[Misc] Flick Knives

[Javeaseagull]

Still got mine.It's on my desk as a fancy letter opener.

 

[schmunk]

[Previous post]

Given they're illegal to own, even in a private home, you may not wish to publicise this too much...

 

[Live by the sea]

Flick knifes aren’t predominantly bought by anyone not in a gang .

 

[Javeaseagull]

Given they're illegal to own, even in a private home, you may not wish to publicise this too much...

I'm in Spain mate. It's the wild west out here!

 

[AmexRuislip]

Are they still illegal?

Or does anything go in 21st century Britain?

The obligatory school day trip Newhaven-Dieppe usually involved some fresh faced youth buying French bangers or if you were a real rebel a flick knife.

On our trip in July 1976 a mate, who was flush, or as flush as a 12 year old can be, bought one, then returning to the UK we had an extremely animated pep talk from our teacher, who warned our school had been earmarked for a search at Newhaven (which never happened) and anyone caught with a flick knife faced 18 months in borstal, so into the Channel it went. (amazing what influence good old fashioned bullshit had back then)

I also recall for a small French port Dieppe had a lot of dirty book shops.

The Irish still use a flick hammer I believe.

 

[Justice]

I remember going to a French Market on a school trip to Etaples in year 6 which must have been about 2006-2008 ish, me and my friends all bought BB Guns and flick knives which were taken off us after one friend grassed us up. We weren't the worst though, one of the girls bought a live Rabbit because it was in a cage, and smuggled back to the hostel.

Rabbit stew that night?

 

[Justice]

First made illegal to buy, sell or carry in 1959. If you had one obtained before that it was still legal to have it at home. In 2019 it became illegal to even own them. Same goes for gravity knives, balisongs and a host of other obscure bladed items.

Yet now you can order a zombie knife and hack someone’s head off with it if that’s your thing.

 

[schmunk]

Yet now you can order a zombie knife and hack someone’s head off with it if that’s your thing.

Also specifically listed in the Offensive Weapons Act as illegal to own in the UK.

 

[Justice]

Also specifically listed in the Offensive Weapons Act as illegal to own in the UK.

 

[Baldseagull]

Flick knifes aren’t predominantly bought by anyone not in a gang .

I know a few people with one, none are gang members, and none are particularly young. I know many more that carry a knife with a knob at the heel of the folding blade that allows it to be opened one handed and quickly, my 85 year old father is one of these people, I also have one.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Just a quick reminder to check out NSC's Amazon link for all your lethal weapon purchases.

Cheers.

There you go Bozza, not all my NSC threads aren't productive

 

[Live by the sea]

You sound as if walking around with a flick knife is normal - it isn’t …

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

I’ve got a WW2 German officers bayonet that my Dad relieved him of at Monte Cassino.

 

[Live by the sea]

Yes but I’m guessing you don’t walk around with it. In your pocket !

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Butterfly knives, flick knives and knuckledusters all banned in 1959 due to the increased use by youth cultures predominately the Teddy boys.

I have several hunting knives, which were given to me as presents at Christmas whilst in America, I put them in my normal luggage and they managed to get through, I did not hide them, they are hidden safely away at home, along with until recently some bear mace, I got sent in the post from America, it's like a mini fire extinguisher !!

I sold it on a stall at Patchfest for £2

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Used to always work at the M2 Services at Farthing Corner in my school holidays. Rarely a day went by without Kent Police getting called out to attend to school coaches; French kids going home with stuff nicked from the gift shop, English kids going home with flick knives

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

School trips, I wish, I was never aloud to go, I was banned from all school trips, after an incident at West Stow involving spray paint and a pig from the farm.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Day trip to Dieppe in the seventies a couple of times with school [Longhill]
Remember buying those mini-bangers and then on the boat home the rumours flying that everyone was gonna be searched on arrival - spread by the teachers to put the shit up us, I later found out.

More memorable was one return trip giving some bird a full-on, near non-stop, snog !!

Oh boy, to be a teenager again ... no wucking furries !!

 

[BN9 BHA]

Of course they are, and I'm certain you already knew that.

End of thread (unless some other old men want to reminisce wistfully about their schooldays... ...so, another 100 or so posts to go.)

 

[Justice]

Day trip to Dieppe in the seventies a couple of times with school [Longhill]
Remember buying those mini-bangers and then on the boat home the rumours flying that everyone was gonna be searched on arrival - spread by the teachers to put the shit up us, I later found out.

More memorable was one return trip giving some bird a full-on, near non-stop, snog !!

Oh boy, to be a teenager again ... no wucking furries !!

I once had a shag in the female toilets on that ferry, the girl in question quickly dressed smiled and left me stranded in a now busy female toilet cubicle.