UK Knife laws Theory VS Reality 

I collect knives and I always cut myself with non-locking blades. However I have never cut myself with locking knives

@@hamstermunchies5558 Same I own like 14 and all of them have locks and I have literally NEVER cut myself once but I own one non lock and my thumb needed stitchs

@@greasythegreaser1825 Ouch! My Victorinox SAK collection always gets me. So satisfying to play with and snap but can't let your mind wander off while you're playing with them

Pretty much sums up the uk

It’s to stop you from stabbing someone

IF YOU DO NOT COOPERATE, WE WILL TAZE YOU, OR EVEN CALL THE ARMED POLICE

Should have used incognito mode.

Ha

Feel free to use the CS gas, I am prepared.

Most german police forces use pepperspray(OC based) instead of CS gas because its more reliable. Quite hillarous considering it is literally not allowed to be used against people. Civilians are only allowed to use pepperspray against animals, only CS gas is allowed to be used against humans. But police apperently doesn't care.

Good to see Texas is freedom loving as usual.

Was a bit stupid that you could carry an AR 15 but not a knife.

Same in Tennessee

Good job texas

same in oregon

Sounds like a cuck museum sadly.

Weaponsandstuff93 They have a bunch of “Statistics” that basically sum down to: “We need to ban knives so that our murder rate is 1% lower than Denmark! And best of all, they have a bizarre comic strip thing about a teenager that murders someone with a knife and is arrested, and they act like it was a weird accident, and he wouldn’t of hurt anyone if he didn’t have a knife. It ruined the rest of the museum for me.

@@the0mighty0burrito It is just a political fad, it will pass the same as checks clothes disappeared over time.

@@tracybeme1597 No it will never disappear because here, in the UK, the law doesn't care about legal citizens rights. They would rather protect the criminals.

@@spiko-ou3bp "They" own both Parties and Houses of Parliament.

Crimes with said items still increase, for example the UK now has more shootings than at the peak when firearms were far easier to obtain.

@@Weaponsandstuff93 but... But... They are prohibited!!!.. Ni, the whole thing isn't funny anymore. I am really sorry for you, guys. Greetings from the other side of the canal...

ACID

Banning something makes more crimes, like if you try to get a gun, you are breaking 2 laws owning a firearm and someone dealing the firearm.

War on drugs- more drugs war on Terror-more terriousts War on poverty-more poverty it be nice if we had a war on money becuse everything works opposite

The tighter the seal the better. Makes for a more fun time.

Skidaddle, Skadoodle, your Meme is now property of the glorious soviet regime.

Lol

Once I saw a walrus toss a poor little harbor seal off of a rock

goes to stab someone in a shopping centre... 100 people turn around with 6 inch blade locking knives in their hand (cue temple run music)

@@masondavies1621 this is funny 😂

It really wouldn't go down since majority of knife crimes are not actually committed using knives like this they're committed using kitchen knives

this comment aged horribly lol, england is in the situation you described and they have a very high knife crime rate

@@horror_punk480 last time i checked no changes were made to knife law :/

Yup

@Anomaly90 lmao we can't even have knifes yet. worry about the guns later.

@@spiko-ou3bp but we still have guns and shooting ranges legally, look up the Blackburn shooting recently he was part of / a member of Blackburn gun club, learning shooting an then Carrys out a murder

My neighbor was part of this club in 80s- 90s they had alsorts of guns including replicars of Clint Eastwood's cowboy pistols guns,Rifle and gun belt fully working, had the same stitching to match they had 44 magnum same as dirty harry, Shot guns, 9mms, Berettas ,Glochs, made there own bullets under the stairs. There son I grew up with Crazy that we as kids handled these guns when they went out as a they kept there porn locked up in same cupboard, back in betamax days, they where odd but lost some guns after the UK laws changed but kept some. We moved away so not sure if they still have them or not but as a child we did have gun shops and knife shops locally, I used to collect knifes when I was younger my grandad, Dad and brother did, We still have several throwing knifes Bowie knifes flick knifes butterfly knifes, Gurkyr and machetes, We used as we used to camp out a lot growing up with it being cheap holidays and such but was taught to be responsible an respectful with knifes how to use handle and throw them properly poorer trees where battered at end of weekend not once did I need to carry a knife for or want to for protection you had your ✊ for that. All are legal if they stay in house. But illegal if take out side the house to carry ect. With the new laws. These younger ones are stupid they have had some very nice expensive exceptional crafted knifes banned because they have no regard or respect for them which most of these idiots use kitchen knifes anyway for there stupid antics cheap things where as quality knifes cost and last a long time if looked after

They are if you listen to this blokes poor understanding of the law.

