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AKTI STATEMENT -
AKTI Opposes U.S. Customs’ attempt to classify assisted-opening knives and all one-hand opening knives as switchblades.

Customs’ proposal will make criminals of 35.6 million Americans.  The definition of a switchblade or automatic knife has been clear and explicit in federal law since 1958. There have been several state court cases in California, Texas, Illiinois and Michigan on the issue of assisted-opening knives.  Every judge in every case has ruled they are not switchblades because they do not possess an activating button on the handle.

In fact, AKTI’ s bill on the Texas governor’s desk now clarified their statute, reaffirming the 50-year old federal definition, and clearly distinguishing one-hand openers and assisted-openers from knives classified as switchblades or automatics.

Be warned,  AKTI fears that all folding knives will be at risk.  U.S. Customs’ proposal indicates it is directed at only the importers of assisted-opening knives. However, the language used in their revocation document is so broad and uses virtually every term ever applied to any knife that opens with one hand. We fear that they are attempting to bypass the will of Congress and that once they succeed in getting assisted-openers defined as switchblades, they could move against all folding knives. These include multi-tools, traditional pocket knives, one-hand openers, and assisted-openers.

If you want to view a video of what AKTI fears about this situation and about your being branded a criminal if you carry a folding knife, go to . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5KINtCajwI

AKTI’s Knife User Data ( http://akti.org/PDFS/AKTI-KnifeUserData.pdf ) documents that at least 35.6 million folding knife users would become de facto criminals if Customs has their way. AKTI’s Talking Points ( http://akti.org/PDFS/AKTI-CustomsTalkingPoints.pdf ) tells you in simple language what Customs is really trying to do. Share these documents with other knife owners and your elected representatives at the federal and state level.  . When you are write letters or emails on this issue, you can use this data.

AKTI learned, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on June 10, 2009, that U.S. Customs has denied the AKTI request for an extension of the comment period.

We must now ask our national lawmakers to help us. That should be the first letter you write.
You can find out who your lawmakers are and their email addresses by going to .

Find your congressional officials
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

Review our communication suggestions  
http://akti.org/legislation/communicate.html

This is the absolute # 1 action step you must take TODAY.
Please use one of the following letters to email your lawmakers (You can also follow up with a copy sent via regular mail or fax to help reinforce your request. If you know the lawmaker, please call them. Even if you don’t know them, an assistant will make a note of your concern and convey it to the lawmaker.)

Be sure to personalize your letters
Individual Letter to Legislators as Word Document (.doc)
http://akti.org/PDFS/AKTI-LegislatorIndividualLetter.doc

Individual Letter to Legislators as Rich Text File (.rtf)
http://akti.org/PDFS/AKTI-LegislatorIndividualLetter.rtf

Company Letter to Legislators as Word Document (.doc)
http://akti.org/PDFS/AKTI-LegislatorCompanyLetter.doc

Company Letter to Legislators as Rich Text file (.rtf)
http://akti.org/PDFS/AKTI-LegislatorCompanyLetter.rtf

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* How to keep your emails laser-focused

* How to create an outline that practically
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I liked this video, because it talked about one
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Michael breaks it down, and reveals:

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* Techniques for personalizing the subject line.

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I was surprised to find that I was making some of
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This is where a lot of people slack off when
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* The 4 different kinds of P.S.’s you can use
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I loved this video, because it showed me some
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* 3 different ways to add scarcity to your
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LAMINATED GLASS is made by a vinyl or plastic interlayer sandwiched between two layers of glass. This type of glass adds additional strength to your windows. To gain entry, a burglar would have to strike the glass repeatedly in the same spot in order to make a small opening. Most burglars are reluctant to create this type of noise for fear of being detected.

TEMPERED GLASS is made by placing a piece of regular glass in an oven, bringing it almost to the melting point, and then chilling it rapidly. This causes a skin to form around the glass. Fully tempered glass is four to five times stronger than regular glass.

WIRED GLASS adds the benefit of a visible deterrent. Extra effort will be needed to break the glass and then cut through the wire located within the glass, in order to gain entry.

PLASTICS: Plastic material is divided into two types: acrylic or polycarbonate. The acrylics are more than ten times stronger than glass of the same thickness…

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Begin with a home “security” check. Start with the front door and work clockwise around the entire inside of your home, finishing with the back yard, fence and shrubs, gates and garage.

Shrubbery should never block the view of your front door. This allows an intruder the opportunity of privacy to gain entrance. A wide-angle viewer in the door lets you know your visitor in advance. This item is recommended over a chain lock.

LOCKS, BOLTS AND HINGES -

A DEAD-LATCH is an inexpensive lock set which keeps the burglar from simply slipping your door open with a plastic credit card. This method of entry is common in many areas, but very easy to prevent.

AUXILIARY DEADBOLT: 1″ deadbolt, single cylinder with hardened cylinder guard, and thumb turn.

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There are a few stories on the background of this pattern, but the consensus is that this odd looking knife was produced as a working man’s knife, as well as a tool for the hunter/camper.

