A rigid, hand-held manual surgical instrument designed to be introduced through the working channel of an endoscope and/or an endoscopic port (e.g., laparoscopic port) primarily for grasping and manipulating tissues during endoscopic surgery. It has proximal controls (e.g., scissors-like handles), a rigid long slender shaft, and distal grasping jaws; it is not an electrosurgical device and is not dedicated to biopsy. This is a reusable device.