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In Finland the carrying of knives without a permit or job related reason is prohibited in public spaces. Thus the only urban areas where they can nowadays be seen carried openly are garrisons. The puukko is the only civilian item which can be openly worn with combat gear without breaking the regulations, and most conscripts bring their own puukkos with them into military service. It is a custom of Finnish conscripts, Non-commissioned officers, and officer cadets to carry a decorated and engraved commemorative puukko of their year course as a part of thier uniform, not unlike a commemorative dagger. This is rationalized as the carrying of a handy tool, but it also doubles as a symbolic sidearm. However openly carrying a puukko, while technically illegal is not vigriously prevented. Construction workers often go to diners with a puukko hanging from their coveralls and in the rural and Northern parts of the land it is not uncommen to go shopping in the village stores wearing hunting clothes that includes a puukko.  
In Finland the carrying of knives without a permit or job related reason is prohibited in public spaces. Thus the only urban areas where they can nowadays be seen carried openly are garrisons. The puukko is the only civilian item which can be openly worn with combat gear without breaking the regulations, and most conscripts bring their own puukkos with them into military service. It is a custom of Finnish conscripts, Non-commissioned officers, and officer cadets to carry a decorated and engraved commemorative puukko of their year course as a part of thier uniform, not unlike a commemorative dagger. This is rationalized as the carrying of a handy tool, but it also doubles as a symbolic sidearm. However openly carrying a puukko, while technically illegal is not vigriously prevented. Construction workers often go to diners with a puukko hanging from their coveralls and in the rural and Northern parts of the land it is not uncommen to go shopping in the village stores wearing hunting clothes that includes a puukko.  


The puukko has also given the root for [[Finnish language]] verb ''puukottaa'' "to stab".
The puukko has also given the root for Finnish language verb ''puukottaa'' "to stab".


[[Category:Knife]]
[[Category:Knife]]
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