Mr. Harvey Platts writes in The Knife Makers Who Went West, a fascinating historic catalog of his family and the cutlery business, that the massive swell-center produced by his family’s firm was a “rope knife.”

Many knowledgeable dealers and collectors conclude this knife was a knife made for cutting rope. In his wonderful article on Elephant Toenails in The Best of Knife World Volume III, Mr. Joe Seale remembers as a young boy in 1933, this knife being used in the old mercantile stores to cut rope. He writes “There were all kinds of rope sold in this store, the old P. N. Stockton General Mercantile since 1901, specifically huge spools of well rope, calf rope, rope for working livestock, rope for pulling heavy loads.” He remembers the clerk measuring out the rope, then reaching for up for an Elephant Toenail to cut it in the desired length for the customer. One of the stories he recounts is that this knife was used on the early seagoing vessels to work with and repair the big thick hawsers (tow ropes).

An early Napanoch catalog illustrated this knife as a “Napanoch Axe (for the Vest Pocket)” and stated, “The nearest thing to an axe, still can be conveniently carried in the top vest pocket and you would hardly be conscious of its being there. Best thing for Hunters, Campers, Sportsmen, and Linesmen hanging Trolley, Telegraph and Telephone wires.”

Mr. Richard White, in an article in Knives 2002, states that the Sunfish was used in the past as a tool knife by surveyors to cut stakes. He writes, “…because of the massive size and thick blades and backspring, it could be placed on the end of a piece of wood, and stuck with a mallet in order to split off a wooden stake.”

In the Oct 18th 1906 edition of The Youth’s Companion the Jumbo Pocket Knife is shown in an advertisement illustrating the Napanoch Knife Company, Napanoch, NY (1900- 1919) toenail. The caption reads, “Designed especially for that large class who require a knife for heavy work, such as leather or rope cutting, or other similar material requiring great strength.”

In a 1903 Gold Cross Coffee Company Catalog, pocket knives were used as incentives for new clients. In it a toenail was illustrated as “Old Honesty” (a label taken from a Case Brothers Catalog produced around the same time) and the description read “heavy blades and frame, just the thing for lumbermen, teamsters and oilmen. It is an axe, board axe and Jack-knife combined. ”

Marbles Safety Axe (later to be renamed Marbles Arms Co.) of Gladstone, MI in its Hints to Hunters written in 1905 encouraged its readers “…a good hunting knife, and a small pocket or belt axe are about as much importance as any other part of the outfit.”

The elephant toenail was the largest pocket knife offered by Marbles, unless you want to count its Folding Safety Hunter. The toenail was classified as a camping tool and was made under contract by Case Brothers of Little Valley, New York. In its 1905 Marble’s Specialties for Sportsmen catalog, it stated, “the (elephant toenails) have been selected with a view of fully meeting the requirements of our sports-men friends in the woods or in town.” As a side note, the 8250 pictured in this catalog has no tang stamp, but does have the TESTED XX stamped out on the master blade. In both the 1906 & 1907 Marbles catalogs, the knife is shown bearing the M.S.A. CO (over) Gladstone (over) Michigan USA stamps without the TESTED XX stamp/etch on the master blade. Also, understand, just because a catalog depicted a knife in a certain matter, doesn’t mean it was actually produced that way, i.e. without a tang stamp as in the 1905 catalog.

A 1906 catalog of The French Manufacture of Weapons and Cycles of Saint-Etienne contained an ad promoting the toenail. The knife was identified as “The Bulldog” and is characterized as the knife “to satisfy the desires of the sportsmen, motorists, and hunters.”

Again, the reference to the W R Case catalog in which the firm labels the pattern as being “used on sailing vessels”, however, in examining the old sailors knives a clear pattern emerges, which is absent on the Toenail. The old sailor’s knives commonly have a bail. It would seem that being able to free ones hands to hold on in rough water would be important and without a bail, which allows for the knife holder to let it fall to his side, the holder would be forced to try to hold on for dear life while maintaining a firm grip on his valuable “tool” knife. The bail also allows the seaman not to worry about the knife falling overboard. In fact I have only seen one old toenail with a bail. It is a Case Bros. Little Valley with the arc stamping produced around 1900 to 1912.

While Case represented it to be “used on sailing vessels,” I believe its use was more as a general work knife and camping & hunting tool/axe. It also was clearly used for cutting rope; however, in a more stationary place like on a farm, factory floor, a hardware or general mercantile store, or at the dock, rather than on a sailing vessel at sea.

Author: Scott King - www.elephanttoenails.com

The Tactics Of The Knife
A tactical knife is one that can be put to use quickly and will perform mightily in its intended role of “separating” one thing from another. Usually, this feat is accomplished with one hand.We’re not going to spend too much time on the specifics of too many of the breed, but rather concentrate on the “whys” and “what fors” of the family. It would take a book to cover what’s out there, even if we just stuck to “what’s new.” Suffice to say that if you pay your money (between $50 to $250 or more), you can pretty much get something that will keep your kiester out of hot water. Also, they’re all so damn sharp these days you 11 probably cut yourself while you’re fiddling with it. Be advised. In addition to the one-handed opening innovation, Spyderco did something else that rocked the boat — Glesser put a pocket clip on that same funny knife with the hole in the blade. Amazingly, the force shifted significantly and everyone in the blade industry was left in the dust. Suddenly you could lay your hand on your knife quickly and easily, open it and put it to work just as quickly, all with one hand. Sounds pretty “tactical” to us. All those Buck 110 folders quickly became antiques.

