Including a knife in your uk get home bag

[lightningxl]

Just a thought carry a mask and snorkel and wetsuit - tell the police your a deepsea diver and the knife is part of your safety kit when they stop your car.

OK for Plymouth not sure about Middle England.....

[Wulfshead]

I have a penknife on me at all times too. And a leatherman. And an athame*, which I use for digging up roots and interesting bits of quartz.




*An athame is a religious knife and absolutely never, not ever ever, used to draw blood. Feel free to google

I read that somewhere but to be historically correct the Athame has been related to the Middle Eastern tribe whose traditional knife was called 'blood letter'
I think the modern ideas that the Atheme should not draw blood is a corruption via wicca.
Those off us that follow the Northern Way, ergo the ancestral pre-Christian ingress Way of the Northern Germanic peoples would point to the rituals practiced at Uppsala being very much orientated to the offering of blood.
Even the ritual of the sacrament in Christian practice here in the North is designed to mirror the heathen Blot which again had the Aweweard (OE for priest) ritually slaughtering the ritual beast and casting its blood around the stall and those there in attendance.
I hope you don't mind me pointing that out but there was a folkish-spiritual understanding long before Gerald Gardner ever made up his own eclectic version of the Arte Magickal.

As for carrying a knife in a BOB, when the SHTF why take up room in a pack with what you can wear on your person, in a time when the rule of law goes down only a fool would expect the bad guys to behave by the rules !
I can carry long knives with me as blade-smithing is my business. If I travel to personally deliver a knife I lock it in a lockable container but let the police know I am personally delivering a blade. I also carry business cards that clearly suggest why I have a knife on my person.

Wulfshead

[redskies]

I'm not wiccan

[Plymtom]

I'm not wiccan

No no no neither am I, I will not be assimulated

[Ghost Prepper]

occasionally i may carry a Katana About just for Sh**s & giggles & to see what police do. i have permission to carry it for self defence as i am trained in the use of it. im a black belt in Tai Jut Su. once i was surronded by armed cops and arrested without question. it was pretty scary

[lonewolf]

if everything has gone TU, you need your knife on your belt where you can get at it(or on a cord round your neck) not at the bottom of your bag.

[ForgeCorvus]

occasionally i may carry a Katana About just for Sh**s & giggles & to see what police do. i have permission to carry it for self defence as i am trained in the use of it. im a black belt in Tai Jut Su. once i was surronded by armed cops and arrested without question. it was pretty scary

Are the rules different over in NI then ?

LW. I think the question is about having a cutting tool in your kit Pre-Event not during an Event

[redskies]

if everything has gone TU, you need your knife on your belt where you can get at it(or on a cord round your neck) not at the bottom of your bag.

Yup. But since it happens, mine can stop in the bottom of my pack, where it's not going to get me into trouble!

[lonewolf]

I wear a lock knife in a pouch on my belt 24/7 365 days a year without anyone even raising an eyebrow, but then I don't live in a big city, I haven't seen a plod to speak to for 15 years and I don't go waving it about, its just there to hand when I need it.

[redskies]

We live round trip of just over fifty miles from the nearest police station (and supermarket, butchers etc etc!), and rarely see the police. It takes them the best part of an hour to get here.

But that doesn't mean I want to be walking round with a fixed blade knife of that length on my belt; it'd make the tourists nervous!