Stiletto
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A stiletto is a specialized dagger with a long slender blade and needle-like point, primarily intended as a thrusting and stabbing weapon.
Stiletto
V-42 stiletto
"Italian stiletto" swichblade, open and closed
Black Hand (extortion)
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Black Hand was a type of organized extortion committed mainly by criminal immigrants from southern Italy, active primarily in the eastern United States during the first quarter of the 20th century in
Stiletto
…immigrants to America frequently purchased or made such knives for self-defense, and the stiletto was used by anarchists as well as by members of various Black Hand organizations to assassinate Italian-Americans and others who either opposed the Black Hand or ignored its demands for blackmail. The Black Hand even…
A New York Police Department wanted poster for Black Hand activity, 1910