You wanted red weapons, here you go!
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And yet, you felt the need to make this post.
Yeah, right. No, it is not very on brand. It is so little on brand that you couldn’t even find a picture to refute the claim but instead had find a gun picture.
If you want to be a smarty pants, then at least use the proper name for the blade shape. Its called a Needle Point Blade, not to be confused with a Dagger or Spear Point Blade. And Aldi’s Brand Crofton sells a near Needle Point single edged knife (the middle one):
In a variety of gaudy colors.
Which is why it shouldn’t have been used, or be used more skillfully, as your following picture of the Hood shows that the problem could have been solved by actually making it a Cog pattern and not just a checkers style.
No, because Old Hammer is outdated. Produce one that isn’t over 3 decades old. That is like suggesting that this is being shown on contemporary runways these days:
And none of them are official sources, as far as i can tell, doing the very same search just now. Matter of fact, when i do it i get a random obscure 40k Fan Wiki entry, a bunch of youtube videos (most of them about Space Marine 2), a selection of reddit posts and that is about it for actual 40k content, aside from an ebook with that Title by Black Library… and that is it as Google seems to throw up its hands and goes “i got nuttin” after 1,5 search pages. But i am sure, whatever search engine you used proved to be more fruitful to get those “large number of results”.
I’m a generous soul. 
I thought it went without saying. 40K is so very well-known for its over-the-top and very often-times unsubtle visual design that I’m honestly surprised that you’re actually trying to contest the point.
“Gun picture”? 
I’m not really seeing the resemblance. The Branx Minor Forge combat knife skin more closely resembles the WWII-era Fairburn-Sykes Fighting Knife issued to the SAS and other British Commonwealth special forces, which was often described as or likened to a stiletto on account of its long, narrow, stabbing blade:
Note that both have the “diamond” blade cross-section associated with weapons optimized for stabbing. Note also that the Branx Minor skin is called a “dirk” which is a type of long-bladed thrusting dagger from the Scottish Highlands.
It is a cog-tooth pattern. You’re just not seeing it (consciously or unconsciously).
See, there’s this thing called “affectionate homage”… 
I guess you didn’t hear that mullets are “in” again. 
Of course, the Ultramarines, to cite one example, still use a checkerboard pattern on the left knee guard as part of the Sergeants’ livery, but I expect that you’ll pigheadedly refuse to accept this, too…
In addition to the Imperial Knight gameplay rule, “Death Before Dishonour” is also referenced in the Angels of Death codex supplement (which I expect you’ll try and ignore because it’s from 7th Edition) as well as being the name of a timed mission in the Tacticus mobile game. It’s also invoked verbatim by (then) Interrogator-Chaplain Nakir of the Consecrators during an exchange with Dark Angels’ Grand Master Azrael in Gave Thorpe’s novel The Unforgiven.
I could look for further official examples, of which I’m sure that there are many more, but the ones we’ve already seen thus far are more than sufficient by any reasonable metric to demolish your absurd contention that “death before dishonor” is somehow foreign to the 40K brand.
I used Google. 
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It’s both. The designs can be both lore-relevant/precedented and look bad. I mean, the diagonal red and with stripes look like candy canes.
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You do realize that not only does this picture make you out to be a bully, picking on a kinder person, but also sets an antagonizing tone that goes way beyond what is called for, right?
Anyway, since this is how you choose to engage in this discussion, you are not worth any further serious replies. Have a good day.