Multi-tool

[Preacher]

(15 February 2012, 00:23)uks Wrote: [quote='Carnebwen' pid='7565' dateline='1329258760']
Been wanting to get one for a while. I dont need it for a particular reason. But the fact that they typically have blades that makes them non UK carry legal means id be unlikely to carry one.

Id use it for the usual things, cleaning my nails. Cutting fruit, opening boxes or whatever.

I've been racking my brains about your name. The lost Cornish village.


The only bladed instruments specifically prohibited under UK law are those which open under stored energy, or by gravity upon the operation of a button, or lever. (flick knives and butterfly knives)

The classification of "offensive weapon" applies to the "intent" rather than the object.

A 17 year old on an urban street, carrying a pen-knife could be prosecuted if he waved it about. But a man who has a gillie kettle and the makings of a cuppa in his car can quite legally carry ANY bladed instrument (including a machete) intended for the specific purpose of prepping wood for his cup of tea if he intends to stop on the way home and brew up at the roadside.... (locking knives are classified as fixed bladed knives under the relevant act).

If you do carry a blade for any "reasonable" purpose, you should keep it out of sight if possible and if you need to leave your vehicle at any time, you should carry the item with you, or conceal it from public view.