So im new to this forum and knives in general and was just wondering if my new knife 'S&W Border Guard 5' will be ok to have as an EDC? It has a 4.5 inch blade and people say under 5 inches is fine but I just want to be sure it wont get taken away or get me in trouble.
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Knife laws B.C. Canada?
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While I'm not Canadian myself, but having been on this forum for a quite while, I have observed and researched that there is no specific length limit placed on knives in the law itself. Indeed most beliefs that there is a length limit, even with US state laws, are myths, since only a few states have them.
However, Canadian law permits a police officer examining your knife to use discretion. The legality is based on the intended purpose of the knife, and that intended purpose is assessed based on the circumstances you are encountering the police, your stated purpose for carrying it, the size of the knife, and the design of the knife. It is prohibited to ever carry a knife with intent to use it as a weapon, even if that intent is only for self-defense. While using a knife in self-defense can be legal (if it was justifiable), actually carrying one as a precaution is not.
The Border Guard 5 would be considered a LARGE folding knife, considering the statistical average size of a folder is about 3-4 inches, but it's not huge. I'm not sure how Canadian cops are about color, but the fact that it's all black and has a false edge on top might give the impression it was meant as a weapon. However, the strap-cutter part at the back and the glass-breaker pommel might be persuasive that it's used as a rescue device. It's probably going to come down to why you have cops search you in the first place, which 99% is because you did something else to piss them off.
However, Canadian law permits a police officer examining your knife to use discretion. The legality is based on the intended purpose of the knife, and that intended purpose is assessed based on the circumstances you are encountering the police, your stated purpose for carrying it, the size of the knife, and the design of the knife. It is prohibited to ever carry a knife with intent to use it as a weapon, even if that intent is only for self-defense. While using a knife in self-defense can be legal (if it was justifiable), actually carrying one as a precaution is not.
The Border Guard 5 would be considered a LARGE folding knife, considering the statistical average size of a folder is about 3-4 inches, but it's not huge. I'm not sure how Canadian cops are about color, but the fact that it's all black and has a false edge on top might give the impression it was meant as a weapon. However, the strap-cutter part at the back and the glass-breaker pommel might be persuasive that it's used as a rescue device. It's probably going to come down to why you have cops search you in the first place, which 99% is because you did something else to piss them off.
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A "false edge", also called a "swedge" by some folks, is the top of the clip on a clip point blade. Many "classic" clip point bladed Bowie knives either come with or later have the swedge portion sharpened, making it a double edged knife, illegal in many localities.
Here's a pic of such a "classic" clip point Bowie (I refer to them as quoted classic because this is the type most people associate with the term Bowie knife, although a wide variety of knives either claim or are assigned the name but don't have this style blade). The arrow points at the swedge.
Here's a pic of such a "classic" clip point Bowie (I refer to them as quoted classic because this is the type most people associate with the term Bowie knife, although a wide variety of knives either claim or are assigned the name but don't have this style blade). The arrow points at the swedge.
"False edge" can also refer more broadly to an any knife that has a superficial appearance of being doubled-edged, in that all or part of the blade is "wedged" on both sides, but one edge is not actually sharp. It need not be a symmetrical, dagger-like blade either. It can be a clip-point like the bowie above, or a "drop point" like the Border Guard 5. The purpose of a false edge is largely the same as a double-edge: to increase penetrative ability. Depending on how paranoid the cop is, this could be interpreted as better "people-stabbing ability." But of course there are plenty of utilitarian tasks that also require piercing something with a knife.