Weapons Galore: Is this gonna do anything to your business?
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Weapons Galore: Is this gonna do anything to your business?
One of my shootin' buddies sent me this. Any truth to it?
(BTW: There are folks over there that truly believe in the FORCE and have made it a sort of religion)--
> Jedi denounce UK sabre ban plan
> Duel of the fates
> By Tony Smith &#8594; More by this author
> Published Monday 5th March 2007 16:51 GMT
>
>
> The UK's Jedi community today expressed concerns that government
> plans to ban Samurai swords could hinder their freedom to wield
> lightsabres in public.
>
> The UK's Home Office today issued a consultation paper ahead of
> legislation intended to ban Samurai blades by the end of the year.
> In a bid to "protect the public", replica Samurai swords will
> become illegal to import, sell and hire in Britain.
>
> Breaching the new rules could mean six months in prison, and a
> £5,000 fine. Anyone carrying such a weapon in public could faces up
> to four years in prison, the consultation paper suggests.
>
> The paper notes that genuine Samurai swords would not attract the
> same penalties, and there are also exemptions for other specific
> martial arts weapons. "We recognise it is the cheap, easily
> available Samurai swords which are being used in crime and not the
> genuine, more expensive samurai swords which are of interest to
> collectors and martial art enthusiasts," Home Office Minister
> Vernon Coaker. "As such as we are putting forward exemptions for
> these groups."
>
> The key word here is 'replica'. No one has yet built a working
> lightsabre, leaving the UK's would-be Obi-Wans inevitably having to
> wield plastic, flick-of-the-wrist-to-extend weapons in duels with
> Sith Lords, remotes and, occasionally, each other.
>
> But Jedi fear that the Samurai ban would leave them exposed to
> future legislation against other forms of imitation weaponry that
> would, Jedi Temple (Neasden) spokesman Indi-Anna Jones warned today.
>
> "The Samurai sword ban is only the first step toward compulsory
> lightsabre confiscations," he said. "Everyone knows George Lucas
> based his series on the Japanese film The Seven Samurai - the Jedi
> will be next."
>
> However, not all the 390,000 British Jedi fear* the government's
> reforms.
>
> "The propsals' suggested exemptions for groups such as the British
> Kendo Association should give us a loophole," claimed UK Jedi Bus-
> Qyu Simpson. "These exemptions cover swords made in Japan before
> the existing licensing regime came into force in 1953 or those made
> by licensed Japanese swordsmiths since that time.
>
> "Everyone knows Jedi-hood is an 'ancient religion', founded long
> ago in a galaxy far, far away, so it should be safe from this
> legislation," he said. ®
>
> *Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering...
(BTW: There are folks over there that truly believe in the FORCE and have made it a sort of religion)--
> Jedi denounce UK sabre ban plan
> Duel of the fates
> By Tony Smith &#8594; More by this author
> Published Monday 5th March 2007 16:51 GMT
>
>
> The UK's Jedi community today expressed concerns that government
> plans to ban Samurai swords could hinder their freedom to wield
> lightsabres in public.
>
> The UK's Home Office today issued a consultation paper ahead of
> legislation intended to ban Samurai blades by the end of the year.
> In a bid to "protect the public", replica Samurai swords will
> become illegal to import, sell and hire in Britain.
>
> Breaching the new rules could mean six months in prison, and a
> £5,000 fine. Anyone carrying such a weapon in public could faces up
> to four years in prison, the consultation paper suggests.
>
> The paper notes that genuine Samurai swords would not attract the
> same penalties, and there are also exemptions for other specific
> martial arts weapons. "We recognise it is the cheap, easily
> available Samurai swords which are being used in crime and not the
> genuine, more expensive samurai swords which are of interest to
> collectors and martial art enthusiasts," Home Office Minister
> Vernon Coaker. "As such as we are putting forward exemptions for
> these groups."
>
> The key word here is 'replica'. No one has yet built a working
> lightsabre, leaving the UK's would-be Obi-Wans inevitably having to
> wield plastic, flick-of-the-wrist-to-extend weapons in duels with
> Sith Lords, remotes and, occasionally, each other.
>
> But Jedi fear that the Samurai ban would leave them exposed to
> future legislation against other forms of imitation weaponry that
> would, Jedi Temple (Neasden) spokesman Indi-Anna Jones warned today.
>
> "The Samurai sword ban is only the first step toward compulsory
> lightsabre confiscations," he said. "Everyone knows George Lucas
> based his series on the Japanese film The Seven Samurai - the Jedi
> will be next."
>
> However, not all the 390,000 British Jedi fear* the government's
> reforms.
>
> "The propsals' suggested exemptions for groups such as the British
> Kendo Association should give us a loophole," claimed UK Jedi Bus-
> Qyu Simpson. "These exemptions cover swords made in Japan before
> the existing licensing regime came into force in 1953 or those made
> by licensed Japanese swordsmiths since that time.
