Got an education in the UK today!

[Borregos]

I have always had a knife in my pocket for at least the last 55 years, so when I travel by air I always put a knife in my checked baggage. Well on this trip to the UK it somehow got lost.
So I went to a hardware store to buy one as I felt really naked without it. Could not find one in the store so I asked the clerk and he replied: 'Oh we have to keep them behind the counter sir, we cannot sell knives or scissors unless the buyer is 18 or older' !!!!!!
However I got a nice little folder for £3.65 (about $7.00)

[Nath]

Yep, dumb aint it! You watch that folder don't give you the urge to harm someone!

Good luck.

Nath.

[66GTO]

Try to buy a knife at WalMart in the USA and you will get the same response (store policy).

I have also been carrying a pocket knife all of my life (at least since I was six years old). I have gone through dozens, mostly from losing them. I finally found my favorite pocket knife at a local hardware store. It is a yellow handle Case XX full size Trapper, with the non-stainless steel blades (chrome vanadium is what Case calls it). I keep it honed and leather stroped so that it will shave hair.

All the men I knew while growing up had one. When my Dad died he had one in his pocket. The blade had been honed so much that it was about half the size it was when new. He had a wooden match stick stuck down in the handle so the blade wouldn't drop so far down he couldn't pull it out.

[Nath]

66GTO. I liked that

Nath.

[bsaride]

Had one in my pocket since I was 8. Took it to school with me every day,
even used it a few times at school, never had a problem and didn't ever
need that "tool" to harm someone.

Tell your politicians its a "tool" not a "weapon", doubt you'd get very far nowadays.

[O.S.O.K.]

Try to buy a knife at WalMart in the USA and you will get the same response (store policy).

I think that's strictly for pilferage control.

Go to the appliance/kitchen isles and they have chef knives hanging on pegs. Go to hardware and you can pick up a machette or ax.

[Griff]

Try to buy a knife at WalMart in the USA and you will get the same response (store policy).

I think that's strictly for pilferage control.
Go to the appliance/kitchen isles and they have chef knives hanging on pegs. Go to hardware and you can pick up a machette or ax.

Ditto. But, you have to watch Wal-Mart, they often have the "famous" US maker actually make the knife sold @ WallyWorld made overseas. 66GTO, know exactly how you feel. I left my favorite Kershaw at home a week or so ago... sure glad I had my spare in the bag, took me a couple of days to remember where I'd put it. Put it somewhere "safe", ya know!

[gamekeeper]

My Dad always had a knife in his pocket and he brought me up the same, as soon as my son was old enough I got him a knife too.
Over here you can carry a street legal knife 3" blade, non locking folder,or if you are out fishing, hunting or camping you can carry a fixed blade of any length "but" if its on you when you go for a pint, you could get arrested for carrying an offensive weapon.

Borregos, if you find a decent gun shop they usually have a good selection.

If you find yourself in Winchester look me up, I'll show you a couple of gun shops.

[kimwcook]

I've always had at least one knife on my personal at all times. I'm getting ready to take a flight across the nation and I'm concerned I won't even be able to carry my pocketknife. I usually pack a handgun 24/7, possibly not being able to even carry a pocketknife is almost like being naked in public.

[Hobie]

I have to go into D.C. and visit a couple of Federal buildings again this weekend. <Sigh>...

[Borregos]

game keeper would love to hook up with you for a chat and visit to any gun shop but on a really tight schedule here. Herts for a couple of days for a wedding then up to Lancs for a couple then Derby, then Norfolk then back home to Canada, maybe next time!

[AmBraCol]

I've always had at least one knife on my personal at all times. I'm getting ready to take a flight across the nation and I'm concerned I won't even be able to carry my pocketknife. I usually pack a handgun 24/7, possibly not being able to even carry a pocketknife is almost like being naked in public.

