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For 22 years TOPS Knives has been generating hot knife designs with a relentless passion few other manufacturers can match. Simply look at their catalog. Case closed. The sheer volume of offerings boggles the mind. In 1998 this fledgling Idaho company set out with a dream to provide our military troops with affordable tactical fixed-blade knives to fight the enemy abroad. TOPS caught on like wildfire and the flame is still red hot.
Idaho proved to be fertile ground for TOPS. “The reason we’re in Idaho is that Mike Fuller, who ran TOPS for many years, was looking for a place to settle down.” TOPS’ General Manager and Marketing Director Craig Powell tells Handgunner, “Idaho Falls just spoke to him and that was that. Of course, some of the criteria that made Idaho and Idaho Falls in particular attractive as a place for the company is that cost of living is low and, in general, freedom for businesses and individuals is high. There is definitely a reason there are a lot