Petition seeks to have serial numbers on all knives sold

Tantalus

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Have to say, I have no problem with serial numbers on knives. Nor really with providing my ID when I buy one.

On the other hand it is difficult to see what it might achieve other than creating more bureaucracy.

Criminals have a bad habit of not obeying the law and will disregard it all anyway.
 
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Poacherman

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Sep 25, 2023
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Have to say, I have no problem with serial numbers on knives. Nor really with providing my ID when I buy one.

On the other hand it is difficult to see what it might achieve other than creating more bureaucracy.

Criminals have a bad habit of not obeying the law and will disregard it all anyway.
Exactly
 

Paul_B

Bushcrafter through and through
Jul 14, 2008
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Same kinds of issues with driving licences and registration plates in that if there's no money for adequate enforcement more people will end up breaking the law. I mean how many drivers honestly obey the law? Actually know the law in all its details? Laws are only good if enforced or widely supported by most of the population.
 

slowworm

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May 8, 2008
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Have to say, I have no problem with serial numbers on knives. Nor really with providing my ID when I buy one.

It depends on where it leads to. Could you alter the serial number and if not what happens if you want to alter a knife - send it away to a registered knife dealer?

I would have though serial numbers would lead to licenses and 'well meaning people' would want them to be like firearms licenses so good reason needed for a knife. Perhaps then you should only use certain knives on suitable land and if you don't use your knives often enough they are taken away from you. Logs would need to be kept of when knives are used and for what reason.

Might sound OTT but that's the reality of firearms these days. At least knife serial numbers sounds daft at the moment...
 

Chris

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Sep 20, 2022
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Problem is that you can make a knife accidentally by just dropping a chunk of flint. The idea of regulating ‘anything that is sharp’ is just completely impossible and nonsensical to anyone with more than 1 brain cell who thinks about it for more than 6 seconds.

…so I assume it’ll be in parliament by the end of the week…
 

gg012

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Sep 23, 2022
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Yeahbut just think of the kittens we might save?

Do they have serial numbers for each knife model, each manufacturer or do we have to have longer blades so we can fit all the numbers for all the knives sold in the UK?
Can't make the blades too long or they would turn into super scary swords and be even more dangerous

Sent from underground
 

Ystranc

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May 24, 2019
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I searched Change.org for this particular petition but couldn’t find it, I could only get to it through the link. Registering knives would be only one of many stupid woke ideas on there that are completely impractical. Most of it is just venting frustration at some kind of perceived injustice or someone trying to manage the grief of a genuine loss. I can’t imagine losing someone to knife crime but knee jerk reactions that criminalise everyone who has a sharp or pointed object can’t solve anything.
Unfortunately some people appear to be signing the petition to give themselves the ability to publicly disagree and say it won’t work…how stupid are they? Don’t they know how petitions work?
 
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