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casingpoint wrote:

double edged knives are illegal for civilians to carry (in Texas)

Wonder how many cops in the Lone Star State carry one?

The U.S. Supreme Court says by implication you can carry a knife, and did not specify in Heller an length or edge limitations.

Certainly a knives were commonly owned civilian arms "back in the day." Surely some must have had double edges, further entrenching your right to carry one.

casingpoint wrote:

Reloading ANYTHING at this stage is going to be difficult, if not impossible

Empty a gun in a person-to-person confrontation, you can forget about reloading with multiple attackers. It is now a knife fight, assuming you have one. I hope that is a valid assumption. Because if it is not, you have sacrificed the rest of any advantage you many have unless you are an expert in hand-to-hand combat or can run like the wind. Close and go for the kill. Get the closest strong one first, then one or more weaker ones. The rest will probably be gone at that point, if not before. Reloading is for the range and standoff situations like mall shooters. Great thing about a knife is that it's a repeating arm that never runs out of ammo.


Double Edged Cold Steel Tai Pan

The best combat knife, as explained to me once by a guy in a green beret at Ft. Benning, GA has a double edged blade that cuts both ways when it enters a throat and is thrust back-and-forth in a sideways motion. This individual was conducting training after three tours in Vietnam. I took him at his word.

mr.72 wrote:

DoubleJ wrote:I feel confident in saying that the above poster is proficient at reloading anything in any position, circumstance, state of matter...

I mean, if you follow the forum enough, you'll find out that he went to the Louisiana State IDPA match and did pretty good, even against ol' Jerry himself.

he's too nice to say it for himself, though.

I certainly am not trying to denigrate anyone. However I think in any scenario, there is no advantage to running out of ammo and being forced to reload in order to keep shooting if the threat persists, no matter how perfectly trained you are at such a combat reload. It's always faster to just keep shooting than it is to reload, is it not?