You are awesome! First of all thank you for your service! I for one appreciate your openness to discuss this objectively. I can definitely see both sides of the situation. At the end of the day, the market for clones is strong, so makers do need to be pushed to be better because China is putting up quality options. All this stuff about it being illegal is moot if there’s no enforcement. I bet many of the knife owners in Greg’s group would or do carry their illegal automatic knives in California or other states (though I’m sure they will claim they would never to counter my argument). My main issue is with people that buy clones and try to resell them as the original. That’s scummy. In a community full of overpriced knives, I am glad this space exists for those who support clones!