TigerhawkT3
Flashlight Enthusiast
Okay, this is a bit of a story, so get comfortable.
Yesterday at work, one of my boss's former assistants came to visit. He was dressed in a full BDU, and he was about to be shipped out to Iraq.
After shooting the breeze with my boss for awhile, we talked, and of course he asked me about all the things on my belt, just like everyone else does. (Inka, Fisher Bullet, keys, L2D-CE, FT-01XSE P4, ACM, SOG B61, Gladius/FM34, cell phone, another L2D-CE.) After he had "ooh"ed and "aah"ed at everything, he showed me his Gerber multitool (a great "Hajji skinner" because of the rubber/neoprene inserts that provide grip even on a bloody tool). As he put that away, he noticed the pocket clip of my SOG Trident outside my pocket and asked me what it was.
Figuring "aw, he's in the armed forces, he'll understand," I pulled it out, turned off the safety and handed it to him so he could gawp at it. Instead of gawping, though, he started on this big lecture about how knives over 2.25" were considered concealed weapons (I told him that it obviously wasn't concealed, since he had seen the pocket clip and asked what it was, but he completely ignored that), and you should know those are illegal, and his CO told them to always have their military ID on them, just in case, blah blah blah.
Of course, he was still impressed with the Trident once he finished his speech.
I didn't like how he gave me a lecture on how scary and illegal sharp things are, I didn't like how he ignored me when I pointed out that the knife WASN'T CONCEALED, and I really didn't like hearing how if you're going to carry a knife, you had better be in the U.S. federal military, or else you're in big trouble.
The funny part is that I have a document signed by the dean stating that I need a knife to do my job, while this guy was carrying sharp objects on a JC campus without the dean's knowledge or permission! "OMG!"
I obviously kept quiet about the beater folder entirely hidden in one of my cargo pockets.
All in all, this encounter left me puzzled and disenchanted, as I thought our Boys were cooler than that. Did I just meet that 0.1%, or is this attitude more common?
I have to say, these CA state laws sometimes seem opposed to Big Two.
Yesterday at work, one of my boss's former assistants came to visit. He was dressed in a full BDU, and he was about to be shipped out to Iraq.
After shooting the breeze with my boss for awhile, we talked, and of course he asked me about all the things on my belt, just like everyone else does. (Inka, Fisher Bullet, keys, L2D-CE, FT-01XSE P4, ACM, SOG B61, Gladius/FM34, cell phone, another L2D-CE.) After he had "ooh"ed and "aah"ed at everything, he showed me his Gerber multitool (a great "Hajji skinner" because of the rubber/neoprene inserts that provide grip even on a bloody tool). As he put that away, he noticed the pocket clip of my SOG Trident outside my pocket and asked me what it was.
Figuring "aw, he's in the armed forces, he'll understand," I pulled it out, turned off the safety and handed it to him so he could gawp at it. Instead of gawping, though, he started on this big lecture about how knives over 2.25" were considered concealed weapons (I told him that it obviously wasn't concealed, since he had seen the pocket clip and asked what it was, but he completely ignored that), and you should know those are illegal, and his CO told them to always have their military ID on them, just in case, blah blah blah.
Of course, he was still impressed with the Trident once he finished his speech.
I didn't like how he gave me a lecture on how scary and illegal sharp things are, I didn't like how he ignored me when I pointed out that the knife WASN'T CONCEALED, and I really didn't like hearing how if you're going to carry a knife, you had better be in the U.S. federal military, or else you're in big trouble.
The funny part is that I have a document signed by the dean stating that I need a knife to do my job, while this guy was carrying sharp objects on a JC campus without the dean's knowledge or permission! "OMG!"
I obviously kept quiet about the beater folder entirely hidden in one of my cargo pockets.
All in all, this encounter left me puzzled and disenchanted, as I thought our Boys were cooler than that. Did I just meet that 0.1%, or is this attitude more common?
I have to say, these CA state laws sometimes seem opposed to Big Two.