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Repeal Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959 amended 1961

Submitted on Sunday 8th October 2017

Published on Friday 13th October 2017

Current status: Closed

Closed: Friday 13th April 2018

Signatures: 15

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Repeal Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959 amended 1961

Petition Details

The Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959 (amended in 1961) banned the importation, manufacture, sale, hiring, lending
of knives that are not manually opened by hand, and not locked
in place by hand.

Should the mechanism of a knife should determine it's legality? I don't believe it should.

Additional Information

Please don't take my word for it, read the sources yourself and please consider another perspective apart from your own. We all benefit from talking

Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/37

Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1961 Amendment:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/22

"The Toy That Kills" article that started mass hysteria of "flick knives" which are knives that open by the push of a button:
http://bayimg.com/oajmkAagC


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