Amazon to stop many knife listings

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Below is a list of prohibited knife listings on Amazon. My favorites are cock fighting knives and batman symbols. I blame the UK and articles like this

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...mazoncouk-banned-dangerous-weapons-found-sale


Automatic knives, also known as switchblade knives
Balisong knives, also known as butterfly knives
Concealed swords, including:
Cane-swords
Shobi-zue (a staff, crutch, stick, rod, or pole concealing a knife or blade within it)
Swordsticks
Gravity or gravity-assisted knives
Knives disguised to look like harmless items, such as:
Air gauge knives
Belt buckle knives
Comb knives or hairbrush knives
Lipstick case knives
Writing pen knives
Knuckle knives, including:
Fixed or folding blade knives with split knuckle duster handles
Pilum ballistic knives
Push daggers, including:
Punch daggers
Punch knives
Push dirks
T-handled knives
"Slasher" knives or other devices used in cockfighting
Spring-loaded knives
Stiletto knives
Throwing stars, including:
Batman symbols
Cyclone knives
Kung Fu stars
Metal throwing stars
Ninja stars
Shirken
Throwing cards

Link to amazon prohibited page
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp...guage=en-US&ref=efph_200164950_cont_200164330
 
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And here I was all ready to say something about completely unrelated news of counterfeit knife sales drying up.

Oh well.
 
Amazon has also resumed not shipping many knives to NY state. They had slackened a bit , but now they're doing it again.
It looks like flipper and assisted opening knives won't ship to NY.
 
Well, since I don't buy my knives off of amazon, but rather from a half dozen or so awesome knife shops, I think I'll be okay...
 
Maybe it's just me, but, that list looks like about 95% stuff that was already not allowed for sale on Amazon (or eBay, for that matter). I don't even think I saw anything that said stuff about ceasing knife sales of any variety.

Amazon has always been kinda strict about the kinds of knives it allows on the site. I was able to purchase a handful of automatics that were vaguely named and described to avoid detection on the system, though, so it is an imperfect system that allows sellers to craft listings in a manner that allows them to be sold regardless.

I'm always surprised at the kind of lawless wasteland that the internet is, and I do appreciate that about it, but it really is just a matter of time before regional age verification becomes the norm for sale of age-and-location restricted items. Laws have lagged behind technology for a while now, and I think legislators are going to start establishing barriers that take a little bit of the glitter and wonder out of it.

I would expect an unpleasantly broad-spectrum reactionary measure at some point for the sake of covering their butts, followed by carefully-crafted verification systems to avoid liability. Such is typically the way of things.
 
From what I have seen on that list, it is just about all fantasy/mall ninja/tacticool type stuff, aside from gravity, bali, or autos...

Most of that would not effect my daily carry of a knife.

Oh no! I won't be able to carry my Comb Knife and Kung Fu Star edc load out! What will I do now?!?
:rolleyes:
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Amazon is a company, and their wish to sell what they want is their right. They don't have to supply everything that you want... You can't go to a liquor store and buy a 6' sub for a party... Why not?
That's Right, it isn't what they choose to sell.

People aren't up in arms about things like this because it isn't viewed as impinging upon "freedom". Buying a knife from amazon isn't "freedom", it is consumerism. If you want to buy the knife, you still can (just not from Amazon ;) ). That is freedom.

You are only losing access to a few stores. Many businesses are going out in this climate, this is essentially the same thing. Amazons "knife store" is not carrying certain types of knives, but still carrying others...
 
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