Although they feature an entirely different design than a folding blade, major manufacturers consider out the front knives as automatics. That’s because the design utilizes a mechanism that ...

Almost all knives’ product pages will list the ... snappy automatic action that (no surprise here) shoots the blade out the front of the handle body. It also retracts just as fast by reversing ...

To start, automatic knives come in two varieties: OTFs and OTSs. An OTF is an “Out the Front” knife. An OTS, meanwhile, is an ...