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The kukri (English: / ˈ k ʊ k r i /) [2] or khukuri (Nepali: खुकुरी, pronounced) is a type of knife or short sword with a distinct recurve in its blade that originated in the Indian subcontinent. It serves multiple purposes as a melee weapon and also as a regular cutting/chopping tool throughout most of South Asia.
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Cold Steel, Inc., is an American retailer of knives/bladed tools, training weapons, swords and other martial arts edged and blunt weapons.Founded in Ventura, California, the company is currently based in Irving, Texas, after an acquisition by GSM Outdoors in 2020. [1]
According to Fairbairn, the smatchet was an ideal close-combat weapon for those not armed with a rifle and bayonet: [4]. The psychological reaction of any man, when he first takes the smatchet in his hand, is full justification for its recommendation as a fighting weapon.
Many of the killings in the 1994 Rwandan genocide were performed with machetes, [10] and they were the primary weapon used by the Interahamwe militias there. [11] Machetes were also a distinctive tool and weapon of the Haitian Tonton Macoute. [12] In 1762, the British captured Havana in a lengthy siege during the Seven Years' War.
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A Times analysis shows that LAPD officers continue to open fire despite policies intended to reduce shootings of people who hold a knife or other sharp weapon during a behavioral crisis.
Microtech Knives, Inc. is a knife manufacturing company, famous for its automatic knives, [2] that was founded in Vero Beach, Florida in 1994, and operated there until relocating to Bradford, Pennsylvania in 2005 and to Fletcher, North Carolina in 2009.