Fixing The Problem
Is a fixed blade knife a “tactical knife”? We’d say yes. Perhaps one of the original tactical knives is the Marine KaBar knife. Are bayonets tactical knives? Perhaps not, but then a Ka-Bar was made for one thing — to cut, and cut it did. A generation of Americans relied on their Ka-Bars to save their collective bacon, and the spirit of that knife has generated a slew of new ideas. Look at any “tactical fighter” today and you can see some history behind it. Lots of times that history might be a Ka-Bar. But the only problem is, in today’s world, it’s not socially acceptable to carry 7″ or 8″ of fixed blade on your hip unless you want people to stare and cops to meet you at all hours of the day and night. We must broadly interpret the idea behind the term “tactical knives,” because what might be “tactical” for a schoolteacher might not be up to the job for a Navy SEAL or a beat cop in the “bad” part of town. The knife industry is currently in the midst of a renaissance. There was only a small handful of quality factory makers to pick and choose from 30 years ago, but today, well, hold on to your wallet. Chances are pretty good if you can think it up, someone is making it and probably in several models, to boot! From O1 or D2 tool steel, bone, antler, ivory, wood and micarta we’ve progressed all too quickly to a rash of numbers that are difficult to comprehend. “CPM440V, 410, G-10, 6060T6, Titanium and 440C” all describe fairly common knife components. Tactical usually means high-tech, which means “highly technical,” and for once the term is probably right. Steels, handle materials, blade materials and methods of heat treating, manufacturing and fitting are so far from the technology of only 10 years ago that to say we have a new generation of knives is to understate the obvious by several levels.

Tough Enough
Today’s knives, both folders and fixed blades, are the most rugged, bulletproof, ergonomically-designed tools that have ever been manufactured. For sheer value, money plunked down on a quality folder or fixed blade tactical knife from the likes of SOG, Kershaw, Al Mar, Gerber, Buck, Emerson, Spyderco, GT, Cold Steel, Camillus, Columbia River Knife and Tool, Microtech, Mission Knives, Meyerco, Randall, Benchmade or Timberline (to name just a few) will make you a happy person and the envy of all who see that cool tool riding in your pocket or on your hip. Not to mention it just might actually become indispensable in your daily life. Recently, Gus Grissom’s Mercury space capsule, “Liberty Bell 7,” was raised from the deep after a 40-year sleep 15,000 feet down on the ocean floor. Inside it they found his Randall knife (the No. 17 Astro). After being cleaned up it was found to still be serviceable. An astronaut might have used his Randall knife to pry his way out of his capsule, survive on a desert island or open his space rations — all of which sounds pretty tactical. Perhaps this particular Randall No. 17 (one of two made) might rank as one of the most famous “tactical knives.” The moral of the story is that it’s best to not get caught up in the term “tactical,” but focus on the needs involved. If a 50-year-old Marbles Game Getter is your idea of the perfect knife, then it’s pretty tactical for you. If your tastes run a bit more “new millennium,” check out the newest offerings available over the counter. You’re sure to find more performance than you could ever need. Five Tips For Picking The Right Tactical Knife With the trainload of choices out there it can be tough to choose just the right knife for your needs. In order to manage the chore, start by asking yourself. “What is the job at hand?” If you are honest with yourself, you’ll often find you need much less knife than you might imagine.

The Working Knife
Looking for an every day utility, “working” folder to clip to your pocket, ride at your waist or drop into a purse? Perhaps something to open boxes at work, trim that recalcitrant plant by your front door or cut that old fan belt off the ‘63 Chevy. What’s your price range? For $40 to $50, peace of mind is available in the form of a Spyderco Delica. The stainless blade and synthetic handle make this knife virtually impervious to the elements. If you opt for the serrated blade, you could cut one of the Queen Mary’s mooring lines if you had to — all the while feeling quite tactical.

Rough And Tumble
Got more money to spend and maybe your line of work runs more toward the rough and tumble? Plunk down $50 to $150 and you’ll find yourself with a Kershaw Blizzard, Black Out or Whirlwind, all with Ken Onion’s “Speed Safe” opening feature. Once again, with high-tech steels and handle materials like Polyamide, these knives are tough as nails, perfect for use as hard-cutting tools. Just as tough, or maybe even more so, might be a Cold Steel, Benchmade or Emerson tactical folder. Cutting-edge designs, serrated edges, curves and non-slip handles have created a family of folders suited to be at your side as you patrol the streets, open a parachute, dive to 120 feet or just open your mail.

Let There Be Light
Is lightweight your fancy? Al Mar’s “Ultralights” define the breed. Weighing around 1 to 2 ozs., these slender, pocket-friendly folders have pocket clips, easy one-handed opening and are classically styled. Looking almost like fine jewelry, their good looks hide their tough demeanor.

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