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Home » UK Cracking down on “Zombie Knives”. Again. Still…

UK Cracking down on “Zombie Knives”. Again. Still…

Adam Green By Adam Green September 4, 2024 2 Min Read
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UK Cracking down on “Zombie Knives”. Again. Still…

Remember that slippery slope of continual government regulation followed by overreach by always justifying “we just need to do a little more and then our plans will work” TTAG wrote about the other day? Well, if you don’t believe in it, just take a look at what’s playing out in the United Kingdom.

As knife crime surges in the U.K., the government has launched an amnesty and compensation scheme targeting “zombie-style” knives and machetes, urging citizens to turn in these newly banned weapons before facing potential legal repercussions. This initiative, which began last week and runs until September 23, 2024, marks the latest in a series of increasingly restrictive measures aimed at curbing violent crime in a country where the possession of firearms is already heavily regulated.

The move, spearheaded by the Home Office, adds these “zombie-style” weapons—often characterized by their aggressive appearance and association with fictionalized violence i.e., zombie movies like “The Walking Dead”—to the growing list of prohibited items in the U.K., including butterfly knives, Samurai swords and push daggers. According to the government, these knives serve no legitimate purpose and are primarily used to intimidate or inflict harm. (Nice of them to decide for their citizens including collectors what is legitimate and what isn’t.)

Read the whole thing at TheTruthAboutGuns.com

I am not sure why this is news, I thought that they had been outlawed when the zombie thing was a trend. Back when I was Managing Editor at TTAG spinoff site, The Truth About Knives. However, like zombies, bad knife laws refuse to stay dead.

 

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