Banning swords...

Bouncing around the re-enactment community at the moment...

Hi Everyone,
Got a favour to ask, have heard the following about the proposed ban on swords

The proposed ban on the import, sale and manufacture of swords will have an adverse effect on legitimate practitioners, collectors and manufacturers.

Actual sword related crime is very rare and does not warrant a ban that affects the cultural activities of thousands of legitimate martial artists, re-enactors, collectors and smiths. Current legislation is quite adequate to deal with violent crime connected with bladed weapons. New legislation is merely for show. Enforcing such a ban also affects cultural events such as Scottish Sword Dancing and many Sikh festivals. We urge the PM to reconsider this knee jerk reaction to media influenced scaremongering.

Thus if you would like to join this petition, against this stupid banning, which would finish a lot of things including mainly re-enactment, please click on the link below and sign the petition

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/swords/

Please take the time to read and digitally sign the petition at this address