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In the late 1990s, the Global Research and Development (GRAD) Company designed the world’s first production fixed-blade knife that held a multi-shot firearm inside its grip.

GRAD produced four knives, three of which contained working 22LR double-action revolvers.  Each knife featured a high-quality, 440C heat-treated, high-carbon stainless steel, single-edged fixed blade. Inside the grips lay the revolver cylinder and a 1.75-inch rifled barrel. In the lower half of the knife handle a spring-loaded trigger lever could be pulled down and when depressed would fire the revolver. The barrel’s muzzle was shrouded by the top half of the grip and fired over the top of the blade through the knife’s hilt.

To load and clean the revolver, the grips separated and folded open, allowing access to the concealed gun.

They came in several variants.

The Hybrid Standard Edition had black aluminum checkered grip panels and held a 5-shot revolver.  A deluxe 22-karat gold-plated Millennium version of the Standard had a highly hand-polished blade and frame.

The Hybrid Bayonet held a 6-shot revolver and mounted to the standard NATO bayonet lug on the M16/AR-15-style rifle. The bayonet version could be fired either mounted or unmounted to the rifle. The knife-only version, the Model RS1N, was the base knife with no barrel or firing assembly.

Across all versions, fewer than a thousand of these weapons were made. The company history is murky; they seem to have folded around 2007 and, as such, have no warranty or production to fall back upon.

The firearms versions are all NFA Title II weapons and are transferable under the $5 Any Other Weapon clause. When new and still in production, they sold from $699 for the Standard models to $1999 for the gold-plated series. Today, if you can find one, they are basically worth whatever the market will pay and are rare at any price.

And the ATF generally frowns on keeping and/or selling them, or any other neat AOW such as cane guns, without the proper paperwork.