Aaron Moore joined his father Larry’s company in 2002. Shortly thereafter Laserlyte introduced what cheaperthandirt.com calls a “tongue-in-cheek pistol bayonet.” Apparently, there was much merriment to be had from this pistol-mounted pig sticker. And that’s before anyone discussed recoil or holstering issues. “[Aaron] chuckled and said, “Yes, That idea actually came up while having a few beers with someone from KA-BAR. We were initially joking about it at first, but the next day I kept thinking about it. I talked to my father about it, and he thought it was a crazy idea at first, but I kept developing it. I drew up a design and he still thought it was crazy, and when I went back to KA-BAR with it they thought I was crazy too. Eventually we got to the stage where we were tooling up for production, which is very expensive, and everyone still thought it was a crazy product. But, we stuck with it [so to speak] and people loved it.”
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