PURSUED PROGRESS

A DECADE OF SWITCHBLADE BAN REPEALS

BY KNIVES ILLUSTRATED STAFF

Back when Doug Ritter founded Knife Rights, there were just a handful of automatic (switchblade) knife makers in the U.S., the major ones being ProTech, Microtech and Benchmade. Doug recalled, “Most folks I spoke to about my Knife Rights idea were skeptical. Many ridiculed the idea, saying we didn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of getting rid of long-standing knife bans, and especially switchblade bans, and that nobody needed to waste time or money on the effort.” With Knife Rights’ repeal of switchblade bans in 16 states since 2010, there is now a flourishing market in automatics available to you with over a dozen major manufacturers, as well as many smaller ones. Major brands such as Buck, Böker, Gerber, Hogue, Kershaw and SOG have added autos to their line-up.…

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Knives Illustrated (Digital) - 1 Issue, May - June 2020

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