Don't worry Kim. They WILL NOT allow you to carry ANYTHING resembling a pocketknife in your pocket or carryon. In the suitcase underneath it must go. It's for your own protection you know. And the protection of others. After ALL - you exactly fit the profile of those who never hijacked a plane so therefore you must be kept from going down that road...

I'm halfway seriously considering taking a cruise sometime - Cartagena to Miami or ??? somewhere from whence I could drive up through the US of A w/o setting foot on a plane. I wonder what such a trip would cost as compared to the usual hassle of traveling via air.

[Ysabel Kid]

I've carried a knife on me all my life - since I was about 6. Most boys did, including at school. On more than one occasion a teacher would come up to a group of boys and ask to borrow a knife. Several were produced.

I feel naked without one now when I have to travel by air. I always carry on my bag - airports have lost mine too many times for me to trust them, and even when they do manage to get the bag and me to the same destination at the same time, I hate waiting another 1/2 hour or more until the bag comes out.

My son ("Ysabel Kid's Kid" here) gets so jealous when I tell him about carrying a knife everywhere when I was his age. Drives him nuts. Good thing though - at 10 he already can't stand leftist and Democrats (one in the same)!!!

[66GTO]

My son ("Ysabel Kid's Kid" here) gets so jealous when I tell him about carrying a knife everywhere when I was his age. Drives him nuts. Good thing though - at 10 he already can't stand leftist and Democrats (one in the same)!!!

You've raised him right!

My son made me proud earlier this year. We were in the car during a news broadcast when they played a clip of Obama's favorite preacher, the Rev. Wright, damning America. He asked me who that was saying those things and I told him about Obama attending that church for 20 years. His words to me were "And he wants to be President? No way."

[FWiedner]

I've always had at least one knife on my personal at all times. I'm getting ready to take a flight across the nation and I'm concerned I won't even be able to carry my pocketknife. I usually pack a handgun 24/7, possibly not being able to even carry a pocketknife is almost like being naked in public.

... and another reason that I refuse to fly.

For those who think on such things, there is rarely a deficit of improvised weapons, but I refuse to voluntarily suffer the indignity of having someone dictate what the contents of my pockets may be, having some minimum-wage snot-nose tell me I'm carrying too much toothpaste, or that the (current) pocket knife I've carried for 10 years makes me a threat to airline safety.

I haven't forgotten 9/11, but I am tired of having it shoved up my *** as an excuse to steal my liberty.

[Rustolium]

I have also carried a knife all of my life. My Mom is a school teacher so before school every day we would have to do a knife check before leaving the house, I'd just wait till after she left and put it in my pocket. Most of the time I carried either a Craftsman Stockman or a Boy Scout knife. Nowadays I still carry one and generally have one in every pair of pants. Somebody at work decided they were a FOD hazzard so I'm not supposed to carry here either, but almost everyone does, including the folks that enforce the rules. If I leave home without a knife or my belt I feel naked also. My Dad got a knife from my Mom at their wedding instead of a ring and my Grandpa was burried with his knife and a bit of string in one of his pockets.

[Nath]

Sorry to butt in GK but Borregos when you are in Derby you will be about 30 miles away from me. It's just kinder nice to know
Safe traveling,

Nath.

[Borregos]

Nath
Will be dropping my wife off in Stanley on my way through.
Lived in Spondon for 20 years.
You are right it is kind of nice to know!

[Pisgah]

I've always had at least one knife on my personal at all times. I'm getting ready to take a flight across the nation and I'm concerned I won't even be able to carry my pocketknife. I usually pack a handgun 24/7, possibly not being able to even carry a pocketknife is almost like being naked in public.

The last time I flew they confiscated a tiny pair of scissors (1" blades) that I used to trim my moustache. My onboard "weapons" are a pair of new, freshly-sharpened pencils stashed in an inside-jacket pocket.

[Modoc ED]

When I was a kid in school (1940s & 1950s) we used to play mumbly-peg almost every day at recess. Heck, we even had a couple of the teachers play with us.