Thread: imports??

didnt know that about AKC. i got my membership for swords but now they changed everything so im not going to renew. i got a membership with some historical edge or weapons guild, cant remember its name.

The AKC voluntarily had some of the exemptions for their membership revoked, due to an increasing incidence of people joining for all the wrong reasons with regards to double edged and sword bladeware. I think it was a legal time bomb that was best defused early, to the detriment of the majority of honest members in Victoria, but the good of the majority of honest members nationwide.
The problem lies with Victorian law being so draconian with regards to edgeware, and the fact that those with criminal intent will find a way to flout those very same laws in the faces of the honest folk.
Keep in mind that they're only a couple people running the whole show and they work their ar$es off to protect a few thousand people, most of whom are only voices over the phone. Personally my hat goes off to them and for everything they are striving to achieve.

Come live in Queensland, we're heading the same way as Victoria, but we're not there yet.


Mick

In the ACT where I am currently living swords are still not a prohibited item. There is a very good chance that I am moving to Melbourne shortly so I went to renew my AKC membership only to find that it has expired for too long and they will not put me back on the books.

I'm not sure what my options are now, except keeping my swords illegally. I'm definitely not getting rid of all of them.

Legion, don't get rid of any of them. Talk to someone in weapons branch of the cop shop to see what options they offer. It may simply be obtaining an M class licence(Martial Arts weapons). Or having a secured storage...I can't say things like, "if the options are all cr@p, just don't tell them what you have when you move there!" Because that would be really bad advice etc, blah blah blah. Do what you need to do, to stay within the law, without giving up what is rightfully yours to own.

Good luck with it mate, Personally I would be a criminal if I moved there...So needless to say I won't move there.


Mick

legion before the knife i wanted was imported i was going to get one from new zealand where they're made i could get a weapons license and own anything can't remember how much it is think it's 3 years at a time i found this out from the fire arms officer and think you do the license through them i didn't bother as it was only one knife and didn't need the extra cost on top of my gun license but months later they became available i thought i said in one of my posts that i got one from the local gun shop and i was trying to point out how stupid these laws are because a banned knife is now legal and sold everywhere because there was no reason to ban it in the first place

Mick i will be trying to make a knife like it one day soon i even found out what steel they use i'm in the process of getting materials for a forge having trouble getting coating for the inside to stop gas erosion of my bricks on top of putting handles on blanks and refurbishing some old knives and now razors aswell as hunting fishing working on the rangey and a million other things but i have made a couple good knives out of files and i'm working on some leaf springs at the moment trying to make a knife and fork set and i will definitely try making a razor out it too i'll get around to the house work one day

check out the workshop section of the forum there should be a couple of threads on building a forge.

I don't know if any of you Gents are current members of the AKC (too late now if you aren't, as it is to be no more), but the latest, and sadly, last KA magazine has much to say on folding knife imports. The guts of the story being that customs try a "flick trick" to try and open any folder one handed. The test involves grasping the handle firmly, flicking the wrist down and then snapping it back up again. The first motion is designed to move the blade down from the handle and the second brings the blade up to the open position. If the knife is able to be opened in this way, it is considered a 'Flick' knife and is confiscated. If the knife doesn't pass the "flick trick" the first time around, that's fine, the customs mob are to apply the test "vigourously". So they will try it over and over again and it only has to open the knife once for the whole batch to be confiscated.
Of course anyone who has brought the knife in via online purchase or whatever is then apt to face charges. Customs are trying to get this standard in as Federal law with "harmonisation" of the law across all states and territorys of Australia.
Personally I say bring in Tasmania's knife laws to the rest of Australia, as they are the only ones with common sense.


Mick

P.S If you do get the KA Mag, that's my story on my razor use on page 32 .

Mick is it just the collectors club that's closing? as i buy blanks and rivets etc through the AKC site i'm wondering if that's still going to be possible hope so

Yes, just the club side of the show. The import side is Matrose agencies, and that will still be going strong from what I've gathered.


Mick