Balisongs / "Ninja Stars" / Nunchucks - Why Are They Banned? 

Gravity knives are illegal? Wouldn't non gravity knives just float away?

Everyone knows that you can't mug, assault, or murder someone unless you use a sufficiently cool-looking weapon, and criminals wouldn't dare breaking the law in the process of mugging, assaulting, or murdering someone.

"Oh no, gravity knives and switchblades open too fast!" Fixed blade knives: "Allow us to introduce ourselves..."

I still remember the day I was talked to by a police officer because I was carrying a wooden sword to a fun little "duel" my friends were going to have. Yes, I got my ass kicked. Now you know. Three days later, I was WALKING THROUGH STORES and through a SCHOOL YARD carrying a big-ass woodcutting axe, and nobody batted an eye. And before anyone asks, I wasn't going to school at that time. I was carrying it because someone at the school had requested someone bring an axe TO THE SCHOOL to chop down a tree on Facebook, and my mother asked me to do so. No cops, no nothing. I could've taken at least two kids per swing with that thing, but because its a "woodcutting axe", they somehow conveniently think it won't be used to kill. And also keep in mind, most of the School wasn't aware I was coming. I walked through the front doors, past the principal's office, across the school yard mid-recess, and started hacking at a tree whist being crowded by 10 year olds and younger.

I'm actually surprised you didn't bring up the lethality of lawn darts before they were banned as a toy

In the US, there’s an organization called “Knife rights”, which aims to standardize knife laws across states and repeal laws which restrict the sane and reasonable use of tools.

40 years ago my dad was walking to his truck and a guy tried to rob him. My dad broke his nose with a hard salami. He got arrested for it as well but the case was dismissed. Judge couldn't stop laughing and the guy had a pretty long rap sheet😄

Ireland has a similar law called the "Offensive weapons act 1990" which bans the most specific "Ninja weapons" you can imagine, weapons so impractical they've never actually been used except in movies. And especially in Ireland. Coincidentally movies came out around the same time featuring those weapons :) So Ireland has a law that is entirely based on politicians being scared of fictional weapons in movies.

I think these kind of laws only exist so politicians can make themselves look good. They're also good for scaring people--if you can make people think they're in danger and _you_ can protect them, a lot of them will let you get away with anything.

When I was a kid, I, of course, made some nunchucks to play with my friends. They, obviously, made their own. And we managed to hit one another or ourselves, by accident. We all survived. We also used sticks as swords, and hit each other with those on purpose. We still survived.

Legality varies between countries, but gardening tools are mostly legal worldwide and they're effective enough for what you need. Trust me. I've cut tree branches with a machete. If I ever need a short ranged self defense tool, the machete is my choice. Kitchenware works too.

The other thing to consider is that by making it illegal you are actually making them more attractive for younger people. I for one had all of these items as a teenager, specifically because they were considered dangerous. I of course didn't admit it at the time, I just thought they were cool, but the cool factor came from the fact that they were considered so dangerous as to be banned.

When I was a kid in West Germany in the early 90s, balisong/butterfly knifes were all the rage for boys in 7th grade. All the girls were playing around with snap-bracelets and the boys were twirling around balisong knifes. They were like Yo-Yos to us. The teachers would sometimes confiscate them when we got too annoying during a lesson, but then give them back to us afterwards. It is crazy to me that they are forbidden now, even for adults.

“We have to be seen to be DOING SOMETHING!!!1!” - legislators everywhere. 🙄

I remember the guys at my school all getting butterfly knives just *because* they were illegal. So the law is probably doing the exact thing it's trying to prevent

To add on to the getting hurt part: getting hurt is part of life, it makes you tougher and oftentimes the actions leading up to it are fun and build great memories. If we avoided doing things out of fear getting hurt we would never accomplish anything. To a greater extent this applies to suffering as well.

My favorite one of the dumb laws in my area is a ban on a tool that adds weight to the end of a rope to allow for better throwing (mainly to toss lines to other boats). Slings are still legal and far more practical a weapon compared to "a roughly foot-long rope loop with a weight"

Statiscally the most used murder weapon is a "steak knife" (stat from a chief of police during an investigation class at junior college) so crimes dont really use those forbidden weapons much.

Ahh yes, the old "give up real freedom for imaginary safety" shuffle!

The rumour about nunchucks prohibition in Poland dates to PRL (aka the times when Communism and Russia were "overseeing" Poland) era coupled with Bruce Lee mania. When some guy using a nunchaku beat up a group of militiamen so they added them to the list of weapons (alongside guns).

