UK consultation on banning large knives and machetes

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This seems to be a slippery slope type legislation. Overzealous implementation will surely follow, where any knife may be considered a “zombie knife” unless its only use is to spread butter.
A Buck 119? Zombie.
A Buck 110? Folding zombie.

Thankfully I live in Sweden where crimes are committed by means of military grade firearms and bombs; there is not too much focus on us peaceful knife collectors 😉

I wish you and the British knife community luck pushing this legislation back.
 
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The UK Government has published its response to the consultation:

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thanks for posting. that was comical. shows to me these govt people seem to miss the obvious all the way through that 27 pages of response. ban features or types of machetes and such and bad folks will just grab what isn't banned. until there is nothing left to grab and they'll move to the next item that can be used and is easily accessible. reminds me of gun control radicals here in the states that have the same mindset. they don't seem to understand how humans think or act at all, in their problem solving theories.........
 
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Reading the words "Zombie-Style" in an official government document just makes me want to vomit.
so mind-numbingly dumb that my eyes roll back into my head.
"big knife look scary!"... ugh, just... ugh.
 
As one might imagine, this proposed ban has caused us much angst. Even having read the OP's helpfully posted Gov responses, I can't be fully satisfied that our products won't be caught by this ridiculous net.

What gives me some hope is that our current blades and those in the works do not feature serrations, spikes or multiple cutting edges. They do however feature multiple lanyard holes around the handle. Will this be classed as "handle holes" or will the old bill deem holes near the handles to be "holes on the blade", of which they allow only one?

This is an issue. Going down this route they feel they need to be specific to save genuine functional tools from being banned, but there is so much grey area its going to get messy.

I can't understand how billhooks and sharp pointed scythes are fully exempt whereas all other traditional large blades may be "weapons". Let's hope they don't realise chisels, screwdrivers, jabsaws and fully stocked kitchen draws exist...
 
Unfortunately the uk government stopped caring about anything but implementing their will a long time ago . One of the reasons I left was lack of personal freedom , when a cctv camera was installed 5 ft from my bedroom window that was the last straw . I feel for those who fight an honest fight and still get shafted .
 
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