Fist knife
A fist knife is a knife with a blade at a 90 ° angle to the handle . As intended, the handle lies across the palm of the hand, while the blade appears either between the middle and ring fingers or the middle and index fingers. This design enables very compact knives. They are available as so-called "thrusting daggers" with dagger blades and as sometimes so-called "Eskimo knives" with wide blades in "Skinner" shape or as drop-point blades . Due to their design, these enable particularly precise and energy-saving cutting from the wrist and are therefore popular with hunters and the like. Ä., formerly also very popular with furriers , for breaking open , skinning and knitting . Due to the grip position, especially in connection with a dagger blade, a strong stabbing is possible, since the force is distributed on the palm of the wearer and slipping into the blade can be excluded by this way of carrying.
The Qatar , a traditional dagger-like stabbing weapon from Persia and northern India, is not really a fist knife .
Legal position
On the grounds that otherwise groups of offenders would be expected to avoid the other knife types, which are now also prohibited, fist knives have been banned in Germany since the amendment to the Weapons Act of September 10, 2004, only hunters and furriers are still allowed to use them professionally. In Austria there is no prohibition of a certain type of knife, so that fist knives, even if they should be classified as a weapon according to the Weapons Act, are in principle allowed.
Fist knives ( llaves de pugilato or puños americanos ) are also banned in Denmark and Spain .
See also
literature
- David Darom: Art and design in modern custom folding knives . Tipografia Edizioni Saviolo, Vercelli 2003, ISBN 978-965-07-1174-0 , p. 58, 63 (English).