Bushcraft banned!!

[jimbo75]

Sorry folks, but I'm really pi**ed off! Iv'e just been told by a friend that.. He saw loads of Bear Ghryls Machete's for sale over the counter very cheap, whilst he was on holiday!! Are these retailers stupid?? It's only a matter of time before some idiot gets hold of one! This is exactly what happened to airsoft! Cheap knives/guns on view to the public, will only help a government launch an all out ban on knives being sold, (to ANYONE...).
It's madness!!!!

 

[Bushwhacker]

Budding chefs all around the country will have to learn to chop onions with their hands.

 

[Retired Member southey]

calm down fella, pretty much every hunting, camping, kitchen, gardening shop has some kind of knife to buy over the counter, thats some knee jerk reaction your having there dude!

 

[tobes01]

Maybe it'll work out for the best... They might just ban Bear Grylls...

 

[woodgrain]

Maybe it'll work out for the best... They might just ban Bear Grylls...

PMSL

 

[TallMikeM]

Budding chefs all around the country will have to learn to chop onions with their hands.

I hear that bear did just that one time in his shows, but it turned out the film crew bought a bag of pre chopped onions just to make it look like he did.

 

[mountainm]

OMG, I just came back from my post office where they are selling high pressure incendiary devices. Get this - a cannister holds some fuel under pressure. When a button is depressed the fuel escapes at high velocity and is simultaneously ignited by the spark from a flint/steel mechanism. We're looking at mass arson on a scale unheard of before!

 

[Retired Member southey]

OMG, I just came back from my post office where they are selling high pressure incendiary devices. Get this - a cannister holds some fuel under pressure. When a button is depressed the fuel escapes at high velocity and is simultaneously ignited by the spark from a flint/steel mechanism. We're looking at mass arson on a scale unheard of before!

hahahahahaha brilliant!

 

[Maggot]

Pah, that's nothing.

Just about every town and village in the country has these places that allow strangers, with no checks whichsoever, to dispense highly flammable liquid from a hospipe and then waggle it around if they want and blow the whole place up. With just a small bucket of sand to prevent the ensuing inferno. It's a matter of time before we have Rambo type explosions all over the country.

................Run for the hills...............................

 

[British Red]

To use a US quote

Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - it should stop being a government agency and become a convenience store

 

[Martyn]

Sorry folks, but I'm really pi**ed off! Iv'e just been told by a friend that.. He saw loads of Bear Ghryls Machete's for sale over the counter very cheap, whilst he was on holiday!! Are these retailers stupid?? It's only a matter of time before some idiot gets hold of one! This is exactly what happened to airsoft! Cheap knives/guns on view to the public, will only help a government launch an all out ban on knives being sold, (to ANYONE...).
It's madness!!!!

B&Q have axes on sale openly - madness I say.

Relax dude, dont be a victim of the spin doctors and propaganda.

 

[shaggystu]

if i was working as a press officer for the "ban the knife alliance" (made up name) the OP would've made my day......"look, even the bushcraft community, who are known to be safe and responsible knife users, are opposed to the over counter sale of bladed weapons" i'd even be able to cite references to back up that statement (e.g. this sentiment was origianlly expressed on BCUK, an internationally renowned bushcraft discussion based bulletin board by a long standing and highly regarded member of the forum)

it'd add a lot of weight to my argument for a blanket ban on kinfe sales don't you think?

be carefull

stuart

 

[roger-uk]

OMG, I just came back from my post office where they are selling high pressure incendiary devices. Get this - a cannister holds some fuel under pressure. When a button is depressed the fuel escapes at high velocity and is simultaneously ignited by the spark from a flint/steel mechanism. We're looking at mass arson on a scale unheard of before!

Its worse than that they sell ammunition for some models as well.

 

[santaman2000]

It's worse than you think. Over here a husband was recently bludgeoned to death with a frozen leg of lamb. When questioned the murder said she bought it at the grocery store! I was fine until then. Imagine my anxiety now that I've learned that just anybody can walk in and buy MEAT at will! Without even a background check.


Above joke plagiarized and paraphrased from Steve Martin.and

 

[Martyn]

My PO sells petrol bombs. Well, OK - cans of Zippo lighter fuel, but it's the same thing isn't it?

 

[Retired Member southey]

I got a nasty paper cut in staples the other week! that means that every home, office, shop is full of potential life ending slices of death!

 

[rik_uk3]

Makes me wonder how Aldi sold me that petrol CHAINSAW!!!!!

 

[Martyn]

It's worse than you think. Over here a husband was recently bludgeoned to death with a frozen leg of lamb. When questioned the murder said she bought it at the grocery store! I was fine until then. Imagine my anxiety now that I've learned that just anybody can walk in and buy MEAT at will! Without even a background check.


Above joke plagiarized and paraphrased from Steve Martin.and

I believe in your country, you can actually buy ...a shotgun in wallmart? How does anyone make it out alive?

 

[tobes01]

I think it only appropriate, that as a first and voluntary step to put the safety of the public at the forefront of our interests, we should all start wearing high-visibility vests at all times when out in the woods. This will not only aid identification of bushcrafters, but protect us from each other should unfortunate incidents arise.

I'm pleased to confirm that the market has already arisen to the challenge of this requirement by providing high-visibility camouflage foul-weather clothing: http://www.swedteam.eu/swedteam_hunting_clothes_vest_defender_realtree_ap-hd_hi_viz_1538.html

 

[cowboy]

I reckon what they should do is bring out a fix blade licence and lock knife licence! along the lines of you pay so much each year to allow you to use a fix blade and carry one as long as you have a valid reson to and a safe storage place. Kinda like a shotgun licence! If your ever checked, all you have to do is present your licence card and have a reson for carrying it! Ie, work use! If you dont have a licence, you dont have a knife! simple... And all the money each year goes towards fighting knife and gun crime! obviously 3" and under non locking blades would remain legal..

Good idea???...