What Have You Bought Now!!!???

[CanadianMike]

I used to have a butterfly knife 20 years ago, great fun (even though illegal in Canada). I miss flipping it open and closed, decided to try to find one of the bottle opener ones I recently saw, found this one on a site in Quebec, bought it, looking forward to legal fun.

Check out the video they have posted, good fun to watch the guy, his mistake, then his joy at performing the techniques flawlessly.

http://www.letigreargente.com/butterfly-knives.html

[RobbC]

I cant see why they are illegal in the UK

[Martin]

I cant see why they are illegal in the UK

Because it's designed to be used as a weapon. In very much the same way as a flick knife (switch blade) is. It's sole purpose is to be used as a concealed weapon, designed to hurt people.

Martin

[FishyFolk]

I cant see why they are illegal in the UK

Probably the same reason as in Norway.Political symbolism.... Some politician found out he could score a cheap point by getting some legislation banning them in the law books, after someone used them for something other than fun...
Hetre in Norway it was after a couple of murders. The funny thing is that the same year these where banned, someone used a sami knife to chop the head off somone, and the sami knife was not banned...
A few years later they tried to ban the Rambo lok-a-like knives, or rather so called tactical/millitary looking knives after a killing with that. But somebody showed the politicians a sami knife, and asked them to explain exacactly what you can't do with that one that you can not do with a military knife, and why one should be illegal to own, and the other not...the thing is that the sami knife is inseperable from Sami culture, and they are an indigenous people, and their culture is protected by UN charters that Norway have signed...the same with a lot of other types of knives here.

But the butterfly knife does not have that protection...so they managed to make that illegal, a pure symbolic act

[comanighttrain]

theres a good chance that none of these knives are as sharp and good at cutting flesh as some chefs knives... so yeah...totally symbolic...

[RobbC]

Because it's designed to be used as a weapon. In very much the same way as a flick knife (switch blade) is. It's sole purpose is to be used as a concealed weapon, designed to hurt people.

Martin

You say that, but you can go and buy a fairbairn sykes commando dagger, and other combat knivess purly designed to end human lives. Plus you get balisongs with mora style bushcrafty blades

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[AL...]

New Mess tin from Poundland ..
Had no choice realy as I found my old one in my daughters room where she had used it as a paint pallet.
I'd Ground her but she is living down in Brightion now!!!

[claverhouse]

You say that, but you can go and buy a fairbairn sykes commando dagger, and other combat knivess purly designed to end human lives. Plus you get balisongs with mora style bushcrafty blades

You can own a balisong, just like you can own an F-S knife, a lock-knife or a bayonet ...... it is however illegal to carry them in a public place.

[Tony1948]

I,v got one of them butterfly blades and all they are is a jabber,to hert someone,not good.