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Right, let's settle this matter - a very quick search revealed an interesting
site (http://members.aol.com/knivesuk/law.htm) which suggests it was indeed
in 1959 that flick-knives were banned, largely as a result of the kind of
kneejerk moral panic with which shooters are so familiar. The 1959
Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act is the relevant bit of wisdom. It might
be interesting - but certainly not very surprising to CS subscribers - to
investigate the frequency of UK knife attacks in 1959 compared with today. I
mean, one would expect to find that assaults by knife-wielding criminals were
virtually unheard of, since the deadly flick-knives were banned forty years
ago... And I haven't seen a Teddy Boy for yonks, either. Thank God for our
legislators, I say. God bless 'em.
Anthony Harrison
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Okay, so after 40 years Strathclyde Police are still seizing them!
Steve.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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