UK Ninja Sword Ban beginnt, als 1.000 Waffen beim Vorgehen der Messerkriminalität aufgegeben werden
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-ninja-sword-ban-begins-1000-weapons-surrendered-knife-crime-crackdown-2025-08-01/
Von F0urLeafCl0ver
UK Ninja Sword Ban beginnt, als 1.000 Waffen beim Vorgehen der Messerkriminalität aufgegeben werden
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-ninja-sword-ban-begins-1000-weapons-surrendered-knife-crime-crackdown-2025-08-01/
Von F0urLeafCl0ver
44 Kommentare
Criminals will just use another weapon.
Criminals don’t follow the law.
Saying Ninja sword is such a lovely brand of British cringe.
Yeah let’s blame inanimate objects, it’s like some weird sort of scape coating, never the individual, the religion or the culture. Tools are useful, other people not so much.
Why stick a certain name to a certain type of sword? Just say swords are fucking banned.
I don’t see many of them. The risk of being stabbed is higher than a sword attack.
Average of 3 gun crimes per month just in London alone, tell me how banning guns stopped gun crime
261 deaths in uk alone last year with just knifes, tell me how banning knifes will stop this
Don’t police it that’s to expensive, it just ban it, placate the moaners, and hide the statistics behind an account where people are to lazy to make an account and look up.
Seems arbitrary. „ninja sword“ with 17 inch blade is banned but a viking sword with a 24 inch blade isn’t?
This tickles me immensely as outside of a 7 year olds play set, „ninja swords“ aren’t technically a thing.
I will walk around in a suit of full plate armour then I will feel safe
First they came for the zombie knives, then they came for the ninja swords….
It’s almost like our politicians aren’t willing or able to solve a very serious problem
Classic case of the Politician’s Syllogism:
1. Something must be done
2. This is something
3. Therefore, this must be done
It ticks a box, looks tough on crime and makes for a solid headline but whether it actually tackles the root of the problem is another story.. Feels more like a PR win than a real fix..
Had my flat searched and the rest of the block 2 years ago because a neighbour was getting restricted drugs delivered by post. In the search they saw my very blunt 3 miniature Kanata display and said they’d have to take it, I fully understand they’re thinking taking a 7“ novelty yet leaving my very shape 20″ + kitchen knifes
The UK fears ninjas, but I’ve never seen a ninja in the UK…. because they are so silent and stealthy.
Watch how this, along with every knife ban before it, does absolutely nothing. Sick of this shit.
isnt the most common type of knife used in stabbing a kitchen knife?
Let’s just do what the yanks do. They carry around assault rifles, and if the police stop then they just say „it’s for hunting.“
So when I carry my pig iron and plastic dragon hilted sword around, they can’t stop me because it’s for carving at a barbeque, or buttering very large slices of toast.
I’m a fencer and have been for eight years.
Royal Mail and Parcelforce banned bladed items from being posted in April last year, which included tipped and edge-safe fencing blades, anything for historical re-enactment too if you’re into that. I can’t buy weapons for my own sport through these couriers anymore.
I’d choose a great deal of legal mailable objects over my epee if I intended to harm someone.
I would usually comment on the inability of knife laws to make any dent on what is already criminal activity, but one primary impact of sweeping legislation is always to marginalise a subset of regular people. If laws of this kind will not benefit anybody by keeping them from being attacked with a ninja sword, the only thing draconian policies like these do is impact normal people owning legal objects for their own enjoyment or recreation.
Rather than introducing stupid new laws (internet, knives etc) they should just enforce the ones we already have, as well as encourage parents to actually parent their kids.
Stupid laws and bans to make it look like they’re trying to do something, but never solve real actual problems
The UK banning something that humans have had for over 5000 years is quite hilarious to me… So in America they recognise the right to bear arms (with its own issues but whatever you say its right for them to be able to keep them for self-defense) and can keep a f*cking arsenal as long as they have a licence. But in the UK, we make swords illegal… Jesus christ we are ripe for invasion, no chance against anyone wielding a flick knife because we’re simply not allowed to have them.
My wall decoration became illegal inside as well as outside, so I had to get rid of it.
Presumably it is one of those 1000 dangerous weapons handed in. 😂
Oh no, an unenforceable ban?! Best stop being a criminal.
So what classes as a ninja sword? Do I have to surrender my replica katanas?
The guidance is so vague
Breaking news: study shows none of the people that handed them in have ever used it as a weapon, are law obiding citizens and they have now lost items of sentimental value.
