Quote Originally Posted by LX_Emergency View Post
Really? Only if they had reason to assume you would use it as a weapon or any knife? I know of quite a few belgians that doe carry knives and never seem to have any problems with the local law.
that means 1 of the following:

- they were never searched or had to explain the knife to a police officer.
- they have a valid reason for the knife like going hunting, or being a groundskeeper (boswachter) or taking it to a flea market, etc.
- the knife is not deemed a weapon (such as a swiss army knife).

I strongly suspect that the only reason they didn't get into trouble was that noone simply knew.
Realistically, I could carry a handgun and I would not get into trouble either. As long as the police never knew, I wouldn't have any problems.
And given that police searches are very rare here, that could be my entire life.

However, as soon as I used it and the police became involved, the story would be quite different.