@@Halon_1211 😂😂😂

And there we are ! Thanks for giving them the idea...

Cheers, as said at this point I regularly just carry a lock knife on me if I have a reason for having it, as if they throw the book at me I'd rather have been carrying a safer knife to use.

Get a knife with a sheath and it is legal if it's under three inches, it doesn't lock because it doesn't fold so if it not a combat knife so if it is something such as a fishing or hunting knife then you will be able to carry this on you legally.

@@itisimatadvc unless the cops decide to not like you..

Glasgow was the knife crime capital of europe

Archetype Bias I don’t believe that

Glasgow is stab capital of western Europe !! Razor gangs of like old days to football violence we never really let it go coz we still got the old firm 🖕

@@user-to8qe5du9u believe it mate, Glasgow is rough even nowadays.

Michelle Nich yh but football is everywhere and I’m pretty sure London is now

Good for you, much better laws than here.

From the episode of the Simpsons - Bart vrs Australia. When Bart had a knife whilst in a bar in Australia, a bloke came up to Bart and said "you call that a knife? This is a knife!" then pulls out a spoon. Bart tells him that it's a spoon and he says that he sees Bart has played "knifey-spoony" before.

Lol wait until you hear what Americans can buy.

Yeah a mate of mine got threatened whilst outside their hotel with a switch blade in Austria

@Max You are mistaken. Australia has exactly the same knife carry laws as England.

Strange there's a law on dirks but yes UK knife laws are nonsensical at best.

Strange laws

Indeed

Cut the blade of a Longsword off and fix it into some PVC so it folds

And here in Indiana, USA as long as it isn't a ballistic knife or throwing star you're good. You can carry throwing knives, switch blades, long swords, etc and the most they can do is just tell you to put it in your car if you're going to an event or building that doesn't allow weapons.

You can own a longsword, but carrying "weapons" is not allowed. Long swords are weapons by design, so you couldn't carry those.

Hungary is similar

Where everyone carrys guns and knives 🤔

@@David-cm4ok not everyone

@@David-cm4ok yeah good

Wrong it is down to judges and courts to decide whether you have a valid excuse for carrying one as for the police whether you have a valid excuse or not they don't care you'll have it taken off you and booked into a cell so when released will be brought in front of a judge for the judge to decide whether you did wrong or not as far as the police are concerned you've done wrong as you're still carrying a weapon and maximum prison sentence for it is 4 years and they can give you an unlimited fine since the fine laws used to be £5,000 until it changed in 2015 and the police are only doing what they're told to do and chances are they've more than likely been given the chance but then they got gobby which led to their arrest

[guywithaminigun ] you gota permit for that loisence mate

@@zucclinda9702 you got a loicense for asking ya cheeky bastard?

Firearms? Oh, know them from TV … never seen one in real life! Do they really exist? 😜

@@GanymedeXD come to America and we can show you the light 😇

True I think when they originally wrote it they were thinking of the scary switchblades mafia guys always use in movies (same reason they banned basically all the ninja weapons), but the Opinel is more of a slow open, use two hands to slide the ring lock kind of deal. Less threatening.

The law was clarified in Harris vs DPP, so the locking opinel is not a grey area, quite clear cut (pun intended).

@@caskwith so it's illegal to carry without "good reason"?

@@tidge879 Correct.

Nah Bcs non locking have to be able to be refolded without the use of any other mechanism

Cheers

And people have still been charged for having swiss army knives on them, so your basically not safe with our laws.

Cheers, and sadly these new laws will not do anything to actually restrict knife crime.

@@Weaponsandstuff93 True.....Nobody in power wants to really tackle it.....They choose a public pacifying option that has no hope of ever working.

Meanwhile I assume plenty of your collection must be turned in as we are not allowed to keep em at home any more.

