The vast majority of knives used by criminals are they type you take out of your kitchen drawer at home and yet ebay UK will stop you trying to sell or buy any knife legal and will stop you buying off ebay USA sites too which means we have to use non ebay UK knife providers who lets say...are not cheap lol.
In very basic terms you can carry a 3" blade or less knife, fixed or folding (but not locking) so long as you have 'good cause'
Cricket bat...in a bag with your 'whites' and pads on the way to a ground to play you'd be OK, walk round a shopping mall/centre and you'll get stopped I would guess.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...olicy.html
A senior Police spokesman(s) said "Police chiefs insist there is no “shoot to kill” policy within British policing but accept that headshots are likely to “prove fatal” " wow, no crap Einstein.
The problem with these attacks is that unless the intelligence services get the plan first we have to wait until it kicks off which often means innocent people dying before the head shot