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Seems they are still allowing the sale of real samurai swords or genuine folded steel swords made by craftsmen in Japan. It’s just the cheap imitation ones that are getting banned.

However, it’s a little unclear as to what the law is. From what I can make out it will be illegal to import and sell them but they are very sketchy on the specifics of owning a sword. It says that flouting the law can get you a £5000 fine and 6 months in jail but for importers/sellers it could be 7 years.

This seems a bit confusing to me because they don’t actually mention it’s illegal to own one but it seems as if they are hinting that’s the case.

You can still sell them to collectors iff your a dealer (i think) Auction houses can still sell them also. Its the ones held in collections that are ok the genuine ones.

I tryed to sell 2 deactivated revolvers a year or so ago and it was a minefield trying to find out what the law conserning them was. I was at auction last summer with a policeman who was buying decativated AKMs/47s he even bought a trailer mounted Maxim gun. The law on replicas/deactivated guns is only that your not alowed to cary them in public without permition (ie sending them to auction/dealer valuation).

a friend was murdered, randomly, in the street by a guy with a samurai sword about 3 years ago, in Sidmouth

the local paper has been running a campaign to have them banned ever since