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Importation of kukri - legal ?

  • 13-09-2011 6:57pm
    #1
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,285 ✭✭✭


    Would it be illegal to import or possess here, a kukri (a Nepalese/Gurkha dagger/machete) ? Not for use in a public place, obviously. My late father owned one, and I wondered if I'd have any problems bringing it here from the UK.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukri


Comments

  • #2
    golden virginia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭golden virginia


    i reckon you wont be charged, but it wouldn't really be legal. I know people who have tried to bring such things on an aeroplane - its confiscated and your interrogated. Try the ferry for such importations.


  • #3
    dermot_sheehan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭dermot_sheehan


    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1991/en/si/0066.html


  • #4
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,285 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Thanks. That does mention machetes, but I don't think a kukri is one. The blade length is about 9", I'd say a typical machete would be twice that.


  • #5
    source
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭source


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Thanks. That does mention machetes, but I don't think a kukri is one. The blade length is about 9", I'd say a typical machete would be twice that.


    The Kukri is a type of a machete, used by the Nepalese and the the Gurkha regiments.

    Size and type doesn't come into it, If the legislation says swords are illegal to possess, and I had a scimitar, I wouldn't get far on the argument that it isn't a sword, it is a scimitar, it's still an illegal weapon semantics aside.

    Basically a kukri is a machete and comes under the meaning of machete/machet in the Act quoted.


  • #6
    dipti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭dipti


    I dont think so that you will face any problem carrying a gurkha kukri with you until and unless you do some blunder. I know these are bit bigger in size to carry anywhere but serves you lots of other advantages.


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  • #7
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    dipti wrote: »
    I dont think so that you will face any problem carrying a gurkha kukri with you until and unless you do some blunder. I know these are bit bigger in size to carry anywhere but serves you lots of other advantages.

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  • #8
    Arbiter of Good Taste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,200 ✭✭✭Arbiter of Good Taste


    About 15 years ago I brought two swords disguised as walking sticks in my luggage from a trip to Zimbabwe. When I think of the stupidity of doing that....


  • #9
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    Arbiter of Good Taste wrote: »
    About 15 years ago I brought two swords disguised as walking sticks in my luggage from a trip to Zimbabwe. When I think of the stupidity of doing that....

    Roughly the same time as the OP then :P


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