More variety's of Knives fall into legal trouble in Britain

[Anaxes]

Link to the original incident:

This is very important to anyone importing into the U.K. Be mindful that it's merely Customs inventing new prohibitions, not actual fresh bans.
It's also worth noting that Custom's is generally considered a step up from the Police in terms of power over here.

They'll get their new definition written if they feel like it, but why bother if it's open for re-interpretation on the spot?.
Perhaps someone will shock us all by actually challenging the decisions, er, no...

If you were to get enough of these confiscated it would possibly result in legal action, and quite possibly a property search on the pretence you're trading in them.
This is not merely a matter of loosing money, they are being classed as switchblades, which are a criminal offence to import and generally considered serious.

Stay safe, and go easy on thinning the collection.

 

[Gunfucius]

Probably just a problem with an individual customs agent. From the responses on BB's, it doesn't seem to happen that often.

 

[Anaxes]

From the responses on BB's, it doesn't seem to happen that often.

To be perfectly honest, Custom's don't even catch a huge majority of the blatantly illegal objects coming in.
They are famous for not being particularly efficient as it happens, although it's changed considerably since 9/11.

If a large number of these variety's of knives were being stopped and taxed, then allowed through that would indicate it was isolated, but that isn't happening as far as I know.

Time will tell.