15/02/2024
In my 25 years running Blades I've amassed a vast knowledge of the law with respect to weaponry and have helped so many companies and individuals faced with police action and I want to share with you that in the last couple of years I have never experienced the onslaught of outrageous misinterpretations of the law that the police are currently basing charges on.
Today one of our competitors has been charged with marketing a knife as 'indicating its suitable for combat' in breach of the marketing of knives act 97.
There's no mention in the advert that the item is functional or any violent images, but the charge is based on the fact that it is sold as a replica of the Jason Voorhees Machete, and they claim as such 'because of the way it is used in the film, any reasonable person would therefore assume the item was capable of causing injury or death and would be suitable for use in combat or for violence'
You could apply that sentence to any movie/game weapon replica sold as a collectible item - which they all are, someone needs to tell these guys
ITS PRETEND !!!!!!!! ITS FKING PRETEND,
NO-ONE thinks a movie replica is real just because it was in a movie, my god, people aren't emailing asking why their Iron Man Arc reactor replicas aren't actually powering their homes, that they cant get their lightsabres to cut through anything . . .
People don't watch movies thinking Sylvester Stallone is some kind of a real life mass murderer, no-ones ever said to me, I really enjoyed the film but I feel sorry for the families of all those actors who died on screen'
Violence in movies is not real violence, we all know it's FKING PRETEND, the violence the laws refer is is actual real violence, applying a logic that they are the same is just beyond crazy
Someone needs to stand up for collectors of Movie Replicas and us retailers or there won't be anyone left standing soon.