These weapons are specifically banned when they become popular or are perceived to be popular with street gangs. It lets the police confiscate them when they do a random search (regardless of how legal or justified that search was) without having to go through the expense of having to take them to court. So the bans don't have to make sense because it's not about them being more dangerous so long as the mall ninjas think they're cool.

The really funny thing is that in Canada spring loaded knives are totally illegal, but spring assisted knives are perfectly fine, that means the only difference is whether the activation mechanism is directly connected to the blade or not.

You have a point about things that are easy to make. Even I made a pair of homemade nunchucks as a kid out of parts from a thrown-away tent (the rods being sections of its support poles) that I still own and still hurts like heck.

My Friend from Denmark (ex-cop) pointed interesting law - You can only carry knife that can`t be single-handed opened , and only if You got reason to carry it. Ie : You go for longer walk and carry 2 apples that you want to peel before eating. But then... You land far from home, with knife... and no reason to carry it - as You eaten apples !

Wtf. I’ve been looking at balisong videos today and Skallagrim makes one? Things work in weird ways haha

My balisong is the best EDC knife I've ever had, even outside of the cool tricks, it's the quickest and safest knife I own. Thanks for making this vid!

Oh my, has it been 10 years since I started watching ur vids? First video I saw from skall was the video where he was talking about balisong bans, and since then ive been as subscriber and watching daily videos from skall

A lot of these laws, at least in the US, were made to help in facilitating "routine stops" while profiling "suspicious types". Even if it's just a misdemeanor, the cop can say "Is that a balisong? Now, lookie here..."

I agree with everything in this video... and also, I am having a massive heart attack moment seeing my videos here. Huge fan, so I'm just kind of wowed.

Who, as a kid in the 80s, who loved karate/ninja movies did not hit themselves in the head with a set of homemade nunchakus?

"No practical use, other than causing harm." That's a pretty good description of politicians. I don't see them banning themselves, though.

I really hope this video stays up. We need more people to speak sense like this.

As I am from and live in Indiana, in the early 80s we could buy throwing stars at the county fair at any vendor selling knives and nunchucks and throwing stars as I often did. There was no law on age at the fair back then. I had seen later on that it was illegal to own after 1985 and no one would send them to you through the mail but in Ohio there are martial arts stores that sell them and I am not far from the Ohio border being in south east Indiana. I am going to research this further so I can see what has changed on that restrictive law. Thanks for the video....

I'm always happy to see you still own the foldable big "pocket" knife.

So actually, a REAL reason these laws are in place (at least the one I'm most distinctly aware of) is that if a cop is trying to come up with a reason to search you, and they don't have shit, but they still REALLY wanna search you, they can ask, "Do you have any illegal weapons on you?" and irrespective of how you respond, they can write in their report, "suspect was uncooperative, I proceeded to perform a search" as they rifle through your pockets, checking for anything good to arrest you for. I'm an American, I don't know if this sort of thing is common in Canada, but this is definitely the kind of thing that they use down here, because they have quotas for how many people they need to issue citations to and arrest in a given month. I see no other practical reason for these silly ass laws.

14:40 "Nightmarish, dystopian, nanny-state" is one of your best lines ever!

My brother was into Tae Kwon Do back in the 80s and had ninja stars, nunchucks, and a couple butterfly knifes. They're safely stored in my attic and I keep one of those old knives nearby for opening mail and boxes, it's about as dull as a letter opener at this point. Also... your "gang" pic on the right at 4:04 is from the dance movie Breakin', one of the least violent movies ever made. 😅

Crowbars. The Anime "The Eminence in Shadow," has a main character that sees Crowbars as a weapon of great potential. Can you go over types of crowbars and what crowbars would be the best for self defense?

The reason for laws on silly weapons is so they can make laws against other weapons later by setting precedent with the silly weapon laws. And yes, eventually banning all dietary things that The Betters do not wish you to have.

When I was riding my bike, a big thing with bikers was a sheath that held a Buck knife (or similar). You put the knife with the blade partially open in the scabbard. If you pulled it straight out. The blade opened and it was ready to use. If the cops hassled you. Push the knives forward and the blade snapped shut and no problem.

Knife laws are very stupid.

I'd argue the most dangerous items we have in our homes are probably the perfectly legal cutlery when used improperly and the negligent cleaning in which one combines certain cleaning supplies into a lethal gas.

