![]() ![]() ![]() It’s been done with firearms countless times, such as the furor over “Saturday Night Specials,” and it’s been done with knives. Vilifying a tool for the actions of human beings isn’t new. Various authorities decried the knife’s prevalence among the criminal class, even as New York’s counterculture embraced it. That resulted in media denunciations of the knife, prompting parents throughout the New York area to confiscate 007 folders from the city’s youth. ![]() As the knife proliferated, it inevitably became popular with kids and criminals alike - the people who most often gravitate toward cheap tools. Every corner store sold these crude, wood-handled, rocker-bar locking folding knives. During the 1970s, however, it was plentiful and cheap, particularly in the New York City area. It isn’t even a particularly well made knife. The infamous “007 Knife” isn’t a gravity knife or a switchblade. ![]()
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