oh I wouldn't have considered this as an EDC, I have that covered lol. It will probably stay in my collection at home for now...
I'm 100% convinced it wouldn't break the law carrying it in the car, the law states you can only carry fixed blade knives/locking knives with a reason e.g. transporting them, legitimate work tools etc... being a release knife, (with that etched on the blade) and being kept in the car for the purpose of cutting belts in an emergency, assuming I didn't go around pointing it at people threateningly yada yada yada there would be no legal grounds for any action against me.
However, some officers around here are proverbial penises, and as they can pretty much confiscate it at will... I don't want it lost.
that's actually the reason I don't have any nice fixed blade hunting knives or bushcraft knives, despite it being legal to carry it for the purpose of practicing bushcraft (which is all I want it for, honest) it only takes one officer with an overly endowed forehead to confiscate it and me lose a potentially expensive knife...
jansman wrote:Every country has its laws peculiar to its own situation. I was reading recently about some American states where it is illegal to catch rainwater in a water butt from your OWN roof! And ' Zoning' ( I guess that is planning permission) that makes it illegal to keep chickens and grow vegetables in your OWN garden!
Crazy world.
it's not just America that has crazy planning laws, while I was living with my parents earlier this year I was working on my car on the driveway for a few weekends (in a neighbourly manner, no loud noises/power tools) and I had a Council Representative turn up to tell me that if I am going to be working on my own car I need to apply for planning permission to change the property status from residential to light industrial!! further investigation into local rules revealed that we were also not allowed to keep chickens, (or any other fowl), more than 2 dogs or cats, leave washing on our line overnight, leave our bins outside the house unless it was collection day, park a boat on our driveway, park a caravan on our driveway, build a shed, fit solar panels, among a multitude of other things... oh apparently we also had more cars than was acceptable (4 adults living there, 4 cars, all on our driveway)
baffling.
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bet everyone with a car has broken the planning laws I assume that even topping up the screen wash would get some over zealous council official overly excited