RUNKLE!! He's a great guy and seems to be a very knowledgeable lawyer. GREAT channel

Growing up in 80's Britain, we never had The "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" they where rebounded as the "Teenage Mutant Hero Turles" and they never said what weapon Michelangelo used to use

I personally used the spring knife for mushroom picking, it feels nice to have small knife that you can operate using 1 hand while picking mushroom with the other hand. usually the spring knives aren't that sharp or the blades are short for them to be dangerous. ( In my country there are no limits in owning a knife , just don't carry it openly)

Thank you for an up-to-date summary of Canadians knife carrying laws!! From someone who carries one, this needs to be common knowledge!

"Generally, throwing stars may be dangerous" I can carry around a brick. Statistically speaking, a brick is going to hurt more if thrown at another person.

The banning of nunchaku is particularly ironic. Nunchaku were originally developed from threshing flails, and those who learned to use them as weapons did so because they were in a region whose ruling class forbade the common folk from carrying "weapons" (i.e. swords and such). So the entire point of nunchaku is that they were originally considered "not a weapon" by the law of the time.

It took like 8 yers or something to get another episode of this. I found this channel years ago! On the topic of why is ... or ... banned.

A blunted edge rondel dagger is more deserving of the perception of a pure weapon than a butterfly knife. I've had lots of friends whip their butterflies out and cut cordage, tree limbs, or meat on camp-outs. While I'm still selecting the particular blade I want from my Gerber multi-tool, they're already cutting. The American Article the Second of Amendment (A2A) says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The government is not allowed to break the range of arms or weapons up into different pieces or segments or fragments of legal and illegal, allowed and banned, good and bad, etc. Having and carrying wacky weapons hurts absolutely no one. It is the misuse of such weapons to hurt someone without just cause that should be criminalized and punished. And that is covered in another amendment of our Constitution (A5A).

Skall: says swords are invented for killing Canada next week: baning swords

It's a good thing society is protected from nunchucks. My pitbull was decapitated by a drunk driver who was taking prescription opiates whilst shopping for chainsaws and I just hesitate to imagine what damage he could've done had he possessed some stringy sticks

WHEN you pulled out the giant hammer I almost lost it lol

Something to consider for a future video would be Worf's new weapon in Picard season 3, the Kur'leth. It more or less looks like the Mek'leth but with a much longer blade.

youre 100% on point bro. i worked for a jail and a fellow employee left a box cutter in plain view in his car and got suspended (it was later dropped because we all protested). i carried a 4 ft crowbar (claw ended) in my car as well as a pair of 18 in seamstress shears! they couldnt do a damn thing...some tailoring shears are 2 ft long! i cant post a pic, but they are lethal! and totally legal to have. meanwhile...here in california they are busy outlawing (non lethal) cs pellet guns for self defence now...loved your video..subscribed! BTW: as a former nunchaku owner...i hit myself more than anything else with those darn things! lol

I can see Balisong and gravity knives (and probably nunchuk and ninja stars too to a lesser extent )were banned after 1 or 2 incidents with idiots trying to perform tricks with them but it ended up hurting them or other bystanders that are relative to people in the government. They probably would ban Zippo-style lighter too if they could but that's a huge company and it's much harder to ban a lighter.

The other thing to consider is that motorized tools are associated with more injuries and accidents and inefficiency than their counterparts that require muscle power, but they are usually legal whereas real and useful tools effectively are not. I have a ryoba nokogiri saw that the police were going to confiscate until they realized I was literally using it to cut 2x4's for a workbench. Literally.

It's worth pointing out the initial motives behind banning most of these weapons. Switchblades in particular picked up a pop-culture association with juvenile delinquents and gang members in the 50s or so. You can probably guess where that led. Balisongs, far as I can tell, mostly just got caught in the crossfire due to also having an abnormal method of opening that some old fart with zero mechanical knowledge would likely interpret as switchblade-esque, but it being a traditional filipino weapon and not seeing widespread use among regular Americans (and Canadians, in your example up there) during this time period would make banning them an easier sell. Likewise, stereotypical ninja weapons have the combination of not seeing widespread use as tools in the countries that pushed for banning them (AKA seen as foreign), plus gaining a pop-culture association with gangs, ninjas, and presumably the occasional gang of ninjas. In other words, it's our good old friend "old people getting pissy about something they saw in a movie and getting away with banning it because only minorities would really be affected by it" :V

Nunchux are illegal in Arizona are illegal because they're dangerous. But you can carry balisongs and switchblades. In New Mexico, you can carry nunchucks, but you can't carry switchblades or balisongs because they're dangerous.

