents filed in the case.

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That's right chief. The knife did it. Not the messed up, misguided former homeless guy living (presumably) in free housing.

Although the prosecutor's "unable to escape or fight back against the defendant's rage and blade" is pretty rich too.

Not meaning to downplay this horrible act, and I hope that, for once, Seattle prosecutes a crime. But the guy could have used almost any edged weapon. A regular kitchen knife is just as lethal.

Anything to scare the mass produced sheeple! To dumb to think and do for themselves!

Ka-Bar is one of the most common knives made. Efficient things are developed by the military, during wartime.
You don't hear anybody sniveling about "Military Grade GPS", or "Military Grade LoJack".


Are Eggs, Bacon and Milk a
"Military Grade " breakfast ? Just asking, because that fatty, cholesterol laden crap has killed more folks
than every bayonet in existence, but you don't hear anybody whining about it.

Dibbs said:

Ka-Bar is one of the most common knives made. Efficient things are developed by the military, during wartime.
You don't hear anybody sniveling about "Military Grade GPS", or "Military Grade LoJack".


Are Eggs, Bacon and Milk a
"Military Grade " breakfast ? Just asking, because that fatty, cholesterol laden crap has killed more folks
than every bayonet in existence, but you don't hear anybody whining about it.

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Well, anybody but Vegans.......

More linguistic gymnastics to promote a narrative.

The simple truth is that, in that particular scenario, a Chef's knife would have been just as, or perhaps MORE, effective than a Ka-Bar.

Until people reject being manipulated by news organizations, it won't stop.

Larry

jmorris said:

I prefer to call them assault knives....but think they should go after rental assault vehicles first....

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Especially the cars that have the automatic transmissions.

Shanghai McCoy said:

Especially the cars that have the automatic transmissions.

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Fully automatic transmissions and now they are making ones capable of driving without human input. They should drive them straight to jail,

Ask any EMT or cop what is used in most knife attacks and they'll tell you it is a kitchen knife or a steak knife. Most are cheap (or stealable) and readily available.

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And this is the reasoning why they want to limit the availability of them or tax them into non existence. Just have to start with the “evil” ones first. This way over time they can get them all.

hso said:

Ask any EMT or cop what is used in most knife attacks and they'll tell you it is a kitchen knife or a steak knife. Most are cheap (or stealable) and readily available.

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Not sure if it's still true, but we were taught the most common stabbing weapon wasn't even actually a knife-it was a screwdriver.

Anything with a pointy end is essentially a stabbing weapon in waiting. The average garage toolbox is a weapons case, if folks start thinking outside boxes.

Larry

hso said:

Welllll, a screwdriver was what the guy in St. Louis used on me 20years ago. Back then it was one of the very common tools used by criminals serving a dual purpose.

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IIRC, it was also the weapon of Bernie Goetz' attackers.

I think that data point came from Caliber Press' "Surviving Edged Weapons Attacks", a training video that probably saved my life a couple times (3 knife attacks, not a scratch. It's nice to be lucky when it counts.)

Larry

The news media loves theatrical phrases. "Military grade", go along great with "bomb" storms and "Murder" hornets.

If it sells one more paper or attracts your attention for a few seconds more on line, you know they'll use it. And if an exploitative phrase doesn't exist, they'll invent one.

I've had knives pulled on me in NYC, but the owners were at least intelligent enough to discard them when requested. The gun pointed at them might have helped shape their decision.

Very dangerous... .

I once told a knucklehead never bring a knife to a gunfight as drew down on him. All of a sudden he had somewhere else to be.

The sad truth is that we're in the middle of the second age of "yellow journalism" and it's something we need to teach our kids (and grandkids) about... Stuff is written up and placed in front of a gullible public every minute that is meant to persuade - not inform. It started long ago but reached a frenzy after 2016... Bad enough when it's used to sell products of every kind - downright dangerous when it's used to manipulate public policy.

"Dr" Joseph Goebbels (Hitler's propagandist...) is probably laughing in hell watching what we've done to ourselves in our popular media and culture....

If our current "president elect" is any indicator... he's the result of all that's wrong with journalism these days. If someone told me their young son or daughter had entered the field of journalism these days my first response would be "Gee.. that's too bad..."

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Yeah, to the user. If the army had more room, they would have stamped "USUALLY SO DULL" on the handle.

Dibbs,

That was because you were not doing it right. Mess kit knives ( as I have written about often) were frequently carried as "downtown knives" in my unit in home made sheathes made from the carboard dress shirts came from the cleaners folded on and "Hundred Mile an hour tape" I never found one or had a guy bring me one that could not be sharpened to hair a cutting edge. I sharpened the heavy zinc handle type , the WWII lightened zinc handle type like Waldo shows and the stamped one piece and they all took very sharp edges. The idea was that if you needed a knife it beat not having one AND if you needed to toss it, it was no loss and easily replaced. Seldom did we spend a week in the field that several were not lost... oddly more often than spoons or forks, go figure.

A German Police friend once showed me a drawing of what a German coronor thought the weapon used in a murder was and guess what it looked like? I had to explain that I could not say whose knife it might be as EVERYONE had one like that issued to them.

As everyone was actually issued one I suppose you could rightfully say they were "military grade" knives.

We used to joke that the mess kit spoon they issued us doubled as an entrenching tool.

-kBob

...and I carried one of those "German Army Butter Knives" in uniform and out for two years and one was part of how I managed to Make E-3 / PFC the second time... from the E-5 list...

It was seized and then given to the Armorer for destruction and disposal... so while performing part of my "and seven days extra duty" the armorer through it in the arms room waste basket between where we were working and pronounced it distroyed and disposed and then asked me to take out the trash.

The troopies were convinced "Kampfmesser" meant Camping Knife....

I then only wore it away from main post and no one said diddly. It was stolen six years later from my POV in Lawton OK while I was posted to Fort Sill.

I bought a replacement at an Orlando gun show but it is just not the same while being exactly alike if you get my drift.

-kBob

I wish Kabars were still military issue. Thankfully I brought my own. "Military-grade knife" is just scary buzzwords.