Legal Weapons UK

Legal Weapons for Preppers in the UK 

As a Prepper you must know the rules and laws regarding legal weapons in the UK. Defending what is rightly yours and ensuring all your efforts to prepare for a Dooms Day scenario ARE worth it – it naturally follows that you have to be prepared to defend your family, your home and your survival supplies.

When SHTF, the next thing to happen will be a country WROL – it’s inevitable for people to take the law into their own hands as looting increases as people become more desperate for food and water.

Quite how you decide to defend will be a very big decision to make.

 

Possibly the best legal weapon in your arsenal is you ability to  KEEP QUIET  and generally only tell other preppers who are in your prepping network – the more people who know you have good supplies of food and water, the bigger the risk to you and your family.

 

Weapons in the UK and the laws regarding weapons are mighty strict – so much so that just about anything can be deemed as a dangerous, unlawful and offensive weapon in certain situations.

Those situations are primarily, if you are carrying the weapon in a public place AND if you are caught carrying, what can be considered an offensive weapon, you’d better have a pretty dam good, convincing reason.

Otherwise – your nicked mate. – Along with CONFISCATION of the weapon and a huge fine, you risk an even bigger chance of imprisonment.

As an example  -  a prepper would only have a couple of GENUINE reason to be carnying around a razor sharp skinning knife, an axe or maybe a 8″ hunting knife – these are:

• Carrying it to a bug out location or bushcraft site or survival course
• using it for bushcraft skills whilst practising such skills
• Carrying it back home
• Taking it to or from a repair shop [eg. to be resharpened]

Other than the above reasons, as a prepper, I don’t see any other need for that weapon to leave the confines of your own home and be carried around anywhere in public – it makes plain simple sense really. 

 

What constitutes an offensive weapon?

The laws in the United Kingdom are very strict on this and what the law books say about them can be found in the Prevention of Crime Act 1953. Section 1 (1)

Just about anything can be deemed an offensive weapon if you try!

However, the law says -

- Any person who without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, the proof whereof shall lie on him, has with him in any public place any offensive weapon shall be guilty of an offence.’ 

 

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So, first rule of ensuring you comply with the offensive weapons laws in the UK is, whatever type of weapons you decide to add to your survival kit – DO NOT TAKE THEM OUTSIDE IN A PUBLIC PLACE. – Keep them at home and if you wish to practice with them it must be on your own land or land where you have complete permission from the land owner [maybe a farm and you are helping to keep a vermin problem down by shooting rats with your air gun.] If you do need to take any weapon in within a public place then think twice about your reasons and ensure they are genuine and legitimate.

 

* It is, however, legal to carry a non lockable folding pocket knife or multi purpose tool provided the blade is below 3″ long. BUT… you must have a good, valid reason to be carrying it. Because there are some situations where a pocket knife ]carried legally or not] would not be acceptable to have in your pocket.

It makes sense you would think twice about the implications of taking a pocket knife to a football match, regardless of the fact that a pocket knife is deemed as a legal weapon in the UK – it’s just common sense – “Oh, I’m sorry officer, I forgot it was in my pocket”, is not a valid reason – if that’s your proposed excuse, expect to get it taken away and probably you as well.!

Weapons are essential to us preppers, especially when practising our survival skills but make sure you do so responsibly and within the law.

 

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- The weapons below are legal UK weapons and weapons that are you allowed to own in the UK - 

Although anything can be made into a weapon this list is for generally accepted weapons that are legal to own without requiring a FIC [ fire arms certificate ] or any other special permission.

To buy any weapons for sale in the UK you must be over 18 - 

 Find out more about the various weapons you can own and use as a prepper in the UK by using the links below - 

• Axe
• Bow
• Crossbow
• Catapult
• Machette 
• Pocket knife
• Folding blade knife – any length - not much use to a prepper
• Fixed blade knife – any length blade - Survival knife Hunting knife skinning knife etc
• Multi function tool that includes a knife - Swiss Army Knife – Utility Tool Knife
• BB Gun – painted bright orange or blue for non UKARA members – not much use to a prepper
• BB Gun – authentic gun colour & style  - for registered UKARA members only - not much use to a prepper
• Paintball Gun – any type, style, colour
• Paintball Hand Gun – any type, style, colour
• Air Rifle – below 12 ft lb [muzzle velocity]
• Air pistol – below 6 ft lb [muzzle velocity] - not much use to a prepper

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 IF YOU ARE IB ANY DOUBT AS TO WHAT CONSTITUTES A LEGAL WEAPON UK YOU MUST CHECK WITH YOU LOCAL POLICE FORCE AND BE 100% CERTAIN BEFORE RISKING A HEFTY FINE