I am not a fan of autos. Never have been. They are heavier than manual action folders of the same size. The B/H ratios are always wonky. They are unnecessarily complex with many more fail points. OFTs have fully enclosed handles that make them poor choices for food and fire prep tasks. They aren’t discrete and attract a lot of unwanted attention. They tend to be more expensive than similarly sized manual folders. Most of them have pretty sad amounts of blade play. And they have lots of legal complications (see here). But…
AUTOS
ARE
COOL.
They are so much fun. There is nothing as cool snapping opening and closed a double action auto. For years I have basically ignored them because Massachusetts, my home state, had a ban on them. I could get them in NH, where I work, but I would leave them there. It wasn’t particularly fun. Then Commonwealth v. Canjura happened and now I can carry autos. Don’t expect a ton of them for all the reasons listed above, but there will be more.
Autos are cool. And I agree that the blade/handle ratio on OTFs in particular are out of whack. But they are fun.
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