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Question about sais

  • 24-02-2010 10:05pm
    #1
    Kal W
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    Are they illegal to own in Ireland? I'm thinking of purchasing a pair online and I was wondering if there would be any problem with that.


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  • #2
    ColinJennings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭ColinJennings


    Under the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act 1990, it is a criminal offence to import a prescribed weapon.
    (6) The importation of a weapon to which this section applies is hereby prohibited.

    A further order specifies what weapons are prohibited. It follows the UK equivilent provisions and mostly deals with hidden weapons or weapons that are designed to be used by stealth. It also seems to have a weird fascination with weapons associated with ninja. It states:
    ( a ) a flick-knife, that is to say—

    (i) a knife which opens when hand pressure is applied to a button, spring, lever or other device in or attached to the handle, or

    (ii) a knife which has a blade which is released from the handle or sheath by the force of gravity or the application of centrifugal force and when released is locked in an open position by means of a button, spring, lever or other device;

    ( b ) a knuckleduster, that is to say—

    (i) a band of metal or other hard material worn on one or more fingers, and designed to cause injury, or

    (ii) any weapon incorporating a knuckleduster;

    ( c ) a swordstick or dagger cane, that is, a hollow walking-stick or cane containing a blade which may be used as a sword or dagger;

    ( d ) a sword umbrella, that is an umbrella containing a blade which may be used as a sword;

    ( e ) any weapon from which one or more sharp spikes protrude which is worn attached to the foot, ankle, hand or wrist (sometimes known when intended to be attached to the foot, as a footclaw and, when intended to be attached to the hand, as a handclaw);

    ( f ) the weapon sometimes known as a belt buckle knife, being a buckle which incorporates or conceals a knife;

    ( g ) the weapon sometimes known as a push dagger, being a knife the handle of which fits within a clenched fist and the blade of which protrudes from between two fingers;

    ( h ) the weapon sometimes known as a hollow kubotan, being a cylindrical container containing a number of sharp spikes;

    ( i ) the weapon sometimes known as a shuriken, shaken or death star, being a hard non-flexible plate having three or more sharp radiating points and designed to be thrown;

    ( j ) the weapon sometimes known as a balisong or butterfly knife, being a blade enclosed by its handle, which is designed to split down the middle, without the operation of a spring or other mechanical means, to reveal the blade;

    ( k ) the weapon sometimes known as a telescopic truncheon or telescopic billy, being a truncheon which extends automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring or other device in or attached to its handle;

    ( l ) the weapon sometimes known as a blowpipe or blow gun, being a hollow tube out of which hard pellets or darts are shot by the use of human breath;

    ( m ) the weapon sometimes known as a kusari gama, being a length of rope, cord, wire or chain fastened at one end to a sickle;

    ( n ) the weapon sometimes known as a kyoketsu shoge, being a length of rope, cord, wire or chain fastened at one end to a hooked knife;

    ( o ) the weapon sometimes known as a manrikigusari or kusari, being a length of rope, cord, wire or chain fastened at each end to a hard weight or hand grip;

    ( p ) the weapon sometimes known as a sap glove, being a glove into which metal or some other hard material has been inserted or to which metal or such material has been attached;


    ( q ) the broad knife known as a machete or matchet.

    To be honest unless you actually require a sai (or any other weapon that could cause offence, such as a baseball bat) for a legitimate purpose, you are asking for trouble. If you have a baseball bat in your car driving to and from training, you must prove that you had it for a legal purpose. I can only assume that proving you had a weapon from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

    Source: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1990/en/act/pub/0012/sec0012.html#zza12y1990s12 http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1991/en/si/0066.html


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