Is the Swiss Army knife the only legal knife you can own and carry in the UK or Canada?
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Is the Swiss Army knife the only legal knife you can own and carry in the UK or Canada?
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No you almost certainly miss understand UK law. You can carry a bladed tool if the knife is less than 3 inches long but it can’t for example be a folding knife like a Stanley type knife with an locking blade however short the blade is.
It absolutely can’t be carried for self-defence so if your stopped on the way to work fine. On the way to a night out you will be arrested however short the blade might be.
In Scotland there is no legal defence whatsoever even if you just purchased a knife from a store and its in it packaging or using one at work. The minimum sentence is one year in jail. It’s no good pleeding not guilty as there are no exceptions. You have to hope any police officer has common sense because once it goes further you are going to jail. Even in England if you are buying a kitchen knife etc. Make it your last purchase and take it straight home, do not enter any other public place.
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No. Firstly, you can own and carry virtually any knife (so long as it doesn’t fall into a specially proscribed category). Own a huge machete if you want. You just need a good reason to carry it on the occasion. A good reason for carrying it (eg. In your car) might be you’re on the way to some overgrown land that you own, and you need to cut down loads of brambles or whatever. So in that scenario, you could have your huge machete.
You can carry a folding, non-locking blade knife with a blade less than 3 inches without good reason . I assume this is where you get the Swiss Army knife reference from, as the popular models have small blades which don’t lock.
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Not in Canada. The law is not specify any particular brand of knife that is or isn’t legal. Gerber makes perfectly legal knives and so do many other manufacturers. However even carrying a Swiss Army knife for the purpose of using it as a weapon for self-defense is illegal. Carry the same knife for utility purposes and it’s perfectly legal. Certain types of knives such as switchblades and balisong knives are prohibited weapons.
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Let me ask you a Question, to put yours into perspective.
Is Victorinox the only street-legal luggage brand you can own and use to put your stuff in?
No?
Really?
Wow.
Just imagine a world where people can just, like, do their own thing, and no-one cares enough to so much as make a snotty aside, or look at you sideways, because they have unresolved issues…
PS
It is called ‘projection’.
PPS
I hear tell brand loyalty is a big thing some places, and in those places fetishisation is so routine no one notices when it approaches a medical condition.
But luckily in both the UK and Canada, there are working public health systems, that include mental health services…
See:
—for a classic example of brand loyalty beyond reason, based on nothing but false promises and knocking copy.
The obvious cure – perform a reality check, in person – is rarely pursued in case lived experience bursts the comfort bubble…
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Basically what he says, although I can’t speak for Canada.
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You can carry almost any knife in Canada except for butterfly and switchblade knives.
I am carrying this one today. Not a Swiss Army knife, eh?
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You can carry pretty much anything in Canada. I remember walking into a small city just off the Bruce trail with a small hatchet strapped to my pack. Now if I were walking around the downtown, casually swinging say a small machete in my hand, I’d expect the police to talk to me. But I’ve trimmed hedges with a machete and nobody said ‘boo.’
I have seen guys around with a four or five inch fixed knife on their belt. Most workers use lockbacks at that size. Nobody cares as long as your minding your own business and not threatening anybody.
I had the 4″ Swiss Army picnicker lock back for several years, and carried it in my carryon until 911. I saw a guard pull it out once and show it to her supervisor. They let it through I think because it WAS a swiss army knife. (I used it to cut apples, bread, cheese, etc. in my hotel room.) These days I make do with a 3″ swiss army and use the saw and buy baguette.
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Not at all, it is the length of the blade which matters. That length is currently set at 3 inches. If found in possession of one longer than that, and you re guaranteed a prison sentence.
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The UK any knife ovr 3 inches is classed as a weapon however there’s a lot of discretion in assuming that….. examples would be, you have a knife with no logical or arguable reason it would be a weapon, but in your toolbag it wouldn’t be, there’s some grey areas that your best just to stay away from by not carrying a knife for any reason, protecting yourself isn’t a good reason,
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A folding knife with up to a three inch blade is legal in the UK, but in Canada a knife of any length can be carried, if the carrier has a legal purpose for wearing anything bigger than a pocket knife. There are styles of knives which are banned in Canada, plus the intended use of the blade you are carrying must be, in no way, nefarious.
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In the UK any bladed implement not carried for regular use in you work or a hobby you are currently engaged in may be considered an offensive weapon and thus illegal. Many people will argue, it is just a pen knife, but we no longer cut and maintain our pens from goose quills, so strike that excuse.
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