damned UK knife laws

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edged932

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UK knife legislation states that it is illegal to carry a knife in a public place unless it is a sub 3 inch blade and non locking! this is frustrating as it does not stop criminals carrying a knife it only stops honest citizens carrying a knife for everyday use:mad:. although i still find that my non-locking swiss army knife is fine for everyday use i would like to carry something larger and more solid such as a spyderco or a buck bantam. there are even stories of people getting arrested for possessing a penknife. :eek: i wish they could change it to something along the lines of being able to carry a folding knife with a blade length less than 4 inches. is that reasonable what do you people think? :thumbup: or :thumbdn:
 
Police are people and in my experience they treat you the way you treat them. If you're a calm and reasonable individual with no criminal record, I highly doubt police would give you a hard time just because your knife locks. Police deal with the scum of the earth on a daily basis, if you're just a regular joe I bet the worst that happens is they let you of with a warning or at the very worst confiscate your blade. Anyway, that's just my idea.
 
I do feel sorry for our guys across the pond. Bunch of great people, but the laws are intolerable.
 
I think you should move out of the damned UK and become an American. There's no chance of common sense ever coming to the UK. I can't find the link right now, but I remember reading a case about a man not only being arrested, but also prosecuted, for having a butter knife in his car.
 
Well, we also have school children being arrested/suspended for having butter knives in school in various states. :mad:
 
Jack34 said:
I think I would move. Seriously.
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pretty much a nonsensical post here. Suggesting the OP actually move to another country so he can carry a larger pocket knife? Give up his roots, leave his family, job, citizenship over a knife?
 
G-Winstead said:
pretty much a nonsensical post here. Suggesting the OP actually move to another country so he can carry a larger pocket knife? Give up his roots, leave his family, job, citizenship over a knife?
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Not over a knife. Over as many knives as he could ever wish to carry, in any and all configurations.

But seriously it's not the knife we're suggesting he move over. It's the absurd politics of a country that simply doesn't trust its own people to carry everyday utilitarian tools. It's learned and forced helplessness that we're suggesting he get away from.
 
Hand guns and automatic weapons have been banned in the UK since 1996 after the Dunblane School massacre in Scotland.

As far as knives are concerned you can buy pretty much anything except balisongs and automatics. In public you are only allowed to carry a non locking blade under 3 inches. To be honest there are a lot of good options available for example the Spyderco UK penknives.

The UK Police will never give you the benefit of the doubt. They are institutionally racist and corrupt but we the public are guilty criminals/potential murderers for carrying a knife and so we must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law!!

By the way, I believe most knife crime in the UK is commited by people using cheap kitchen knives which are readily available from local discount stores for $15.
 
We have a tremendous variety of knife laws in the US, even within overlapping jurisdictions, like city and state. Thanks in large part to KnifeRights.org, we are getting more states pre-empting local laws and even abolishing knife laws altogether. This parallels a wide-spread move towards shall-issue laws for concealed carry of firearms.

Freedom isn't free. You have to follow the law, but sometimes you can change the laws you don't want. It takes money and political involvement, the same tools the hoplophobes use to disarm us.
 
Charlie_K said:
Not over a knife. Over as many knives as he could ever wish to carry, in any and all configurations.

But seriously it's not the knife we're suggesting he move over. It's the absurd politics of a country that simply doesn't trust its own people to carry everyday utilitarian tools. It's learned and forced helplessness that we're suggesting he get away from.
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'Learned and forced helplessness' is hardly terms I'd use when describing the British.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
We have a tremendous variety of knife laws in the US, even within overlapping jurisdictions, like city and state. Thanks in large part to KnifeRights.org, we are getting more states pre-empting local laws and even abolishing knife laws altogether. This parallels a wide-spread move towards shall-issue laws for concealed carry of firearms.

Freedom isn't free. You have to follow the law, but sometimes you can change the laws you don't want. It takes money and political involvement, the same tools the hoplophobes use to disarm us.
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On the kniferights.org website, I see that wayne lapierre, smelling the odor of fresh, new worker bees to join the NRA, is sucking up to knife people.
 
I believe Doug Ritter reached out to the NRA first, as an experienced rights organization who might teach and support his efforts.

I would not be surprised to find many new kniferights people were already NRA members.
 
yes but you have to have a justified reason to own a firearm and have to prove you can store it safely (which means an expensive gun safe) and as far as shotguns go you have to store it securely and capacity of the shotgun is limited to 2+1 rounds and i think you need a reason to own it E.G. pest control, clay shooting etc. handguns are absolutely out of the question. so yeah, it kind of sucks over here as far as the law goes, you american people are lucky to have the second amendment protect, it don't let obama take away your rights to protect yourself from people who would do you wrong and the government learn from our mistakes.
 
Charlie_K said:
Not over a knife. Over as many knives as he could ever wish to carry, in any and all configurations.

But seriously it's not the knife we're suggesting he move over. It's the absurd politics of a country that simply doesn't trust its own people to carry everyday utilitarian tools. It's learned and forced helplessness that we're suggesting he get away from.
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indeed everyday they take away a little bit more of your freedom in a system designed to make you accept someone else's authority over you by putting such propaganda in school textbooks and on television they try make you a slave to the system by getting you into debt. unfortunately a lot of people are stupid enough to take the crap the government puts out there as gospel believing that the laws are there to protect you when in fact it is to keep the sheep more docile and easier to control. i wish it was like the days of the magna carta was written when the law was "you shall not cause; loss, harm or a breach of the peace" in my opinion that is much better than infinite laws and legislations written in ways that are difficult to understand and then used against you. but gone are the days of true freedom i suppose...
 
Charlie_K said:
Not over a knife. Over as many knives as he could ever wish to carry, in any and all configurations.

But seriously it's not the knife we're suggesting he move over. It's the absurd politics of a country that simply doesn't trust its own people to carry everyday utilitarian tools. It's learned and forced helplessness that we're suggesting he get away from.
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indeed everyday they take away a little bit more of your freedom in a system designed to make you accept someone else's authority over you by putting such propaganda in school textbooks and on television they try make you a slave to the system by getting you into debt. unfortunately a lot of people are stupid enough to take the crap the government puts out there as gospel believing that the laws are there to protect you when in fact it is to keep the sheep more docile and easier to control. i wish it was like the days of the magna carta was written when the law was "you shall not cause; loss, harm or a breach of the peace" in my opinion that is much better than infinite laws and legislations written in ways that are difficult to understand and then used against you. but gone are the days of true freedom i suppose...
 
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