All About Pocket Knives

Unk wrote:Gotta get me one of these.......some day...

http://springfield-armory.com/armory.php?model=15

Unk wrote: Yes, I think the folks who said the M1 Carbines didn't have enough stopping power had never been shot with one.

Unk wrote:Hi Willie,

Yes, I think the folks who said the M1 Carbines didn't have enough stopping power had never been shot with one.

For their intended purpose - a light side arm - with a little longer reach than the .45 - to protect the logistics folks and officers - it was a great little weapon.

and I'll tell you - after taking that heavy-assed Garand hog hunting - I wouldn't want to have to carry that thing all the way across Europe! (although it's still my favorite)

According to Anthony Summers, in Conspiracy, Thomas Eli Davis III was
an anti-Castro gun-runner associated with Jack Ruby. Ruby told his first
attorney, Tom Howard, that it would be a problem if Davis name came up.
Seth Kantor finally identified Davis (the Warren Commission had only the
last name) as a former Texas bank robber.
At the time of the assassination, he was in North Africa. Within a
month, he was in jail in Tangier. Morroccan police detained him after
finding "a letter in his handwriting which referred in passing to Oswald
and the Kennedy assassination." The letter was addressed to a New York
attorney. CIA operative QJ/WIN sprung Davis from jail. QJ/WIN was the key
agent in the Staff D (William Harvey) executive action program. Steve
Rivele identified QJ/WIN as Jose Mankel, a Luxembourg-based smuggler.
Tom Davis wsa killed in 1973, electrocuted while cutting a power
line in the course of an apparent robbery. His wife said he had worked as
a soldier of fortune in Indochina, Indonesia, Algeria and Cuba, and she
suspected that he also had worked for the Mafia.
Henry Hurt, in Reasonable Doubt, published a photo of Davis, a
devoted part of a chapter to him, including a summary biography. In
January 1963, Davis got a passport in New Orleans. He became involved in
mercenary activities, and was arrested in Tangier for trying to sell guns.
He spoke fluent Spanish and vaguely resembled Oswald. He admitted using
the name Oswald in his activities. He had approached Ruby about making a
pornographic movie using some of Ruby's strippers. Both were involved with
Robert Ray McKeown in gun-running. He was a professional deep-sea diver,
and trained anti-Castro units in Florida and South America. During 1963,
he was in California and Lousiana. He resembles Silvia Odio's description
of "Oswald." On August 8-10, 1963, "T.E. Davis" was registered at the
Hotel LaSalle in New Orleans (Oswald was arrested August 9 after the
street dispute with Carlos Bringuier).
Davis and his wife left the U.S. on November 2, arrived in Tangiers
November 28, and he was arrested ten days later. Upon his arrest, the
letter was discovered. The NY lawyer was Thomas G. Proctor. On November
22, he was allegedly in jail briefly in Algiers, gotten out by QJ/WIN.
Davis told a reporter in 1964 that, while in Algeria, he used the name
Oswald. He told his third and last wife that he knew who killed President
Kennedy. He died trying to steal copper wire from a quarry.
The CIA denied having a file on Davis; the FBI had 200
pages, but refused to release it on "national security" grounds; the Army
file had been destroyed along with Oswald's in the 1973 file destructions
mandated after exposure of Army domestic surveillance.

FRJ wrote:What a nice old gun, Kaleb. ............ Help me. Is that a 38 special?

It's beautiful.