@@GanymedeXD No, I'm Ok. It's still legal for most knives to be kept at home. The only restricted ones being gravity knives, ballisongs, button spring knives, and probably a couple more I can't think of. I can have pretty much any knife other than that. When the blades get to 'sword length' then I'm still Ok, as long as they don't resemble curved Samurai swords.......Even Samurai swords are still legal, as long as they're hand made Carbon steel. That loophole might be tightened, if it already hasn't been.

Yeah I used to have a Gerber lock knife under 3 inches with no flip mechanism useless for nefarious uses, but very safe for utility uses, but the law treats it the same as a giant Bowie for example.

WeaponCollector dude, i love your vids surprised to see you here

Then you are safe.

Weaponsandstuff93 I live in the state of Connecticut, and basically, I can own any knife, but if the blade is longer than 4 inches, or if it's a switchblade you can't be caught with in out in public

I live in wa and could stay strapped with a sword if I wanted to.

How do you own a deadly assualt weapon? Don’t go on a mass stabbing spree where the knife grows legs and magically becomes evil

Cheers

They've only gotten worse.

www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives The big list near the bottom is everything that is banned/will be banned.

thank you for the reply

Sadly if it's locking it's automatically not allowed for EDC, you need a specific reason to carry it. I have a less than 2" Gerber lock knife, falls under the same rules as my 6" lock knife...

@@Weaponsandstuff93 - These rules are ridiculous. Anyways, thank you for the information. 👍👍

Depends on the type but if you are caught carrying the technically legal ones you could get done.

Fair enough

Lock knives are perfectly legal to own in your home.

@@Weaponsandstuff93 perfect thank you for the reply

Cheers

If that was in the UK that's because its illegal for anyone under 18 to be sold or in possession of or own them but if it was under adult supervision then it shouldn't have even mattered since it was an adults property and you were just using it

rattlesnake survival that's already been done, it's called self defence and that's not allowed here in the UK. Just have to lay there and take the beating from the criminal and then one from the police afterwards

I wish reason for emigrating could be as simple as UK refugee.

bigjizzyD plese just move to America

Wished I could bro! Best wishes friend 👍🏽👍🏽

@@bigjizzyD not true

I tend to just use a sharpening block so I guess that's free hand otherwise I just use a pull through sharpener

Technically you can legally own it just not carry without justification

Weaponsandstuff93 : it’s so confusing ain’t it. Like the torch I might have bought, but it had a stun gun head on it. The one thing I legally own and can’t be challenged for is my 6,000 lumen torch with a mega fast strobe and a glass breaker on the tail. Thanks for taking your time to reply. Keep safe. RgY 💯👍

No butterfly knives are being made totally illegal in the UK, the majority of knives you can own on private property but there is also a banned list.

Depends as and where you have it as not every situation you are in requires it to be on you and it all comes down to who searches you and if you start get cocky and gobby which majority of people start to do which escalates the situation to the point they pretty much bring an arrest on themselves and all legal pocket knives have to be concealed and not on show to the public as when it's not concealed is when it becomes illegal and you get in trouble

Most annoying is that shitloads of items is now illegal to have in your home! Goodbye decorative swords in your living room!

There is no such thing like ‘fully’ UK legal … depends in situation! And hence on cop!

Yeah very sad isn't it

@@Weaponsandstuff93 yes but my sec 139 curiosity has caused me to make a mace for curiosity alone

Yeah very strange

@@Weaponsandstuff93 especially considering the opinel is likely as sharp as the Stanley

Swiss army pocket knives are one of the legal ones as the blade is way under 3 inches its not lockable and its technically a foldable blade aswell which is one of the requirements for a legal pocket knife to be carried on you and I wonder why Stanley blades can be legal when once they open it locks into place and you have to press a button to press the blade back into the case and painters and decorators etc always have one on them when working

Those sound like sensible laws rather than "OI WHERE'S YOUR LICENSE!"

Weaponcollector has done a video on a knife like that, that used a Allen key to lock the knife, quite a clever design.

Stupid.

US … well … we only know firearms from TV!

Yeah basically as I said in the video

I wish the law was reasonable.

always put a "mushroom book" and some bags in your backpack ;-)

The worst ones are the folding utility knives some companies make that the police can claim is a concealed blade pretending to be a credit card

Yeah that's the problem even if you technically don't break a law, you could still have to endure all the legal proceedings just for it to be thrown out later on

Read Harris vs DPP which clarified the law on that. Basically it cannot have anything that impedes the folding of the blade.