Legal Weapons UK
As a Prepper, defending what is rightly yours and ensuring all your efforts to prepare for a Dooms Day scenario were 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 QUITE 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. 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 conversation of the weapon and a huge fine, you risk an even bigger chance of imprisonment.
So, first rule of ensuring you comply with the Legal Weapons 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.]
What constitutes a legal UK weapon and what weapons are you allowed to have at home:
Although anything can be made into a weapon this list is for generally accepted weapons -
To buy any weapons for sale in the UK you must be over 18 - 
- Axe
- Bow
- Catapult
- Machette
- Pocket knife
- Folding blade knife – any length
- Fixed blade knife – any length blade
- Multi function tool that includes a knife
- BB Gun – painted bright orange or blue for non UKARA members
- BB Gun – authentic gun colour & style - for registered UKARA members only
- Paintball Gun – any type, style, colour
- Air Rifle – below 12 ft lb
- Air Rifle – above 12 ft lb – a firearms certificate is required - full information from BASA
- Air pistol – same rules as for an Air Rifle above
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