As far as I can gather the swords thing is just a proposal by the Labour party. The other things are actually being set in motion before the end of the year.
I think your knife is not classed as a zombie knife….Sorry for being a broken record; I’ll try to remember not to say this again for a while:
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This is the Opinel #8 Outdoor.
It is a folding knife in which the blade can be locked open.
The blade is longer than three inches.
The blade is pierced - by the shackle spanner.
Half the blade is serrated - supposedly to cut cord.
This knife is legally available right across the UK.
It ticks nearly all the boxes to be called a zombie knife, a term not used in the legislation.
I wouldn’t carry it about all the time because that is not what it is designed for.
I don’t anticipate any problems at all from carrying it to anywhere that it will be useful.
Most folk here carry knives appropriate to their use in given contexts. There is nothing to sweat about.
Yes.As far as I can gather the swords thing is just a proposal by the Labour party. The other things are actually being set in motion before the end of the year.
No.So swords are not being banned by the currant government, or the new laws being proposed.
Coming up to an election so the Labour Party is trying to make capital out of the fact that the Tories have not been able to ban zombie knives yet, (basically because it is impossible). You know how idiotic it is, swords are used in civic ceremonies as part of the official regalia, how about banning maces too, you know some MP might pick one up and take a swing at the opposition. Of course various forms of Morris Dancing will also become illegal and those dangerous things will have to be removed from statues as well.As far as I can gather the swords thing is just a proposal by the Labour party. The other things are actually being set in motion before the end of the year.
House of Commons own whack-a- mole.how about banning maces too, you know some MP might pick one up and take a swing at the opposition.
Where did it say swords are being banned?Coming up to an election so the Labour Party is trying to make capital out of the fact that the Tories have not been able to ban zombie knives yet, (basically because it is impossible). You know how idiotic it is, swords are used in civic ceremonies as part of the official regalia, how about banning maces too, you know some MP might pick one up and take a swing at the opposition. Of course various forms of Morris Dancing will also become illegal and those dangerous things will have to be removed from statues as well.
Not being banned yet but there is a proposal from Labour for a total ban on swords.Where did it say swords are being banned?
They are in opposition.Not being banned yet but there is a proposal from Labour for a total ban on swords.
I am being pedantic here but most guns aren't banned. All guns are restricted and licensable with some categories of firearm being more difficult to get authorisation to own than others.All swords? Is that what it says?
Technically a foil is used in the sport of fencing. Most guns are banned but shooting is still allowed so I would think once the furore and hyperbole had died down those using swords for sport, ceremonial and civic duties would carry on as before.
I am being pedantic here but most guns aren't banned. All guns are restricted and licensable with some categories of firearm being more difficult to get authorisation to own than others.
Unless they're single shot for humane dispatch, long barrel or black powder/nitro muzzle loading or into the cylinder. Damn, I miss my firearms!!I thought handguns were totally forbidden to all but police and military (not even exemption for Olympic athletes)?
But stand to be corrected.
GC
Section 7 allows ownership and use of handguns but they need to be of "historical importance", Section 1 allows black powder revolvers or muzzle loading pistols then Section 5 would allow ownership of pretty much anything but is rare to be granted.I thought handguns were totally forbidden to all but police and military (not even exemption for Olympic athletes)?
But stand to be corrected.
GC
And I forgot section 7!!Section 7 allows ownership and use of handguns but they need to be of "historical importance", Section 1 allows black powder revolvers or muzzle loading pistols then Section 5 would allow ownership of pretty much anything but is rare to be granted.
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Edit: Swotty reminded me about humane dispatch on a Section 1
The current descriptions do anything but remove ambiguity, they give the police an excuse to come into your home, stretch a point and call your garden tools illegal and confiscate them because in their opinion they do not have a practical use, it is totally arbitrary.You can buy a lot of things legally, but what you do with them afterwards can make the possession and use of them illegal.
Playing devils advocate :
The proposed legislation wants to make the purchasing and possession of certain bladed knifes and weapons illegal. It then removes all ambiguity when the police stop and search a person, or a property. The police can then confiscate those weapons and remove them from circulation.
As @Broch says nothing fundamentally has changed or is being proposed to change. If you choose to carry a knife in public then you will have to justify the reason for doing so if you are stooped by the police.
In the article above it clearly says “Machetes and zombie-style knives with no practical use”.
So you can own and use a machete on your allotment but it has no practical use in Tesco!