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Carrying a knife on your person however, that is banned in a lot of EU countries. Exceptions being you need it for work, or the knife needs to be transported fr
by pelorat 6y ago
Carrying a knife on your person however, that is banned in a lot of EU countries. Exceptions being you need it for work, or the knife needs to be transported from one place to another.
- jhgb 6y agoDefine "a lot". I'm aware only of the UK. In my country you can walk with a sword in public and nobody bats an eye. You just can't swing it at people.
- ridaj 6y agohttps://www.all4shooters.com/en/shooting/knives/Legislation-in-Europe-overview/ https://www.all4shooters.com/en/shooting/knives/Legislation-...
- jhgb 6y agoCool beans, so it's roughly half of them or so. Nevertheless it still seems to be a ban not on knives but on some of their uses, such as using them against people or planning to do so.
- La1n 6y agoThis link also indicates: >Carrying regularly requires a "justified reason" or a "legitimate purpose" That was kind of the point OP was making right? Only certain uses of knives are prohibited.
- ridaj 6y agoNeeding to have a legitimate purpose / justified reason is a higher bar than "not swinging at people". It means if you're a gardener going to work cutting down bushes it's ok to carry a machete, but if you're just an ass carrying a katana in your back just for the looks, "but I wasn't swinging it at anyone" won't get you out of jail
- Dylan16807 6y agoIt's pretty misleading to say "certain uses" when it includes the default. In the list of reasons you might have a knife, the blatantly good reasons are allowed, the blatantly bad reasons are disallowed, and everything else is disallowed.