Reply #26: I grow increasingly disappointed [View All]

[iverglas]

WAC shows self-regulate in the manner you describe, and we don't call it a ban.

"We" can call it what "we" like. WAC, whatever it is, bans private sales w/o NICS checks at its shows, too obviously.

It is impossible to read the article you linked to as referring to anything but a voluntary ban on sales of knives, imposed by boot sale organizers on the people who pay to sell goods at their events.

Perhaps now that you know what kind of event is in question, it all makes sense to you.

There is NO ban on the sale of knives in the UK, other than to minors, that being the obvious reason why ID is required for a purchase: to prove age. Just like for buying booze and cigarettes in the US.