metatron wrote:
The Scots (Sgian-dubh) and the Sikhs (Kirpan) can carry a fixed blade. I wonder if I as an English man rocked a 5.11 tactical duty kilt, if I could legally carry a fixed blade.
I love that is there nothing in the magnacarta for us Englishmen! I dont thgink the old long bow and arrows would go down too well either if you were "open carrying" them down the road, but it used to be law to practice and own one after becoming 12 years old
I too a non criminal record holding good citizen, would have alot to say if i was told i should not have my pocket knife with me.
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junmist wrote:ok I need a fluttering eyelash icon As a woman I have never been asked if I carry any type of knife even though I carry a couple, one is a swiss army a fixed blade in the car and on the odd occasion a large kitchen knife( don't ask)
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I'm not antisocial, just anti idiot.
If you use the phase "man up" you have alot to learn.
"Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools, because they have to say something" Plato.
metatron wrote:I've got a bunch of UK legal blades, but to be fair I'll carry whatever I feel like, as I have use for one handed opening blades that lock within my work in IT. If the police really want to go after me, a guy who has never committed a crime and pays his taxes and give me issues, then they only have themselves to blame when they are spending tens of thousands giving me a short stint inside her majesties prison service, and then the thousands they will need to spend on benefits when I just don't feel like working or have a bad attitude towards employers.
I'm never going to change my behaviour, as it would be against my principles to give into an unjust and unevenly enforced law. Now if there were some type of law like using a tool in a threatening way, I'd understand that.
The Scots (Sgian-dubh) and the Sikhs (Kirpan) can carry a fixed blade. I wonder if I as an English man rocked a 5.11 tactical duty kilt, if I could legally carry a fixed blade.
I wouldn't get to animated about us 'sweaties' all carrying sgian dubh's, if you're fully booted and spurred and at a wedding then you can get away with it but contrary to popular belief we don't all go out with a chib down our socks. It really is ceremonial, I'm sure if you guys were cutting about in your national costumes, you could carry big sticks.
Want to hear something truly ridiculous concerning this law? I work outside an a engineer on heavy plant so a knife was and is a essential piece of kit, after discussion with local police, I stopped carrying a knife on the belt, now I carry a wee axe! razor sharp, no problem there, a axe is seen as a tool for work unlike a knife, admittedly its a small one buts all in the perception of the ignorant rather than the reality.
junmist wrote:ok I need a fluttering eyelash icon As a woman I have never been asked if I carry any type of knife even though I carry a couple, one is a swiss army a fixed blade in the car and on the odd occasion a large kitchen knife( don't ask)
Be careful with the car as its still a public place , in my truck I carried a big box of tools in the back with a Mora in it which by general consensus would be ok because of the context , but a Sog seal pup in the glove compartment of my C-Max would be a different story............
mongrel wrote:Want to hear something truly ridiculous concerning this law? I work outside an a engineer on heavy plant so a knife was and is a essential piece of kit, after discussion with local police, I stopped carrying a knife on the belt, now I carry a wee axe! razor sharp, no problem there, a axe is seen as a tool for work unlike a knife, admittedly its a small one buts all in the perception of the ignorant rather than the reality.
is there nothing in the magnacarta for us Englishmen! I dont thgink the old long bow and arrows would go down too well either if you were "open carrying" them down the road, but it used to be law to practice and own one after becoming 12 years old 
As a woman I have never been asked if I carry any type of knife even though I carry a couple, one is a swiss army a fixed blade in the car and on the odd occasion a large kitchen knife( don't ask) 
