Talk:Zombie knife

Northern Ireland
I cannot find evidence that legislation (or an order made under the terms of existing legislation) has been enacted in Northern Ireland covering "zombie knives" specifically. This story says the Executive at the time was planning introducing legislation following the ban in England and Wales, but I can't find clear evidence that it did so. With the suspension of the Executive, followed by the disruption of Covid-19, it's quite possible that it did not. While there are newspaper reports of people being arrested with zombie knives (e.g.), those all appear to be simple knife offences (where the supposed zombie-ness of the knife is not the issue).

We should not so blithely state any fact about the law of "The UK" without showing explicitly that laws covering all of the UK exist. In this case, the article was wrong about the law in Scotland for four years, and quite possibly about the law in Northern Ireland too. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 16:27, 15 November 2022 (UTC)


 * I should note that the wording of parts of the 2019 act talk about Northern Ireland, but only when talking about the definition of flick knives and sentencing. It's not clear to me that the law it is amending applies in Northern Ireland. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 16:57, 15 November 2022 (UTC)