Rasmus, how are knife laws in Denmark? I just realized, I don't know and started wondering is all...
The knife law in DK is terrible! Only slipjoint-knives under 7 are allowed to be carried as edc.
And we have a postalservice which refuses to deliver knives over 12 cm. Therefore, it is pretty difficult to mailorder knives over 12 cm.
On top of that, the lawenforcement has a hard time interpreting the law, which has led to paperboys being prosecuted for carrying a paper cutter. So people in DK are spooked by anything kniferelated. Hence the postalservice's refusal to deliver knives.
How about in Holland?
Here it is legal to import, own and use (within rather strict bounds) anything that could be described as a fixed blade. Delivery services have no trouble with it either. BUT: it is illegal to be 'threatening', wether that be by knife, club or toy smurf. And of course open carrying a knife is pretty threatening in itself to some people and since it's always 'the other guy' deciding if it is threatening to him, de facto it is illegal to carry a knife outside your own premises. And even on your own land, if it's threatening to somebody... Assisted or non friction/free falling folders are illegal as such. Folders smaller than 'the cross-width of you palm' (3-3.5" maybe?)are considered non-threatening per se and thus allowed to be carried even conceiled (but off course, if 'the other guy' says so...).
It is the reason for some strange situations: old ladies getting hefty fines for driving a car with a kitchen knife, just earned with frequent consumer points in the supermarket, openly on the passenger seat. A sheathed kitchen knife mind you. The argument being, that while sheathed, the blade was ready for use against the public and therefore automatically threatening.
