I think under the new UK law, you might have an issue with the top one in the first picture!
I suspect it's somewhat easier to justify in your neck of the woods.

I don't own a machete, I can see their use though. I wonder from my limited knowledge of Zombies do the UK ones use tools? The USA ones just seem to grab and bite.....

I gave away my gas chainsaw once I realized I can do most everything with a cordless reciprocating saw. Will Zombies remember to recharge them....?

The 80" in the picture is only used for "gardening". I find a hatchet and a small bow saw more useful on trips.
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Lots of exceptions that I read on the note above including antiques and religious grounds

Quote from: diffwhine on Aug 26, 2024, 10:13 PMI'm pretty sure that mine are not covered by this despite what plod said today...

https://basc.org.uk/new-legislation-on-zombie-style-knives-and-machetes-what-you-need-to-know/

Makes you wonder if our illustrious police service actually knows what the law is...

The police don't necessarily have the best grasp on the law. Especially one this new that they'll only just be learning about and figuring out what the guidance will be to them about how to apply it.

That BASC link sums up the new legislation quite well. It's a shame it's had to be so broad as to outlaw sawbacked machetes but I guess that would have left too many loopholes for the ridiculous type of blade that they're actually trying to ban.

I carry a Silky Fox Gomtaro saw when laning cuts branches like a knife through butter.
http://www.silkyfox.co.uk/gomtaro.php

Have a Crude Machete I use in the allotment was originally taken to a mountain bothy I looked after by some one but when evidence of it being used to damage trees could be seen I removed it,Great at the garden for chopping up sweetcorn and brassica stalks.

When I used to participate in target shooting I carried a .22 rifle and a few hundred rounds of ammo in the back to and from the range.

Quote from: Alan Drover on Aug 27, 2024, 08:56 AMWhen I used to participate in target shooting I carried a .22 rifle and a few hundred rounds of ammo in the back to and from the range.

Nothing wrong with that provided you were licensed to own it. Leaving it all in the car between trips to the range however...

....all locked away securely afterwards.

I was initially concerned by the legislation, as I have a billhook (my late father's) and a Finnish hunting knife (an 18th birthday present from my godmother), both of which I would be loth to part with.

I don't carry either of them around at all, they're both tools for jobs, but I don't want to saddle my lad with a similar situation I found myself in thirty years ago when my aunt called me in a state of panic because she had discovered a Walther pistol and five boxes of ammunition in my late uncle's desk...

Fortunately neither of them appear to meet the necessary criteria for a zombie to want one, so they can stay in the workshop for now.

The madness of the situation is that, no matter whether the root of the issue lies with the fetishisation of a certain specific style of weapon or not, most modestly equipped workshops contain plenty of implements that can maim, dismember or worse should their wielder so desire. After all, peasant armies were traditionally armed with scythes etc.

A old pal, sadly no longer with us and 8th army veteran said to me once he wished he could get into a particular house in coundon, Coventry.
When I asked why he said he'd left a Schmeiser machine pistol in the loft.
Lovely weapon,he said wistfully sounded like tearing calico when fired.
How many more of them are tucked away I wonder.

Gardening shops sell short-bladed saws in the form of a curved dagger with reverse-facing teeth. Good for safely pruning small branches while up a ladder, as they are used one-handed and cut on the pull not the push.

I've got one. Very easy to use.

Quote from: Alan Drover on Aug 28, 2024, 09:05 AMI've got one. Very easy to use.

So have I, on a telescopic pole.  Horrifyingly sharp.