Assisted opening knives are legal in Canada, just not a weridly specific type of spring powered knives. Also illegal flails and punch daggers (except Ulu) and metal knuckledusters, but not non-metal knuckledusters.

In MN there is a 50/50 chance a man you walk by will have a knife on them. It's super common. Usually in the form of a multi-tool or folding knife sometimes a Swiss army knife. It's just super handy.

Its less about the object and more about the "control"... and setting precedence for banning additional objects based on the same reasoning.

In Poland all of them are legal to carry for no reason and we are one of the safest countries in the world. Literally, if a policeman stops you and finds you have a spring or buttefly knife, taser, axe, nunchuk or sword, and asks why, you can say 'because it's cool' and he has to let you go because you have the right to carry them. The worst thing that can happen is that he will ask for your ID and make a note in case somebody later that day was attacked with a tool you're carrying, but there's almost no attacks as such, so you can carry pretty much anything, walk past police patrol and they will not be interested.

In Indiana, they banned “Chinese throwing stars” shortly after the first episode of “Kung Fu” aired starring David Carridine, a kill is made with one at an extended distance in the opening minutes of the show. This of course frightened legislators 😂

I've known people who had their knives taken away just due to their skill in opening them quickly with the cops insisting the knife violated the switch blade ordinance. The original design of shuriken was as a tool. Another big thing that was originally designed as a weapon, and has no other use, is guns. But nope can't touch those, especially in the USA.

I look at it like this, these things should be made no longer illegal, but make a list of weapons that if they're used in harming someone, the sentence is worse

"Throwing stars are banned in Indiana" By the way, Indiana's laws on firearms are rather permissive. You can concealed carry without any kind of licensing, there are no magazine capacity restrictions, there is no registration required, there is no ownership permit required, the state does not allow cities to make their own restrictions, and there are stand your ground laws. So the fact that throwing stars are illegal in a state with, aside from red flag laws, nearly no regulation of guns, is rather notable.

This is one of the things I appreciate about the law in my country, here all of those are legal to own but not to carry, even if then all becomes kinda strange when you can't carry any knife or bladed implement in an urban place if not with a reason...like work or other...but in the wild I can go around with an axe no problem. It still makes more sense but it clearly supposes that you don't need to cut anything while you're in an urban area and that's kinda silly tbh

The funny thing is even though spring assisted knives etc. are illigal in Canada, especially in Toronto, you can find one in at least 1/ 10 convenience stores,

Look at this legal thing , it’s way more lethal than that illegal thing ! Politicians : Oh yeah ? You ain’t saying .Hold our beers !…

I own standard folding knives, spring assisted opening knives, and an OTF switch blade. Of these three, the OTF is the slowest to open - partly because it is a cheap one from Wish I got just to see if they were worth the hype.

Finally! I was waiting for This my Young apprentice! Oh wait wrong franchise… No seriously i rlly missed those videos. I remember the First ones of those you Made in a knife store if i remember correctly.

Great video. Do you do in person classes?

When Balisongs were popular, dudes were cutting themselves because they were playing w/ it. and it was so bad emergency rooms were busy because of it at one point.

