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FRWL briefcase knife
Hello, I work with a small manufacturing company that is thinking of doing a limited run of the attache case knife used in FRWL. These would be true to the movie knife and made out of steel not aluminum. Just wondering if there is any interest in these from the fan community or a waste of time and money...
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Well that's true.
Agreed that the sale of such concealed knives and the carrying of such knives and other offensive weapons in a public place is illegal under UK law going back many years to at least the Prevention of Crime Act 1953, s. 1(1).
Here is a list of the relevant statutes on knives in the UK:
The Prevention of Crime Act 1953
Prohibits the carrying of any offensive weapon in a public place without lawful authority or reasonable excuse. A public place includes private premises to which the public have access. An offensive weapon is defined as any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to the person, or intended by the person for such use. Maximum penalty: Six months imprisonment and/or £5000 fine.
The Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, hire or offer for sale or hire, and importation of flick knives and gravity knives. Maximum penalty: Six months imprisonment and/or £5000 fine.
The Criminal Justice Act (CJA) 1988
Created an offence of having an article with a blade or point in a public place without good reason or lawful excuse. An exemption applies to folding pocket knives with a blade of less that three inches. (In my view this is a nonsense…three inches ‘kills‘. This was proven to be the size of the knife that killed Westley). Maximum penalty: Up to two years imprisonment.
CJA 1988 also prohibited the manufacture, sale, hire, offer for sale or hire of a range of weapons specified in the Criminal Justice Act (Offensive Weapons) Order 1988. These are mainly items designed to cause serious injury, for example knuckledusters, handclaws and certain Martial Arts equipment, or those which can be easily concealed, including swordsticks. Maximum penalty: Six months imprisonment and/or £5000 fine.
Offensive Weapons Act 1996 - amended the 1988 Act
To prohibit the sale of knives and certain articles with a blade or point to persons under the age of 16. Maximum penalty: Six months imprisonment and/or £5000 fine.
Knives Act 1997
Created offences relating to the unlawful marketing of knives as suitable for combat, or in ways likely to stimulate or encourage violent behaviour. It also extended the power to stop and search in anticipation of violence contained in the Criminal Justice & Public Order Act 1994. Maximum penalty: Six months imprisonment and/or £5000 fine. (It is interesting, this figure for a fine is the same as that imposed in 1953...£5000. In 1953 this would probably have bought 5 or 6 terraced houses on the outskirts of London).
Section 60 of the Criminal Justice & Order Act 1994, as amended by the Knives Act 1997 - contains a power under which an Officer or Inspector rank or above could, in certain circumstances, authorise Police Officers within a given area to stop and search for offensive weapons.
Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006
Since the introduction of the Violent Crime Reduction Bill on the 9th June, 2005 further provisions and amendments were made in October, 2006 to raise the minimum age to buy a knife from 16 to 18. The maximum sentence for carrying a knife without good reason was also increased from 2 years to 4 years, along with giving Teachers more power to search pupils for weapons - Royal Assent of this Bill, November, 2006! And, there you have it…Legislation, and plenty of it! It’s a wonder anyone ever gets charged with an offence at all…Police are too busy trying to keep up with the Laws?
Home Office records show that the number of people killed with a sharp instrument in 1994 was 231. In 2005 that number was a near identical 236 out of the total number of murders of 820. But this year reported knife incidents have taken a turn for the worse…the British Crime Survey suggests that the number of muggers using knives increased dramatically from 24,290 to 42,020 - a rise of 73%. There were 110 serious attacks between May and June this year, 23 fatalities during the 5 weeks of the Knife Amnesty.
In total 3,511 people were convicted of carrying a knife or blade in the year 2000 compared with 5,784 in 2004! The number of children aged 12 to 14 convicted of carrying knives at school doubled between 2000 and 2004 to 170. The Youth Justice Board announced that carrying a ’bladed weapon’ was the most common offence among children excluded from school! In 2004 the British Crime Survey estimated that 60,000 children aged 11 to 16 were routinely carrying knives…it’s frightening to consider the implications of this growing trend.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that those carrying knives claim ’they do so for protection’…deaths and serious injuries are often caused by their own weapon, that has been turned on them! In an attempt to reverse this trend a Nationwide Knife Amnesty was started on the 24th May which ended on the 30th June, 2006 and netted 90,000 bladed weapons…sadly however, the incidents are still on the increase. In Essex alone knife incidents run at something in the region of six or more, per week!
Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment Act 2012
New measures intended to reduce Knife Crime: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20577149
Taken from: http://www.knifecrimes.org/experts-view.html
This is back in about 1983 though,if not earlier.
Have we got a firearms and weapons thread re Bond on here at all ?
"Did he fire six shots or only five...?!!!"
Too many times mate!
:))
Well guns go down well there anyway...
Yep....we are,and rightly so ...good luck elsewhere though.
Yeah, that is what knives do.
Yes, knife crime is/was a major problem in the UK, hence all the legislation in place to protect the general public from those who carry knives.
Or do you already have one?
I had one of those as did all my mates when we went playing in the countryside as kids (How the world has changed) the sewing kit was useful to sew up any wounds we may get ;)) I had a few catapults and various other things we made lol
I've been casually following this project on ajb, and no word there either since April. I think the project is dead in the water TBH.
I just have some training nunchucks and a wooden Katana Bokken which stay in my gym, I have a decent Camillus titanium lock knife though everyone needs a good knife for odd jobs.
Yes, one of my folding knives I use for carving and other odd jobs. I also have a pair of nunchucks that I made myself, and a short tonfa. An a pair of bokken. No real guns though (I suppose that makes me unusual as an American... ;) ).
I enjoy Katana training good for the shoulders, in my youth I lived in the country so made alot of things like weapons, as well as snares, tree houses and go carts lol back in the day computers were primitive so no mobile phones etc more of an idyllic childhood.
Bugger.
This.