So when are you blokes in the UK slated to turn in your hands and feet?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5086922.stm

WOW. Don't mean to sound like a jerk, but good luck with that.....

Whats next
Your Cricket bats

No, our cricket bats are sacred articles!

But we will probably have to relinquish our kitchen cutlery and garden tools next, leaving us with plastic knives and forks to eat from and discarded antlers for garden tools!

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The five-week amnesty, running until 30 June, allows people to surrender knives at police stations without fear of punishment.

OK, I read where carrying a knife can get you four years in the can. But is there now a penalty in England for just owning a knife?

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Originally posted by Andy Mass:
No, our cricket bats are sacred articles!

You guys can keep your sacred cricket bats. I'll keep my sacred right to bear arms (and about any damned knife I feel like as well), thanks very much.

Hope, just for carrying without a reasonable excuse. So if you carry a knife out hunting or fishing, no problems...carry one for no reason in a town centre on a Saturday afternoon and you are on shakey ground...The law itself was framed with a certain amount of common sense in mind, but common sense is not that common in our police :-(

Regards,

Pete

A case in our local rag comes to mind from a couple of seasons ago.

A chap had gone to fix a HGV that needed roadside recovery, and on his way back was pulled over by Plod (can't remember why, just a late night stop l think). ln his tool box he had a 4" lock knife, that he explained to Plod and the Court he needed to cut hose lines/drivebelts and the like (fairplay you'd think) Not so... several £'s worth of fines latter the poor chap's got a rap sheet for carrying an offensive weapon.

How much did it cost for Plod and the Courts to deal with that, at the expense of a working man????

My Highly Regarded British Hunting, Shooting & Fellow AR Members....



Just own up to it - your Laws, Courts, Media & general population have simlpy lost it and consider an Orwellian Britian the New Wave of the future - thankfully not elsewhere in the world.....

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As well as knives, Devon and Cornwall police also received an 8lb anti-tank rocket launcher, known as a "tankbuster", which has a range of up to 350 metres.

I believe those west country reds are bigger than their scottish cousins but this is ridiculous!!!


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