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Originally Posted by Pazuzu
Spring "assist" knives came out a few years ago (oh, 9 or so).
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They've been around a lot longer than that:
"Switchblades are often covered by very specific laws— enacted at times of moral panic by newspapers and films about knife use by criminals.[1] This was most prominent in the late 1950s, when films such as The Wild One in 1954, Rebel Without a Cause and High School Confidential in 1955, the Broadway play West Side Story and 12 Angry Men in 1957 all featured switchblades, and were closely followed by the US Switchblade Act of 1958 (a federal law; individual state laws differ widely). This US federal law was closely followed by the UK Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959." - Wikipedia
I've always had a longing a set of switchblade steak knives, but I don't know why (I'm actually a very slow eater).