>>2056283pressure is almost always directed away from the lock, if you think about it, it locks the from from closing when presure is applied to the back of the blade, only time that happens is, skinning/gutting i guess, just first realistic thing that came to mind, and then ofcourse batonny chop chop
time my leathermans closed has always been from unextectedly knocking it on the back of the blade on something by accident when doing pipe insultaion or something like that, besides my old Crater c33, it just got worn out
