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August 20, 2021

Free to Carry Aug 20-22
The AKTI Free to Carry online auction is now live! Every bid you place helps to raise funds for AKTI’s legislative initiatives to remove and clarify knife laws so you are confident to make and carry your valuable tools. Check out the 50+ items donated.
  • Custom knives by Lucas Burnley, Alan Folts, Barry Gallagher, Steve Jernigan, Matthew Lerch, Peter Martin, Richard Rogers, and Ken Steigerwalt.
  • Unique items such as William Henry Aleksius Bracelet and luxury home vacations including a personal chef!
  • Limited edition knives from CRKT, Buck, Case, Smith & Wesson, and Moki Knife Co., and a prototype from Benchmade
  • Kitchen knives from Spyderco and Fox
  • Fishing tools from Bubba and Old Timer
  • And more knives by Benchmade, Boker, SOG, Smith & Wesson, Case, Leatherman, Fox, Chris Reeve Knives, and Spyderco.

Bidding ends at 9 pm on Sunday night, August 22nd.  Anti-sniping rules are in force.  Any bid received within 5 minutes of the auction closing will extend that item’s auction for an additional 10 minutes.  That can continue for no more than one hour.  All bids are final at 10 pm Pacific.

All final bids include shipping to U.S. addresses only.

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