>
> "Everyone knows Jedi-hood is an 'ancient religion', founded long
> ago in a galaxy far, far away, so it should be safe from this
> legislation," he said. ®
>
> *Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering...
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RE: Weapons Galore: Is this gonna do anything to your business?
It looks like it is the case...cant see how they are going to put a ban on swords or blades....but they are working there way towards to it....It's a crazy place the UK, these poltications just want to make headlines so that they can win the votes, and get their fat pay chqs! Keep taking away peoples libertys!
At least in the US, you get a choice, as much as I love England, it seems to becoming a big brother state..
Makes me crazy, and yep it will affect business, but luckily we have other things going besides just running websites...and u can stop calling me weaponsgalore, Sam will do fine
At least in the US, you get a choice, as much as I love England, it seems to becoming a big brother state..
Makes me crazy, and yep it will affect business, but luckily we have other things going besides just running websites...and u can stop calling me weaponsgalore, Sam will do fine
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RE: Weapons Galore: Is this gonna do anything to your business?
ORIGINAL: weaponsgalore
It looks like it is the case...cant see how they are going to put a ban on swords or blades....but they are working there way towards to it....It's a crazy place the UK, these poltications just want to make headlines so that they can win the votes, and get their fat pay chqs! Keep taking away peoples libertys!
At least in the US, you get a choice, as much as I love England, it seems to becoming a big brother state..
Makes me crazy, and yep it will affect business, but luckily we have other things going besides just running websites...and u can stop calling me weaponsgalore, Sam will do fine
It looks like it is the case...cant see how they are going to put a ban on swords or blades....but they are working there way towards to it....It's a crazy place the UK, these poltications just want to make headlines so that they can win the votes, and get their fat pay chqs! Keep taking away peoples libertys!
At least in the US, you get a choice, as much as I love England, it seems to becoming a big brother state..
Makes me crazy, and yep it will affect business, but luckily we have other things going besides just running websites...and u can stop calling me weaponsgalore, Sam will do fine
As for me, Mark is what my mom called me…amongst other things-----
Regarding the sword thing, I’d love to see the statistics on criminal activity
and bodily injury involving swords and edged weapons in general. I guess
I could see muggings and such done at knife point, but with a sword?
Glad to see you have other avenues than this one web site. For some reason,
I thought Weapons Galore was your business. Do I understand correctly,
that your main business is web site design and admin?
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RE: Weapons Galore: Is this gonna do anything to your business?
ORIGINAL: HummBob
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I wanna be a Jedi!!
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RE: Weapons Galore: Is this gonna do anything to your business?
ORIGINAL: Gunner_45
Ok…then Sam it is………Nice to meet ya brother….
As for me, Mark is what my mom called me…amongst other things-----
Regarding the sword thing, I’d love to see the statistics on criminal activity
and bodily injury involving swords and edged weapons in general. I guess
I could see muggings and such done at knife point, but with a sword?
Glad to see you have other avenues than this one web site. For some reason,
I thought Weapons Galore was your business. Do I understand correctly,
that your main business is web site design and admin?
ORIGINAL: weaponsgalore
It looks like it is the case...cant see how they are going to put a ban on swords or blades....but they are working there way towards to it....It's a crazy place the UK, these poltications just want to make headlines so that they can win the votes, and get their fat pay chqs! Keep taking away peoples libertys!
At least in the US, you get a choice, as much as I love England, it seems to becoming a big brother state..
Makes me crazy, and yep it will affect business, but luckily we have other things going besides just running websites...and u can stop calling me weaponsgalore, Sam will do fine
It looks like it is the case...cant see how they are going to put a ban on swords or blades....but they are working there way towards to it....It's a crazy place the UK, these poltications just want to make headlines so that they can win the votes, and get their fat pay chqs! Keep taking away peoples libertys!
At least in the US, you get a choice, as much as I love England, it seems to becoming a big brother state..
Makes me crazy, and yep it will affect business, but luckily we have other things going besides just running websites...and u can stop calling me weaponsgalore, Sam will do fine
As for me, Mark is what my mom called me…amongst other things-----
Regarding the sword thing, I’d love to see the statistics on criminal activity
and bodily injury involving swords and edged weapons in general. I guess
I could see muggings and such done at knife point, but with a sword?
Glad to see you have other avenues than this one web site. For some reason,
I thought Weapons Galore was your business. Do I understand correctly,
that your main business is web site design and admin?
Dont want to get too much into the business aspect on a public forum, but of course connected to weaponsglaore.com..
Have a few new projects in the pipeline...as and when they are ready will let you know....Most muggins are done with knives,basically how do u ban blades????
But you know should know what politics are like, anything to win votes....
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