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Re: [89attendees] unlawful in Britain to carry pocketknives that lock

Chris Morrow <morrowc@google.com> Fri, 07 March 2014 23:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [89attendees] unlawful in Britain to carry pocketknives that lock
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On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Murphy, Sandra <Sandra.Murphy@parsons.com>wrote:

> >In the past I talked to people who carry these for own safety, and when
> >taking even the shortest flight or train are surprised.  It happens.
>
> "carry these for own safety" -- pocketknives are not the sort of thing you
> carry for your own safety.  You use them to cut the packing tape on
> packages, the twine on a bundle of newspapers, vacuum formed plastic
> packaging aka clamshells, the envelopes of the evening's mail, the stray
> thread on your jacket, etc.  Some pocketknives are called pen knives
> because they were intended to whittle down the end of a quill.  In other
> words, very light work.
>
>
it's probably just the brits trying to force you to buy british, like this:
http://www.keepshooting.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/f/a/fairborn-sykes-fighting-knife.jpg

example...


> This isn't the sort of thing you use as a weapon, for defense (defence) or
> offense (offence).
>
> --Sandy
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