No more so than your local paper allowing an ad for a store which sold knives
This has all been thrashed out many times before. If a juvenile obtained a knife via eBid and went on to kill or cause serious injury - do you really think questions would not be asked of eBid as the means used to obtain the weapon? What about the bad publicity that could well arise?
All this is pointless anyway. eBid says 'NO' and that's the end of it. They made the conscious decision some time back that it was not worth the possible grief or the time spent policing such sales.
You can all keep debating it back and forth but it will not change the situation here.
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Im with you astral276.
I have seen other sites that dont let you sell knifes and pellit guns on there sites but i have found other Big auction sites that will let you sell these items. You have to feel out alot of forms to be able to sell on there site because of the items that are being sold there.
The only thing i can say is if you dont like the rules find a diffrent place to sell your items ( like kinfes ect. ect.)
Jason
Terry as you well know the laws of a country are not made by the population, but those in power.
The population don't have to agree with them, but they are required to abide by them.
As for whether we are all wuss', I suggest you go & ask the family next UK soldier, brought back to Wootton Bassett.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/p...-mourning.html
Or maybe some of our returning servicemen & women.
Although I doubt the answer you get will be as polite as this.
To be honest, if the people that listed knives on eBid before eBid bought in the total ban, had acted responsibly, learned where their goods were legal to sell to & where not, & only made them available to those areas then maybe support wouldn't have needed to step in.
http://www.ebid.net/forums/showthrea...l=1#post928715
Unfortunately they did not all act responsibly, & kept trying to find ways to make items available, to those it was illegal to sell to. Hence the ban.
http://www.ebid.net/forums/showthrea...l=1#post970488
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Interestingly enough, a knife or cutting tool was one of the first developed by prehistoric man. Frankly, knives are useful in a large variety of applications. Use as an edged weapon is certainly one such use, but hardly the most important one in this day & age. I find that I'd be totally lost in the kitchen without my chef's knives which if you know how to use them fulfill the function of many kitchen appliances.
Unless I'm mistaken, by using this definition a pencil would be classed as a weapon. In fact, if memory serves, somewhere in my military training we were instructed on the use of a pencil as a deadly weapon. Must admit though that I would prefer a K-bar instead.
Can't really say I've ever found a pencil useful in skinning a deer, but they can be useful in fishing so I recommend keeping on in your survival kit along with some line & hooks or safety pins.
Oh! That reminds me, women's hat pins can also be used with deadly results as can double & single edge razor blades.
Of course, stone knives were, I believe, one of man's earliest tools and are still relatively easy to fashion.
Using the text of the law note the "AND which is made or adapted for causing injury to the person" which excludes most knives as they aren't 'made for causing injury to persons'
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