Originally Posted By: haertig
Originally Posted By: Frisket
Very few Knife designs are original...

Ruger *did* claim that they designed this from the ground up. KelTec chose not to patent the P3AT so you are free to copy it. But you can't claim that the copies are your own design.

The Ruger example is an ethical breech that would make me not purchase from them. As far as I know, Benchmade did not make this same ethical breech. Unless they are claiming this is a new Benchmade design. I have no evidence for or against that, so I don't know.


Not an engineer, but most of the semi-autos have some elements that look a lot like John Browning's work, and most of the wheel guns look like Colonel Colt's. All marketing language seems to be a lie at some level, Looking for ethical behavior from gun manufacturers or ad writers will be a tough search.

And when a manufacturer does design something new, they wind up with a funny-looking gun, like Calico and Chiappa .
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