Thinking of carrying a Swiss Army Knife?

[Euro-commuter]

First check inside your pants.

Crown Prosecution Service does:

Offensive Weapons

When assessing whether the public interest requires a prosecution, the following factors should be considered.
The age, sex and character of the offender;

[threaded]

Yeps, we're all equal in the eyes of the law, that's why Justice wears a blindfold.

[PRC1964]

Become a Sikh and you are allowed to carry a knife for religious reasons.

[Jog On]

I have a swiss army card in my wallet.

Does that make me a thug?

[Clippy]

I have a swiss army card in my wallet.

Does that make me a thug?

Nope, it makes you a geek.

[Euro-commuter]

I have a swiss army card in my wallet.

Does that make me a thug?

I'm afraid it does. That's a concealed weapon:

Retired soldier arrested for taking tiny knife on train

A RETIRED brigadier has spoken of his shock at being arrested and having DNA samples taken for carrying a tiny utility tool in his luggage.

Tom Foulkes, of Fitzroy Road, Fleet, was on his way to a business trip in France when he found himself on the wrong side of the law.

Mr Foulkes, 56, was with his wife Sally when he was stopped by security while getting ready to board a Eurostar train at Waterloo.

The former Royal Engineer was putting his bag through an x-ray machine when eagle-eyed security staff spotted a tiny knife combined with tools inside it.

Mr Foulkes said: “When I put the luggage through the scanner they spotted it and asked me to open the bag.

“This thing is the size of a credit card and has a tiny little knife on it with a magnifying glass, tweezers and compass.

“It is the type of handy little thing you take abroad with you and I have taken it all over the world and never been stopped before. They said that I was carrying a prohibited item and said that carrying an item like this in a suitcase was committing an offence of carrying a concealed weapon.”

Mr Foulkes said he was taken aback when an officer was called from the British Transport Police and he was arrested. He then found himself being marched to a waiting police van and taken to a police station.

“Although I realise I needed to be polite I told the officer that it was going a bit too far,” said Mr Foulkes.

He said that while at the station he was quizzed for four hours and had his fingerprints and DNA taken.

A British Transport Police spokesman said: “The law on offensive weapons is a matter of judgement but looking at this it fits the description of a concealed weapon and that was why he was arrested.”

[Churchill]

Why would a (normal)girl carry a swiss-army knife?

[gingerjedi]

So as long as you wave it about so everyone can see it's ok?

Just carry a 10" long screwdriver apparently it’s not an offensive weapon but if you should be mugged it will come in handy as it will go straight through your assailants heart and out the other side.

[Euro-commuter]

So as long as you wave it about so everyone can see it's ok?

Just carry a 10" long screwdriver apparently it’s not an offensive weapon but if you should be mugged it will come in handy as it will go straight through your assailants heart and out the other side.

For some reason you seem to be confusing "offensive" and "concealed".

A screwdriver carried with the intention of being able to use it as a weapon, is an offensive weapon, whether it be conceailed or not.
A fixed-blade knife is an offensive weapon regardless of whether you intend to use it as such, unless you have an acceptable good reason for carrying it. The Swiss Card blade is fixed, so it is an offensive weapon.

A blade that is concealed is, reasonably enough, a concealed weapon. The Swiss Card is also treated as a concealed weapon, though some might argue that it is not concealed since it is not disguised as something other than what it really is.

[Churchill]

For some reason you seem to be confusing "offensive" and "concealed".

A screwdriver carried with the intention of being able to use it as a weapon, is an offensive weapon, whether it be conceailed or not.
A fixed-blade knife is an offensive weapon regardless of whether you intend to use it as such, unless you have an acceptable good reason for carrying it. The Swiss Card blade is fixed, so it is an offensive weapon.

A blade that is concealed is, reasonably enough, a concealed weapon. The Swiss Card is also treated as a concealed weapon, though some might argue that it is not concealed since it is not disguised as something other than what it really is.

It's relatively straightforward to kill someone with a credit card... How would you classify that?