sheffield knives

[stevec]

i've just been having a look on sheffield knives website and it appears to be selling a push dagger, or what i think a push dagger looks like. any thoughts on this? maybe the people from british blades could have a look and off their opinions. whole point of this is that i thought that push daggers were verboten

[Diff]

whats the web site adress? :sword:

[ChrisKavanaugh]

Don't forget that Sheffield sells to an international market. The cutlery industry responds to, and also importantly creates demands for product just like the automotive and clothing sectors. Legislation against certain products seems to fuel a perverse demand for items nobody would bother with otherwise! In California I can't buy throwing knives ( who possesses both the skill and stupidity to throw a weapon at an opponent anyway?) a line of hard plastic 'C.I.A.' letter openers ( modern X ray machines pick these up easily,) daggers over 10 " ( so I get a large kitchen knife,) sword canes, butterfly knives, switchblades and gravity knives, a quickly banned Soviet kit for a spring fired Spetsnatz dagger, martial arts throwing stars, push daggers and belt buckle knives TO NAME A FEW :shock: Of course, being banned to carry ( you can legally possess most of this junk, it just stays in the house) creates a demand. Obviously they must have superior qualities to compensate for training or common sense. So, I am severely handicapped going about my daily affairs with a puukko that would make short work of these monstrosities in a real fight ( or more importantly, fixing lunch.)

[stevec]

diff, the web site is
www.sheffieldknives.co.uk

[waldorf]

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i've just been having a look on sheffield knives website and it appears to be selling a push dagger, or what i think a push dagger looks like. any thoughts on this? maybe the people from british blades could have a look and off their opinions. whole point of this is that i thought that push daggers were verboten

Hi Steve, I`d definately call that a Push Dagger!
and I to was under the impression that they were outlawed,
I don`t know if there has been any change, but I remember that
Alan Wood stopped making them a few years back,and commented at the time that the ban on these type of knives was costing him quite a few quid yearly!
Waldorf