Criminals answering the survey have simply stated that there is „more than one way to skin a cat“.
In other news, starmer has announced a crackdoen on spoons in the latest attempt to tackle crime.
>We have a lot of knife crime
>Violent crime is worse in places with a lack of infrastructure, jobs, healthcare &c
>Confiscate all ninja swords
Makes sense
I dont think criminals are gonna whip out the fuckin longsword, theyd bring a knife.
They’re just taking stuff away from the nerds
I’m sure criminals will be queuing up at police stations to hand over their Katanas…
After all! They have been listening to the already existing laws which state that carrying *any* blade over 3 inches in public is illegal.
Oh wait…
I own a small collection of knives including multiple Japanese swords and I’m not giving them up. Besides, I feel like these laws are really just made for big cities and everyone else gets caught up in them incidentally. My town doesn’t have a knife crime issue. There would be no reason for any police to care about what I own.
That said, there are a lot of asterisks in this law that effectively make my knives legal.
I own 2 katanas.
The fuck is a ninja sword?
I’m a member of a kenjutsu club.
This law isn’t clear enough.
Solving wealth inequality would tank the crime rate, but why not just find more stuff to ban instead?
This just doesn’t make any sense. A ninja is just as deadly with any number of improvised weapons made from common items or even their bare hands.
What happens if you are on your way to the amnesty bin at Notting Hill with your zombie knife and get pulled by the police?
So my blunt katana set that does nothing but hang on my wall and make me dust every now and again are now illegal.
I mean yes I could swing them at someone but at most I’d give them a nasty bruise as they couldn’t cut melted butter..
Seems like a headline making policy rather than a actual useful policy to me
It’s almost like they are trying to disarm the population as a whole. This „law“ honestly shows just how out of touch the toffs at the top are
So what I can’t see in either the article or any of the comments I’ve read so far is:
What’s the actual definition of a fucking „Ninja Sword“?
How is it different to the previous ban on „Samurai“ swords? The one that banned curved blades and made the decorative sets made popular with teenage boys after Kill Bill released illegal, while at the same time making an exception for *real* historic swords that actually had an edge.
At least that one was recently amended to permit them if they’re blunt.
Compete nonsense. The vast majority of knife crime is committed with kitchen knives they sell in supermarkets. Or heck – are already in the perp’s home.
Weren’t they also talking about banning points on knives or something? I look forward to butchering a large bit of meat for the bbq with that
Doesn’t the UK have an extremely low rate of violent crime? It seems to be significantly lower than Canada’s for example. What’s with the hysterical panic over knife crime?
Cracking down on knives instead of the criminals. Surely this will solve the problem.
For all those saying its already illegal to walk around the street with these swords (without good reason), you are correct.
However this law is the banning of buying and selling of these weapons. You are still allowed to own them.
The weapons surrendered mentioned in the headline are from a completely separate amnesty on knives.
All this is in the article.
Keep banning different types of knives won’t solve knife crime. You need the use of zero tolerance policing on public knife carrying, and educating young people about the true dangers of it, and getting into gangs.
Oh no, 12 year old Timmy can’t use a „ninja sword“ now…guess he won’t be able to go out with his balaclava and man purse with a full matching tracksuit in 20 degree weather :(( oh wait, mums kitchen knives. PERFECT. I’ll use that instead.
It’s all ridiculous, keep making things illegal until the illegal stabbings stop. Police can already confiscate a legal to carry knife if you do not have a good reason to be carrying it or they have reason to believe a person has the intention of using it as a weapon. I almost had my chef knives confiscated on my way to a new job years ago and was interrogated on the roadside for 15 minutes making me late for work. I have my suspicions that the 1000 people surrendering their knives are not the ones which would ever be likely to ever use it as a weapon. They could ban all knifes entirely and people would either make their own or sharpen a stick and stab people with that instead.
How do laws keep passing which 90% of the population think are ridiculous and/or downright harmful?
More people should be asking this question.
Yet amusingly just today I could have purchased a short or long bow and some arrows with std tips but then immediately purchased extra sharp ones and walked back to the car that’s a mile away
Or gone on a spree and hit countless people.
My 7 year old walked out with a pack of metal tipped practice arrows though
A lot requires general people to just not be complete dickheads
Maybe the reduction overall will slow it down but where does it stop ? Kitchen knives banned then what grinders and butter knives