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Tin snips are similar to scissors - they are a combination of two wedges (the blades) and two levers (each blade and the handle it connects to) joined at a fulcrum (the hinge.)
There are many types of simple machines. Tin snips would be a first class lever, as the fulcrum(pivot) is in the middle.

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