mailing a knife to Canada

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I have an M1 bayonet for sale and was asked to send it to Canada is this legal. I live in upstate NY
 
Don't know about bayonets but I've shipped a few folders to our friends up north. I just tighten the pivots so customs can't open them. Expect delivery to take double or triple the time.
 
I sent one to a guy up there not long ago...on custom form I put camping equipment. He got it no problem and didn't take any longer really. Costs an extra few bucks, not more than $10 and it was a fixed blade.


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I order all kinds of knives from the USA with no
issues at all, I do always ask to tighten the pivot and call it a camping tool on the customs forms but it's totally legal...just don't try to send a rifle scope for some reason someone figured a scope was a deadly weapon and well laws are laws but yea you should have no probs with a knife. Just no butterfly knives, autos, or push daggers as far as I'm aware.
 
a M1 bayonet is 10'' long not in the same class as a folder an some jerk could call it a rifle part
 
No problems with a bayonet or fixed blade like that.

Optics from the US to Canada are more of an export issue than an import one.
 
A bayonet would probably fall into the category of "weapon" not "tool" because it is DESIGNED to be used to put holes in people. Can it be used for other cutting tasks. Yes. But it was NOT designed to be a tool, per se, but to be a weapon.

If, as Cteve relates, a rifle scope has been deemed to be a "weapon" simply because it can be added to a rifle, then a bayonet would be doubly suspect as it is designed to be attached to a rifle AND be used as a weapon in and by itself. I suppose that a rifle scope COULD be used to cause bodily injury or even death in an individual, though. :D

I don't know how they got to Canada, but I have purchased several bayonets from Canadians, and they (the bayonets not the Canadians:D) all got to me safely.
 
Never heard of bayonets being illegal, in fact I know people who own them, and my parents have one that was sent as a freebee from a surplus warehouse with an order of farm tools, of all things. Carry is not the same as ownership, and the only restriction I know of on fixed blades is those with attached knuckledusters, so trench spikes might be harder to deal with (but might be okay if the receiver is a collector... that would be an RCMP question)
 
zzyzzogeton said:
A bayonet would probably fall into the category of "weapon" not "tool" because it is DESIGNED to be used to put holes in people. Can it be used for other cutting tasks. Yes. But it was NOT designed to be a tool, per se, but to be a weapon.

If, as Cteve relates, a rifle scope has been deemed to be a "weapon" simply because it can be added to a rifle, then a bayonet would be doubly suspect as it is designed to be attached to a rifle AND be used as a weapon in and by itself. I suppose that a rifle scope COULD be used to cause bodily injury or even death in an individual, though. :D

I don't know how they got to Canada, but I have purchased several bayonets from Canadians, and they (the bayonets not the Canadians:D) all got to me safely.
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Bayonets are perfectly legal in Canada
 
I don't doubt that they are legal. Assisted opening folders are legal in Canada but they get confiscated all the time at the border as being "illegal".

We've had several threads with folks lamenting having to fight the Border Customs (aka BC) people (or what ever the currently PC term is for the Canadian authorities that decide what can be let over the border or not) to get their knives released, or at least returned to the seller/shipper so they could get their money back. The question is whether or not the BC folks would allow it to continue on its journey passed the border to the purchaser in the event they opened the package.

I was commenting on Cteve's statement that if a rifle scope can confiscated due to "being a weapon", then a bayonet would be more likely to be so designated and confiscated by said BC folks.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
I was commenting on Cteve's statement that if a rifle scope can confiscated due to "being a weapon", then a bayonet would be more likely to be so designated and confiscated by said BC folks.
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Strangely it is not.
It is a fixed blade and looks like a fixed blade, so they do not get confused.

The assisted opener thing has been deemed fine to confiscate by the Border folks tribunal (stil legal in Canda, but they get to make stupid rules at the border...).

There has been nothing like that with fixed blades.
The thing with assisted openers was a case of "But it LOOKS like a switchblade!"
Bayonets look like fixed blades, and don't look at all like the ones that are deemed prohibited (knuckle knives and push daggers). ;)
 
I stand (well, sit:D) corrected then. I just figured that if the BCs got all wonky about assisted opening folders being a weapon, then a weapon (which a bayonet is) would be considered a weapon as well. To paraphrase an old radio show, "Who knows what passes for thoughts in the dimwitted brains of Customs folks."
 
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