Talk:P-38 can opener

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[edit] Useful information?

some p-38 are labeled "mil j-0837" this seems like useful information to me but only some are stamped this way. It is shown on http://www.georgia-outfitters.com/page52.shtml so it is sourced.

[edit] "Harmless"

The last paragraph contain a POV issue: "Airport security personnel who are unfamiliar with this harmless device have been known to confiscate these can openers from these people because of the presence of the tiny sharpened surface." Is the P-38 can opener a "harmless device"? According to "Creative uses" section, the can opener can be used to gut a fish and as a box cutter. I hardly consider that to be harmless. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jumping cheese (talk • contribs). ^Right, cause terrorists are gonna take over a plane with a 1.5" stamped steel tool,right?

I carry a P-38 to this day, and a ball point pen is more dangerous then a P-38. And having flown many times, I have never had a screener look twice at it. 72.161.165.44 20:25, 22 November 2006 (UTC)