Now don't laugh at this because it's not funny.
Yes certain knives are banned outright, any double edged knife and some nasty combat type ones(don't know which). Those swiss army knife credit card tools are banned.
In NSW it is ILLEGAL to carry a knife in public unless it is for your work, or you have a reasonable excuse, e.g going fishing.
Carrying a swiss army knife is illegal, any knife no matter what it is. So if you come to NSW don't carry your pocket knife or you will be fined. I think about $500 Aus and repeat offenders jailed, I think. If a police officer wants to search you for a knife you have to agree to a search or be arrested. It's up to them to decide why to search you.
This all happened because a police officer was stabbed and killed. His wife went on tv saying knives should be banned, the media gets behind it and it happens. There is also problems in Sydney in different areas with ethnic gangs carrying knives and causing problems. The Shooters Party MLC John Tingle suggested they restrict the ban to those streets which have a problem, which is a perfectly sane idea because some of those places are pretty dangerous. No that was too sensible.
So you have the ridiculous case of a policewoman going into a country pub and confiscating the knives the farmers carried on their belts. I don't think anyone coul make something up that is so stupid.
you have to be over 16 to buy a knife, they do allow under 16 year olds to buy plastic knives though.
I don't know what they will ban next, maybe cricket bats ?
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