Wie lang darf die Klinge sein? — Transcript

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1. 0:00If the police catch you with something
2. 0:02like this out there, or even in your
3. 0:04car, you’ve got a problem, and it can
4. 0:05get really expensive. I was asked
5. 0:08yesterday, how long can a knife blade
6. 0:11actually be to be carried legally in
7. 0:13public? And that’s why I’d like to
8. 0:16answer that question briefly. So, the
9. 0:19maximum blade length for a knife with a
10. 0:23fixed blade is 12 cm. If a knife like
11. 0:28this one clearly has a longer blade, it
12. 0:30falls under the carry ban of Section
13. 0:3342a of the Weapons Act. Yes, and a
14. 0:36violation of that can get really
15. 0:39expensive. However, folding knives, for
16. 0:42example, have no blade length limit. If
17. 0:46I have a folding knife like this one,
18. 0:48clearly with a blade length over 12 cm,
19. 0:51as long as it doesn’t open with one
20. 0:53hand and lock—maybe some of you
21. 0:55remember—that matches the definition
22. 0:58of a one-handed knife. You also aren't
23. 1:02allowed to carry one-handed knives in
24. 1:04public, ready for access, without a
25. 1:06legitimate interest. But if it isn’t
26. 1:09a one-handed knife, but rather a
27. 1:11folding knife that I really can only
28. 1:14operate with two hands, then the blade
29. 1:17can be any length. So there, we have no
30. 1:21blade length restriction, which goes to
31. 1:24show once again that this Weapons Act
32. 1:26perhaps needs to be revised and updated
33. 1:29. What do you think about that? That
34. 1:31fixed-blade knives have a limited blade
35. 1:34length, and folding knives—meaning
36. 1:37two-handed knives—have no limit. Feel
37. 1:39free to write it in the comments.