What is the sword at the end? /who makes it? :S

In the US, at least, the idea that an object can "cause harm" is actually considered justification for not allowing it to be banned, thanks to the Second Amendment. American citizens are supposed to be armed, in order to ensure that they are never able to have their natural liberty taken away from them. There's been recent developments with federal court precedents, over the last couple decades, but especially in 2008, 2016, and 2022, that are now bringing the state of the law back to what it was before the modern era when a bunch of utopian authoritarian types started pushing for more government intrusion in people's lives for their "safety". This idea about controlling the ownership of weapons, outside of overtly racist laws targeting specific undesirables, basically was invented in 1968, and that 40-50 year era of ignoring the US Constitution is finally ending. Bans on weapons of any kind are essentially not permitted in the US, but due to the way our legal system works, they first have to be challenged in court, on a law-by-law basis, go through a usually multi-year very expensive appeals process, and then set a precedent which will be thereafter applied (hopefully) by inferior court judges. Essentially any man-portable weapon should be legal to own provided it would be suitable for some lawful purpose including self-defense by individuals, or self-organized military use by individual members of a community (a militia). There's only manner of use restrictions, generally coming from English common law, where antisocial behaviors that would cause terror among the people can be criminalized. One might restrict things such as waving a sword around on a crowded sidewalk, but not the peaceable carrying of the same sword in a scabbard, or the mere ownership of the sword at the individual's home. And one could replace the word "sword" in the prior sentence with any sort of firearm, nunchucks, or what have you, and it would remain true. It's worth noting here that even lethal grenades were in common use when the Second Amendment was ratified, and similar modern destructive devices should be legal for Americans to possess and perhaps even carry, provided they do so in a peaceable manner. Courts are still litigating exactly what sort of government paperwork might be necessary, what fees might be allowable on that paperwork, who is allowed to manufacture and sell them, and exactly where and how these might be carried in public places. But whatever laws there are restricting the ownership or carriage of any bearable weapon, including the ones you mention here, likely will not be around for much longer even in the most rabid anti-liberty US states. It will just require some expensive lawyers and other court costs in the handful of jurisdictions that are still attempting to ban them in contradiction of cases like Miller, Heller, and Caetano. The wheels of justice grind slowly, and chew up a lot of cash in the process, although upon winning many of these costs can be recouped from the state defendants (meaning the taxpayers in those states are responsible for paying the costs of both plaintiffs and government lawyers just to get unconstitutional laws in their states thrown out). More encouraging, is the political process has been working to get rid of many of these bans and other laws seeking to unconstitutionally restrict the ownership and carriage of various weapons. Most of the country no longer requires any sort of government permit or fees to exercise their right to carry weapons outside of the home. Many laws related to various sorts of knives and exotic weapons have been repealed by state legislatures, without needing to go to court. I strongly urge any Americans who care about knife rights, or nunchuck rights, or any other exotic weapons: start caring about gun rights. And vice versa: if you're a gun owner, start caring about what your state's knife laws are. One of the most important Second Amendment cases in recent history was about stun guns, a non-lethal electroshock weapon of frankly very little real-world utility, and it's now cited favorably as one of the key legal precedents in challenging bans or restrictions on every other kind of weapon. Whether you're just a collector of old historical objects, or somebody very interested in personal self-defense, you owe it to yourself to care about the entire spectrum of weapons, and their legality, because it all matters to your own rights. Be an activist in the political process for the entire Second Amendment, and support legal organizations challenging all sorts of weapon laws in the courts, too. And if you are in another country, I strongly urge you to stand up for your natural rights in any way that you can, and there is no more fundamental human right than your right to protect your body from harm. Even in recent history, we have seen a few countries legalizing various weapons, including firearms, so it is possible. And this is not an area where you want to be a "moderate" that only thinks it should be okay for a few things to be legalized, and only at home, and only on Tuesdays. Either you have an absolute right to weapons, and the freedom to choose what is the right weapon for you, or you don't. If you let your government treat it as a privilege, they will take it away. The reality is, criminals will have all the scary things no matter what. They already do. Same with the military of that neighboring country that is looking on your home with covetousness. You should be demanding your right to be able to protect yourself with the same level of force, or greater. There is no moral obligation on your part to make it a fair fight when you defend your life and property from criminals or tyranny. The people who will follow the laws against owning and carrying weapons today aren't going to suddenly become psychotic murderers once weapons are legalized wherever you live. Each individual with the legalized right to keep and bear arms should be trusted to choose whatever weapon meets their personal needs, as not everyone has the same size, strength, or physical capabilities, or the same risk factors in their lives. Laws seeking one-size-fits-all restrictions are inherently ableist, sexist, etc., and treat citizens as disposable subjects that don't have the fundamental human right to live, particularly those citizens who aren't Gregor Clegane from Game of Thrones. Ultimately, guns, particularly semiautomatic pistols and rifles, are the great equalizer.

I think even calling some of the justifications for some laws “shaky” is giving lawmakers and politicians far too much credit. You can attack some laws from every possible angle and it just doesn’t make sense.

From a legal point of view you should keep in mind that "laws" are only in place to give people, whether you're a representative or not, a legal route to take if something like this "has been used" in a bad way, most of us are adults so should know the difference

Same in my state, butterfly knife, automatic knife, gravity knife are all illegal to carry. You can own them and use them inside your home, although you can not buy them in this state or get them mail to you from amazon. But is perfectly legal to carry a 12 inch kitchen knife, no problem with that. In fact there is no limit in inches if the knife is a kitchen knife.

Do you know where I can buy a scabbard for a cheese grater? I don't want to conceiled-carry it to a potluck.

I guess some legislators' nephew was a mall ninja who punched himself with a nunchuck and cut himself on ninja stars and tacticool bollocks.

