Ridiculous Weapon Laws From Ireland

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I'm not sure about the rest of the weapons but any of the ones that are banned due to being "automatic" are fairly easy to explain (At least from an American PoV with minimal experience on the matter). It's simply a matter of "concealment". A 'threat' should be easily and readily identifiable (i.e. you can't tell that the cane is also a sword, etc)

You've never even SEEN a slash hook?! Where the hell do you live?
I saw one just the other day when I was out driving, a bloke was carrying it walking down the street.
It was a real fancy one too. I said out loud "Ooh! Nice slash hook, bud".

The umbrella knife sounds like a weapon in a James Bond film, or The Avengers show from 50's/60's.

The claw weapons sounds like weapons a Ninja would have.

You can have telescopic batton, but yet people would beating the shite out of each other with axe handles.

Overall the boys and girls who drew up the list had fertile imaginations 😂

Slash hook looks like what might often be called a billhook.

Basically couldn't be banned because no politician wants to upset farmers. Used in a lot of crimes because no matter what you ban, people will simply hurt each other with whatever you haven't banned.

And all weapons are just rocks and sticks with increasing degrees of refinement and specificity of purpose: poke or bash, even bullets and bombs are still generally just doing the same thing.

But at least you know that your criminals can't possibly have guns, as they are illegal.

Caneswords have been banned in even America for a very long time, longer than the 90s. They originated in the Victorian era and have been banned for almost as long because it’s a concealed weapon. And you absolutely will get arrested by TSA if you try to bring it on a plane.

They saw Highlander to many times. Great sound track thou .

The weapon bans do seem kinda excessive. However when also considering that Ireland has a reputation for heavy drinking…

Not saying drinking equals violence. Although if one drunk person asked another drunk person "wanna have a ninja fight?"and proceeded to pull out actual Japanese weapons the results would be disastrous.

this is such a coincidence you own same huion canvas drawing tablet and same casio midi keyboard lol lol lol

Am awful lot of these seem to just be things that it sounds like the politicians saw a bad guy use it in a movie once and now they think it's inherently evil.

It's been known in the West for over a century and a half that the best way to make a shuriken lethal is to dip the sharpest edges in some kind of poison. I read in the novel THE LIST OF SEVEN by Mark Frost (which storyline borrows heavily from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books) that the character Jack Sparks tells "Dr John Watson" that they're virtually useless otherwise.

How am i supposed to become a greaser in ireland now?! I have to stay a goodie two-shoes?

A lot of these knife bans just come from clueless politicians who take hollywood movies way too seriously. All types of knives got decriminalized in my jurisdiction a few years ago and now the only legal differentiation is the length. You don’t see anyone being attacked with exotic knives, they’re just collected by enthusiasts

the "spirit of the law" is not supposed to address whatever is happening when the law is written. with this argument, you get a law from 1990. something new happens in 1991 you get a new law. and so on and so forth. you try to address past and future cases and concepts (as possible), so you don't have to edit new laws all the time. this is why you have the same law for 25 years
my former father-in-law was a prosecutor (we're from brazil) and when he was younger he was working deep in the farmlands. there was a serial killer, grapista, robber etc the police was having a hard time catching, a well known one (this was many decades ago, i think in the 80s). one day this guy try to attack a sister of some sugar cane workers, they went to her rescue and attacked him with…. slash hooks (used to cut sugar cane). the "lid" of his head was cut out in a single swoop while the guy was holding their sister down. they were acquitted btw (of course)

I actually have an umbrella sword.

4:20 The Kingsmen ahh

Bras knuckles are illegal here in Florida too, however they're easily sold everywhere including some Gas stations as " paper weights"

Following a Triad battle in Dublin's Abbey St in the early 80;s , the crazy arsenal of Martial arts weapons were banned.

You will notice that most weapons banned are the ones that are glamorized in movies and/or have cool sounding names like the "street sweeper" shotgun that was really just a general purpose police/home/hunting weapon that was arbitrarily classed as an "assault weapon"

A ninja problem is unrealistic, but a wannabe ninja problem is quite plausible.

In the US l, you can have them. You just can't sell them in certain states. Most big cities usually have strict weapon laws.