Check that. Kershaw knives have a locking blade so even my 3 inch long model will get me prison time in England.
Tell me, please. What sort of a government bans a tool because it carries an important safety feature like being able to lock the blade in place while working with it?
So in short the answer to my question is “no, I can’t. And if I do the British government will put me in a British prison.”
You’re being governed by lunatics. You do realize that. Don’t you?
Not that we are all that much better....
Thanks again for the help.
As long as you have a valid reason for carrying, you will be fine.
The draconial knife laws are aimed by and large in the UK at the youth. Remember most of our violent crime, inc murder, is committed by knife. We are a nation of the knife, just as you are a nation of the gun.
You don’t actually get prison here just for carrying a knife. Or even a charge. It depends on the context and the carrier, the punishments are aimed at the violent and/or persistent offender. Which perhaps the cold black and white of the GOV website dosent show. Plenty of UK people will carry a knife every day for legitimate reasons and unless you are waving it about, or are mistaken for a gang thug, youll be fine.
I have carried many times myself, and because I don’t look ‘gang’, aren’t 18 anymore, and my knives were safely on my person and not in plain view, I have never once been stopped. And I once walked half a mile home with a commando knife and 2 flickknives in my pockets and carrying a samurai sword in a sheath!. LOL.
The police almost exclusively stop youths they suspect of carrying. Its actually rare a copper would stop you, an adult, on suspicion.
Lunatics?. No.
Well intentioned but flawed and over-draconian laws, yes.