I remember as a kid I would take out a bread knife from the knife block, and pretend it was a tiny katana. it was about 16 inches long, and maybe hand an inch from the blade to the back of the blade. Very light, and fun to slash open air in the living room with.

5:06 The thing is you're going to notice someone opening a folding knife you're not going to notice a handle in their hand that pops out a blade. A switch blade takes 1 hand to open a folding knife typically takes 2 and if you use one hand it's a slow process even with a tab for one handed opening. I think knife type bans are stupid, but I can see why carry of these are banned but not possession.

14:55 You'd wind up having to ban STAIRS at that point too, way too many injuries and deaths caused by those bad bois

In my state, I can't carry any of these things, but I can carry my custom made 20 inch bowie knife. The damn thing effective is a short messer sword. I usually don't carry it though because my FAVORITE weapon is a brass headed mace that masquerades as a walking cane.

Its just so damned arbitrary. "Oh, you might hurt yourself!" You know what's perfectly legal and causes definite harm to people? Smoking! Drinking! People who do those things KNOW they're unhealthy, but they do it. Source: I'm a smoker, and I'm well aware that I probably will end up with some kind of cancer. Laws that exist to protect you from yourself in this way are hypocritical as hell. Not to mention that banning some weapons and leaving others that are far more lethal legal is pointless.

I like the idea that any object you use to attack another person becomes a weapon. I don't know if this is the case in Sweden but everything that can be used to cause bodily harm if used with bad intentions are illegal to carry on your person or in your car in public places. And intentions are decided by the policeman that interact with you. Unless you carry more than one knife in public, then it's automatically 6 months in prison no matter the intent. Or if you carry a knife in schools, hospitals, places prone to violence and restaurants, then it's also 6 months in prison. If they think you have bad intentions it can be up to 2 years in prison. And this is even before you touch the knife. This law was altered this summer from people needing a knife in their profession to be able to wear it in public to totally banned in for example restaurants. So if you are a carpenter that forgets to leave your knife on the workplace when going for lunch, the actual law says it is 6 months in prison. Unless you are a chef at that restaurant, or have to use cutlery... Then it's okay as long as you didn't have one entering the establishment.....

I have a good friend who got angry when he found out that the switchblade he used to everyday carry was illegal where he lives. So he started to conceal carry a kukri which is legal.

5:05 then there is also the emerson wave, which isn't illegal, and is faster to use and open then a gravity knife

in the uk any blade over half an inch is illegal to own as for tools the laws are pretty similar, but people as you just said can own swords

I just pulled a folder with a ziptie out of my pocket 5 times in a row and it opened and locked itself every time. I tried pulling a Ballisong out and even just remembering which side is the bite handle makes it a terrifying weapon for the user to try to quick draw. The difference between fumbling around and reliably being able to have a drawn, locked knife in your desired grip with less than a second. Yet the Ballisong is the banned-from-concealment one because... flashy flashy spinny trick?

what i find most ironic is that many of those prohibited tools and weapons were, in their historical context, made or used because they were easy to make. shuriken were made of scrap metal and meant to be used as harassment and diversion in guerilla warfare. nunchuks were fuckins farming tools that you could make even if you didn't have enough length of wood for a good ol' stick. original balisongs were really crude folding knives that you could make without any of the precision required to make even the most basic locking knives functional, they couldn't be flipped open back in those days, but with a hammer and using a few nails as rivets, you had a safe folding knife that can't close on your hand.

@3:33 i also recently purchased the boker magnum folding kukri, its fun

LOVE this. Shuriken are usually less dangerous than a good rock. 13 Assassins demonstrated this very well :-)

In Australia all folding knives with locking blades are illegal to carry without a reasonable reason like fishing, self defence is not considered a reasonable reason

You're exactly right.

Quick little info on throwing weapons: metal throwing cards are legal in germany, since they arent classified as a Hiebwaffe (like throwing axes) or a throwing star (or sth like that). All i remember when reading the laws on that is that metal throwing cards somehow slizhers between the 2 illegalities, maiking it a special case, hence it's legality... Germany can be confusing.

7:35 "ah yes the dreaded nunchucks" 7:40 "oh"

My Emerson with the wave opener opens faster than my Benchmade auto. Yet one was outlawed for years

In Lithuania you can own almost all knives, but as it should be you cannot have swords, daggers, automatic knives and butterfly knives on your person. Unless you carry them in a bag or container that distorts their shape.