Starrman's Blog

The London government said it would ban the sale of samurai swords because the weapons had been used in a number of serious, high profile attacks. The Home Office said the swords would be added to the Offensive Weapons Order beginning April of next year, meaning they could not be imported, sold or hired(?). Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker said, "In the wrong hands, samurai swords are dangerous weapons, we recognize it is the cheap, easily available samurai swords which are being used in crime and not the genuine more expensive samurai swords which are of interest to collectors and martial arts enthusiasts." However collectors of genuine Japanese swords and those used by martial arts enthusiasts would be exempt from the ban.

Sounds like they may have a proliferation of “Saturday Night Special Swords”!! Sounds to me like it is time to have a no questions asked sword buy back program!!

In 1999, Eden Strang seriously wounded 11 people when he went on the rampage with a samurai sword at a Roman Catholic Church near his home.

In 2000, Robert Ashman murdered a Liberal Democrat councilor at the offices of Cheltenham MP Nigel Jones, who was also seriously hurt in the attack.

So from 1999 through 2007 12 people were wounded and 1 was killed using a samurai sword. Using that logic cars, trains, busses, and God knows what else, should be banned also. Once again the elite British intelligence amazes and astounds me.