Gerber Legendary Blades is an American manufacturer of knives, multitools and outdoor and military equipment, based in Tigard, Oregon. Founded in 1939 by Pete Gerber in Portland, Oregon, the company is the largest maker of knives and multitools for the United States armed forces, and has been owned by the Finnish company Fiskars since 1987. Its products include fixed blade and folding knives, multitools and tactical equipment for both civilian and military use, among them the LMF II Infantry Knife, the Gerber Mark II combat knife and the Bear Grylls survival knife line launched in 2010. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Gerber is the "largest maker of knives and multi-tools for the United States armed forces." The LMF II Infantry Knife, features a partial tang blade instead of a full tang blade, ostensibly to avoid electric shocks because the knife was designed to free pilots from downed aircraft.
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Gerber Legendary Blades is an American maker of knives, multitools, and other tools for outdoors and military headquartered in Tigard, Oregon. The brand was established in 1939 by Pete Gerber, and is owned now by the Finnish outdoors products company Fiskars.
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