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A Child was harmed for carrying an airsoft gun on the street, luckily he was only shot in the leg. If you have an airsoft gun, please treat it like a real gun. Other people cannot tell the difference.

LAKEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - A 14-year-old boy who allegedly pulled a BB gun from his waistband was shot and wounded by a sheriff's deputy.

Two deputies looking for a parolee Saturday night spotted two 14-year-old boys walking near Monteverde Park and noticed the youths had pistol grips poking out from their waistbands, said Deputy Alba Yates of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

The deputies got out of their patrol car and ordered the teens to put their hands in the air. One youth complied, but the other allegedly pulled the handgun from his waistband, Deputy Bill Spear said.

By Hank Reinhardt
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It’s easy to assume that the kukri shape arrived in India via Alexander the Great and his conquest, which stopped at the Indus River. While such is reasonable conjecture, it may not be the case at all. There’s no evidence to support a direct Greek influence, and the shape had been used in Western Europe centuries before it appeared in India.

Information on early Indian swords is not readily available, but there are rock carvings, drawings, paintings, writings and a very few archaeological finds. None show a forward-angled blade until about 400 A.D. After that, the shape appeared quite frequently and, indeed, seemed to proliferate, supplanting many older, straight-bladed pieces.

By David E. Steele

Though they may seem more appropriate for The Last of the Mohicans or the legend of Paul Bunyan than modern warfare, tomahawks and axes appear to have become indispensable tools for select U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
From the modern mechanized military's point of view, the tomahawk is not so much a weapon as an entry or escape tool. Early on, all Special Forces units had access to a “Modular Entry Tool Set,” which includes a sledge, bolt cutter, hooligan tool and tomahawk. However, troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, including elements of the 10th Mountain Division, quickly found that the tomahawk could be used to open mud and rotten wood structures 90 percent of the time, so they carried only it for such accessing operations, leaving more space for water and bullets.

When To Give A Child That First Knife
By Mike Haskew

One knife-related debate that likely never will be fully resolved centers on the appropriate age for a child to be given, carry and handle a knife. Indeed, there may well be no single answer, and parents and responsible adults everywhere wrestle with it continually.

Children mature at different ages and some will be capable of taking on greater responsibility at an earlier age than others. The consensus for knife safety is that parental involvement in education and assessment of a child’s readiness for such a rite of passage is key.

Taken from GUNS & WEAPONS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
JULY 2005 Issue

A BOWIE & A FOLDER: A very special presentation knife, a versatile do-it-all knife!

TigerSharp Knives, about whom I have previously written, has recently made a giant step forward beyond original innovations that startled the industry. If you have read this column with some degree of regularity , you will remember them as introducing a fixed blade knife with a two-part blade, where the other blade part held a very thin and extremely sharp insert that was the “cutting edge!” The two blade steels differed, as they served separate purposes, somewhat like a razor whereby you replace the cutting edge when dulled. So, what’s new now, you may ask? They have managed to apply the concept to a pocket folding knife, definitely not an easy task.

By Anthony Lombardo

Over the last 10 years, old reliable Camillus Cutlery has freed itself from the chains of producing boring knives. That’s right, boring. Except for wartime, this great American knife making firm produced such ho-hummers like reams of grandpa’s yellow handled whittlers, Hopalong Cassidy’s original lucite handled jackknife, and stacks of rubber handled filet and hunting knives that appealed to the more parsimonious enthusiasts.

The changes at the sleeping giant began with the introduction of the CUDA Quick Action tactical folders. Although innovative and timely, the Quick Action line was a flash in the pan, although long gone, they opened the eyes of Camillus management that the “Tactical” knife market was not a fad and may actually have some legs. Since then Camillus has collaborated with Custom makers like Bob Terzuola, Rob Simonich, Jerry Fisk, and Darrel Ralph to add some spice to their conservative line up of tried and trues

By Anthony Lombardo
Spyderco Chinook II-Clunker or Classic?

I am, in general, a big fan of Spyderco. Company founder and president Sal Glesser is a cutlery genius best known for popularizing serrated blades, pocket clips and one hand opening via their trademark blade hole.