Please tell me if i'm just asking too much, or if Australia really needs to have a wee think about the severity of what i was asking and where it's priorities and common sense are...
OK, so i am currently in the UK, have been for around 6 months now, and have had a chance to visit Scotland, my families home for every generation bar myself. Loved it, and decided i wanted to take two things with me back home, a Kilt, and a Sgian Dubh.
For those of you who do not know what a Sgian Dubh is, it's essentially a small dagger, maybe 5 inches or so including handle.
Now then, before i went and bought one, i thought i would email customs australia to enquire the legality of bringing such an item in, to which i am told no deal, they are illegal unless you fill in form x y and z, get a temporary authorization to import edged weapons, and get permission from my home towns closest regional firearms officer.
Apparently, as far as Australian legislation is concerned, a Sgian Dubh is a dagger, which is classed as a concealable weapon, which is illegal.
You tell me which is more likely to be used as a weapon, a razor sharp fishing/hunting/kitchen knife, which are available across the counter to people of any age, for around say 5 dollars, at any supermarket in Australia, or a rather expensive culturally signifigant traditionally worn dagger, which one would have to go right out of their way to aquire....
The fact that they were able to tell me what Australia has classed Sgian Dubhs as, tells me at some point they had to decide how to treat that specific knife, which to me is just very ridiculous, concidering the factors i just mentioned. Gah....
