Supreme x UZI Tactical Striker Pen #11
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
Original — UZI
Tactical Striker Pen #11 (UZI-TACPEN11)
About the original
The UZI Tactical Striker Pen #11 (model UZI-TACPEN11) is a self-defense pen machined from aircraft-grade aluminum with a knurled grip, a hardened stainless-steel striking point for glass-breaking, a stainless pocket clip, and a cap that takes a standard Fisher Space Pen refill. UZI licenses the name from Israeli defense manufacturer IMI and markets its tactical EDC line through Campco, which has sold knives and defense tools to military and law enforcement markets since the 1980s. The TACPEN11 retails around $25 in gun-metal gray or matte black. The Supreme FW16 version came in anodized red or black with the Supreme box logo laser-etched on the barrel and retailed at $48; internals and striking point are unchanged from the stock pen.
About UZI
The Uzi is an Israeli submachine gun designed in 1950 by Major Uziel Gal at Israel Military Industries in Ramat HaSharon, Israel. Gal, born in Weimar, Germany in 1923, drew on the Czech CZ 23/25 to produce a stamped-steel, open-bolt design with a telescoping bolt that wraps the barrel, a layout that shortened the weapon, simplified manufacturing, and put the magazine in the pistol grip. The IDF issued the Uzi to special forces in 1954 and to general units by 1956, and it was subsequently licensed to FN Herstal and adopted by over 90 countries. Supreme has produced apparel using UZI marks under license.
