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knife laws in Canada?
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http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...nadian-Knife-Laws?highlight=knife+laws+canada
Link to a thread here in BF:thumbup:
Link to a thread here in BF:thumbup:
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As I posted in that link, in Canada, Federal Law supercedes all else, whether Provincial, Municipal or Local. By-Laws that deal with codified Federal Law are legally unenforceable.
Simple rules:
DO NOT carry fully concealed (have a chain, or tip, or lanyard showing) unless you have a permit to do so.
DO NOT threaten anyone or brandish your knife in public.
DO NOT carry an item considered fully illegal under Canadian Law (Switchblades, button automatics, gravity knives, balisongs, push daggers, belt buckle knives)
DO NOT carry knives in legally controlled areas (places of learning, airports, courthouses, jails).
BE COURTEOUS to Police but understand your rights.
There is precisely one limit on length when regarding knives in Canada: Knives carried concealed in other items must be greater than 12"/30cms in length. Dagger combs, dagger pens and the ilk are illegal, dagger or sword canes are perfectly legal.
Owning a butcher knife is not illegal. Walking downtown and and stroking the knife sure would be.
Knives are classified as either tools, or prohibited by design, which would include knives such as butterfly knives/balisongs, switch blades/autos, push/punch daggers, knives with brass knuckles and so on. If a knife is not prohibited by design, then the same rules apply to it as do to hammers, axes, screw drivers and so on. It is perfectly legal to own knives and swords that aren't prohibited by design in Canada so long as your purpose for purchasing and or carrying it is to use it as a tool. Remember, Canadian law does not allow you to carry a knife for the purpose of "self defence". Carrying a knife for the purpose of "self defence" would identify your knife as a weapon, which is not permitted. Some places that you cannot carry a knife on you to are airports, court rooms and some other government buildings, as well as businesses that serve alcohol and such.
Basically, if you have an intention to use it as self defense or a weapon, its no good. I try to stay away from knives that look like weapons in public. (Cold Steel AK-47 with a black blade comes to mind)
You also asked about fixed blades.... For myself personally, I don't have a logical reason to carry one around myself, so I think its a no go for me. I wouldn't feel comfortable having a fixed blade in public, I could see people thinking it as a weapon. Some folders have a utility look to them, so they are easier to pass off as a tool.
If you use it for opening boxes or its needed for your occupation, or anything BUT to do physycal harm to a human being its good to go! If I ever get any questions, I just say I use it for my job, I am an electrician. (Think of a cop walking into a hospital and taking way a doctors scalpel, or a campers hatchet - that just doesn't make sense!) - If you have a logical reason to carry a knife, don't worry.
Knives are classified as either tools, or prohibited by design, which would include knives such as butterfly knives/balisongs, switch blades/autos, push/punch daggers, knives with brass knuckles and so on. If a knife is not prohibited by design, then the same rules apply to it as do to hammers, axes, screw drivers and so on. It is perfectly legal to own knives and swords that aren't prohibited by design in Canada so long as your purpose for purchasing and or carrying it is to use it as a tool. Remember, Canadian law does not allow you to carry a knife for the purpose of "self defence". Carrying a knife for the purpose of "self defence" would identify your knife as a weapon, which is not permitted. Some places that you cannot carry a knife on you to are airports, court rooms and some other government buildings, as well as businesses that serve alcohol and such.
Basically, if you have an intention to use it as self defense or a weapon, its no good. I try to stay away from knives that look like weapons in public. (Cold Steel AK-47 with a black blade comes to mind)
You also asked about fixed blades.... For myself personally, I don't have a logical reason to carry one around myself, so I think its a no go for me. I wouldn't feel comfortable having a fixed blade in public, I could see people thinking it as a weapon. Some folders have a utility look to them, so they are easier to pass off as a tool.
If you use it for opening boxes or its needed for your occupation, or anything BUT to do physycal harm to a human being its good to go! If I ever get any questions, I just say I use it for my job, I am an electrician. (Think of a cop walking into a hospital and taking way a doctors scalpel, or a campers hatchet - that just doesn't make sense!) - If you have a logical reason to carry a knife, don't worry.
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There's nothing illegal about carrying any knife concealed as long as its a tool, not a weapon