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[Request] Knife-buying advice (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/pocketknife

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Hello knife people, I (very much not a knife person) have been suckered in by dual_sport_dork’s posts and am finally biting the bullet and buying one of those knives. I know approximately nothing about knives except what weird knife Wednesday has taught me, which is mostly how to shit talk cursed knock-offs, so I’m hoping for some advice on how to stick the landing of my jump into this hobby.

I’m trying to buy HUAAO’s Bugout 535 ripoff, and this knife-buying-experience is off to a rocky start because the Amazon link on dual_sport_dork’s writeup tells me shipping isn’t available to my region. Maybe this is just seller-related, maybe these knives are illegal in Canada, I don’t know and to be real honest I don’t give a fuck. I found knivesprecisionedge.com, which claims to be a “trusted store” and “100% issue-free” - sketchy as fuck, honestly. Has anybody else used this site? How bad am I about to get scammed?

Assuming they’re at least somewhat legit and ship me this knife, and that it makes it into the country, is there anything I should know about owning a knife like this? Care tips, how not to use it, anything like that? The main thing it’ll be used for is as a camping knife, if that matters.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

maybe these knives are illegal in Canada

Where in Canada are you? Because there's different rules per province/territory. I'm from BC and the laws are written in a super vague manner. There's some bits that are quite clear, no switch blades, no gravity knives etc. Then bits that are like "must be of a reasonable length" that are written so regardless of how big the knife actually is, if you pissed off the officer, or they're in a bad mood and wanna fuck with someone, or they fancy your knife and don't want to pay for one of their own, they can take it or arrest you or w.e...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m in Ontario, but the legality of this knife is much less of a concern to me than whether or not I can actually get my hands on it lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, then open a P.O. box in the states, get it shipped there, go down for a weekend and bring it back up packed in the bottom of your bag locked in the trunk, and don't act suspicious at the border....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Worst case scenario that might be the play, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Other option is to make buddy buddy with someone in the States, ship it to them and have them ship it to you. Problem is if it is illegal, you might have OPP or the RCs come a knockin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That’s where I’m hoping this sketchy website comes in tbh, since they claim to ship worldwide and who knows how thoroughly they label their packages

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Got my fingers crossed for you bud