Thanks Doug for the clarification.

Whenever I pull out my Wave or any other knife I'm carrying and others are watching, I always try to make it look as cumbersome as possible to open - you need both hands, and several distinct motions in order to get it open and locked - the last thing you want to do is convince someone that you're carrying a "switchblade" that you can whip out at any moment and wreak havoc.

One of the things that makes me comfortable with using something like a Wave is that despite whatever a cop may think, or however proficient I am at opening the thing in the blink of an eye, there is substantial case law demonstrating that it is not a "switchblade" or anything like that. And we all know that in law, case law (i.e. what somebody decided previously, for whatever reason) takes precedence over common sense.