Home deliveries of knives bought online to be banned in UK

[stanc]

So, what you're saying is that, no, you cannot link to any authoritative source(s) which confirm that actually is what "within the law" means in English law.

stanc, you are now coming across as very stupid, I have provided you the link to why it was written that way and also a link in the last post to a brief history of English gun law which states " However in 1903 Britain passed its first ever "gun control" law," but you still have a hang up on the way it was written in 1689 to try to make your point about English gun law and again you do not know what you are talking about.

That is ironic and amusing, coming from the guy who made the absurd remark that, "In English law 'within the law' means the law applies to everyone."

...just for you here is the meaning of "within the law"; a rule made by a government that states how people may and may not behave in society and in business, and that often orders particular punishments if they do not obey, or a system of such rules.

Hey, you finally got it right! Congratulations.

Again i pointed out there was no gun law in the England until parliament passed the first law in 1903.

No gun laws until 1903?

Following the assassination of William of Orange in 1584 with a concealed wheellock pistol, Queen Elizabeth I, fearing assassination by Roman Catholics, banned possession of wheellock pistols near a royal palace in 1594. There were growing concerns in the 16th century over the use of guns and crossbows. Four acts were imposed to restrict their use.

After the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745, harsh laws providing, amongst other things, for disarming the Highlands of Scotland, were enacted by the Parliament of Great Britain: the Disarming Acts of 1716 and 1725, and the Act of Proscription 1746.

The first British firearm controls were introduced as part of the Vagrancy Act 1824, which was set up in a reaction against the large number of people roaming the country with weapons brought back from the Napoleonic wars. It allowed the police to arrest "any person with any gun, pistol, hanger [dagger], cutlass, bludgeon or other offensive weapon... with intent to commit a felonious act". It was followed by the Night Poaching Act 1828 and Night Poaching Act 1844, the Game Act 1831, and the Poaching Prevention Act 1862, which made it an offence to shoot game illegally by using a firearm.

The Gun Licence Act 1870 was created to raise revenue. It required a person to obtain a licence to carry a gun outside his own property for any reason.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_p...ed_Kingdom