Knife type | Description |
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Butterfly knives | Also known as ‘balisongs’. A handle that splits in the middle to reveal a blade. |
Disguised knives | A blade or sharp point hidden inside something that looks like an everyday object such as a buckle, phone, brush or lipstick. |
Flick knives or gravity knives | Also known as ‘switchblades’ or ‘automatic knives’. Folding knives where the blade opens automatically, by gravity or by pressing a button or something else on the knife. |
Stealth knives | Non metal knives or spikes which are not made for use at home, for food or as a toy. |
Zombie knives | A knife with a cutting edge, a serrated edge and images or words suggesting it is used for violence. |
Swords | A curved blade over 50 centimetres, with some exceptions such as antiques, swords made to traditional methods, or swords made before 1954. |
Swordstick | A hollow walking stick or cane containing a blade. |
Push dagger | A knife where the handle fits within a clenched fist and the blade comes out from between two fingers. |
Blowpipes | Sometimes known as ‘blow guns’. A hollow tube out of which hard pellets or darts are shot by the use of breath. |
Telescopic truncheons | A knife that extends automatically, or by pressing a button or spring that is in or attached to the handle. |
Batons | Straight, side-handled or friction-lock truncheons. |
Hollow kubotan | A cylinder-shaped container containing a number of sharp spikes |
Shurikens | Also known as ‘shaken’, ‘death stars’ or ‘throwing stars’. A hard non-flexible plate with three or more sharp radiating points, designed to be thrown. |
Kusari gama | A sickle attached to a rope, cord, chain or wire. |
Kyoketsu shoge | A hook-knife attached to a rope, cord, chain or wire. |
Kusari or ‘manrikigusari’ | A weight or hand grip attached to a rope, cord, chain or wire. |
Handclaws | A band of metal or other hard material worn on the hand, from which sharp spikes come out. |
Footclaws | A bar of metal or other hard material worn on the foot, from which a number of sharp spikes come out. |
Knuckle dusters | A band of metal or other hard material worn on one or more fingers. |
Cyclone or spiral knives | A blade with one or more cutting edges that form a spiral and come to a point. |
Belt buckle knife | A buckle which incorporates or conceals a knife. |