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Are there any countries with restrictions on buying swords? Seems it is as easy for those autists to order swords from internet retailers as it would be for them to buy a taser or pepper spray.
 
millais said:
Are there any countries with restrictions on buying swords? Seems it is as easy for those autists to order swords from internet retailers as it would be for them to buy a taser or pepper spray.
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There are restrictions on knives but generally no restrictions on swords aside from very old legislation. The simple reason being that swords are a very impractical weapon whereas knives are quite practical. In Canada it is illegal to carry a knife for self defense
 
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millais said:
Are there any countries with restrictions on buying swords? Seems it is as easy for those autists to order swords from internet retailers as it would be for them to buy a taser or pepper spray.
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Yes there are- in India and Italy one cannot buy sharp swords.

In the uk one cannot own a curved sword made with non traditional methods as too many people were attacking police and each other with cheap katanas. That said traditional just means forged and not cut from sheet metal or stainless steel so all that law has done is remove the very cheapest and least practical weapons. Here is no restrictions on antiques at all.
 
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Vitriol said:
In the uk one cannot own a curved sword made with non traditional methods as too many people were attacking police and each other with cheap katanas. That said traditional just means forged and not cut from sheet metal or stainless steel so all that law has done is remove the very cheapest and least practical weapons. Here is no restrictions on antiques at all.
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The law was for all swords with a curved blade over 50cm, with exceptions such as the traditional means one you mentioned, along with antiques, any katana manufactured before 1954 (not sure why), religion (i.e. Sikhs), re-enactors etc.

The banned swords are actually still perfectly legal to own as they were grandfathered, it's only illegal to import, sell or trade them. That's one of the reasons why there are still a weird number of people bombing around with swords cutting each other up.
 
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The law was for all swords with a curved blade over 50cm, with exceptions such as the traditional means one you mentioned, along with antiques, any katana manufactured before 1954 (not sure why), religion (i.e. Sikhs), re-enactors etc.

The banned swords are actually still perfectly legal to own as they were grandfathered, it's only illegal to import, sell or trade them. That's one of the reasons why there are still a weird number of people bombing around with swords cutting each other up.
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yeah it's a good example of what is sometimes called a Swiss cheese law- it's more exception than exclusion and has had very little practical effect.
 
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That and I think most shops have just ignored it, along with imports from the rest of Europe slipping through half the time.

It's like, most of the children's toy guns and the market stall BB guns in the UK were actually banned in 2008, but nobody seems to have realised it and it doesn't stop all the supermarkets selling them with no dramas.
 
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yeah it's a good example of what is sometimes called a Swiss cheese law- it's more exception than exclusion and has had very little practical effect.
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When the exceptions are this broad there's no real way to tell the difference between items that are proscribed and ones that have been grandfathered except in the unlikely event you actually catch people red-handed importing. These junky, trashy items are not that distinctive.
 
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Thanks for this thread. As a person who dabbled in HEMA back in the day, I found it extremely hard not to powerlevel or sperg in the lolcows section.
 
Swords are cool but swords > Guns.

Pic related: best raifu.
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The loss of the German school makes me quite sad, to be honest. It seems such a shame that a people could carelessly toss away an art so versatile and steeped in tradition for more flashier rapier-based fencing.
 
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The loss of the German school makes me quite sad, to be honest. It seems such a shame that a people could carelessly toss away an art so versatile and steeped in tradition for more flashier rapier-based fencing.
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The nice thing about the German School is Dueling Scars
 
Tranhuviya said:
The loss of the German school makes me quite sad, to be honest. It seems such a shame that a people could carelessly toss away an art so versatile and steeped in tradition for more flashier rapier-based fencing.
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The German school is alive and well! Just not really in the English speaking world.
 
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