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Banning Other Weapons
beorn080:
The bo staff I use is a bit more then a glorified broom handle. Its wood with a texture paint to provide grip and is tapered at both ends to provide speed. My GF's bo, on the other hand, is a 1 inch thick piece of solid oak 6 foot long that could smash a small car.
I don't know how skilled you are with them, but I have a small collection for training purposes and I purchased tonfa, nunchaku, metal and wood, sai, kama, and katana, and all of them are lethal out of the box, as it were. None of the blunt weapons are padded, and the katana is still tapered but not sharp, which is about like getting hit with a blunt ax, and the kama have a pretty good point on the end of the blade.
Arkose:
--- Quote from: Oksbad on March 26, 2009, 12:29:47 pm ---Don't them brits have bans on katanas or scimitars or something?
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The UK has been in something of a knife panic the past few years, as a result of gang violence and a few highly publicized deaths. As a result, there are rather extreme restrictions on who can use knives, what kinds of knives you may own, what can be shown in video games, what you can upload to Youtube (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/21/0010209), and so forth. There are still groups pushing for even more restrictions and regulations, like high taxes on violent video games (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/11/176207), and the media generally loves feeding the hysteria.
Ciarog:
--- Quote from: EuchreJack on March 27, 2009, 05:10:40 pm ---Best as I can tell, the difference between martial arts items (melee weapons) and guns is that martial arts items usually aren't lethal weapons when sold.
Swords, axes, katanas, etc. need sharpening.
Blunt weapons have padding that needs to be removed.
So, as long as these martial arts items aren't prepared as weapons, they aren't lethal weapons, and can be sold normally.
Cause of this, it's easier to buy a sword than a knife, because the knife is already sharp!
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I'm really not a connoisseur of swords, but most of the swords I see at flea markets are quite sharp.
--- Quote ---Of course, I've heard gun nuts argue that "next, they'll outlaw slingshots". So, it might be a mite funny to outlaw these items at elite liberal status!
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Allready illegal in New Jersey.
Didn't the Spanish Republicans use slings as improvised grenade launchers?
--- Quote ---Coincidentally, a bo staff is a glorified broomhandle. Wooden ones at least.
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Glorified pickaxe handle, then?
Ciarog:
--- Quote from: Arkose on March 28, 2009, 12:14:21 am ---The UK has been in something of a knife panic the past few years, as a result of gang violence and a few highly publicized deaths. As a result, there are rather extreme restrictions on who can use knives, what kinds of knives you may own, what can be shown in video games, what you can upload to Youtube (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/21/0010209), and so forth. There are still groups pushing for even more restrictions and regulations, like high taxes on violent video games (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/11/176207), and the media generally loves feeding the hysteria.
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BB prod pax for innerpartymembers and proles. Prolefeed need rectify goodthink plusfast.
Neonivek:
A L+ society would probably consider using ANY implimentation to enhance your own strength (a soup can for example) as a deadly weapon.
Goodness L+ schools must be a nightmare!!! Though it really depends if those crazy school laws are Liberal or Conservative or neither. "Those Shoe laces could be a deadly weapon! your expelled!"
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