The Sale of All Non-Kitchen Knives >20cm to Be Banned in Victoria

mapax on 28/05/2025 - 10:46
Last edited 28/05/2025 - 16:50 by 1 other user

The banning of the sale of >20cm non-kitchen knives and machetes goes into effect at midday today in Victoria and in September it will be illegal to own them with fines of more than $47,000 or 2 years imprisonment. This is expected to include all non-kitchen knives such as camping, bushcraft, hunting and horticultural knives unless the government changes the laws between now and September.

How Victoria's machete sale ban will be enforced

Victorians who took part in the Fiskars deal or any of the other camping knife deals that are >20cm will have to surrender them when the amnesty begins or face excessively harsh penalties.

These laws will do little to stop criminals from using kitchen knives, hatchets, buying interstate, or simply making crude machetes from flat bar. It is only going to have a major impact on law abiding citizens.

As a park ranger/natural resource manager it’s common to see >20cm knives being used for hand weeding and machetes/brush hooks being used to clear brush such as kunzea when working around sound sensitive areas/animals.

Update from ABC-

The government previously said a machete was longer than 20cm, but have since said knives under that length could also come under the ban

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  • ganymede on 29/05/2025 - 22:22

    What are we going to ban next? Folding chair?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dIXkzzaLqE

  • Donmega123 on 29/05/2025 - 23:19
    +2

    Machetes are amazing tools we use ours all the time in the garden and when I'm showing off with coconuts or watermelon

  • lew380 on 30/05/2025 - 07:14
    +2

    So we have had machetes and axes and long knives for hundreds of years with little to no problem. But the knives have suddenly started to stab people? It's almost as if it's not the instrument that commits the crime but the wielder? I'm probably just crazy, who am I to question the ways of our glorious political knee jerk lefty politicians. If it works for the UK, it'll work here!

    The UK went from a super power to a despotic third world shit hole in 50 years, and we are copying their every move. This is going to be great….

  • OBEY YOUR MASTERS on 30/05/2025 - 07:41
    +3

    Is it really the knives that are the problem or certain violent cultures? Why are we doing this to ourselves?

    • H3R34TH4C0MM3NTS on 30/05/2025 - 10:36

      no its the the lack of punishment, Law enforcement should be given the authority to engage with lethal force if there is non-compliance when using these tools in a dangerous manner. VicPol should change thier policies to shoot first ask questions later. This would put an end to the youth crime crises epidemic putting the safety of the community at risk.

      • OBEY YOUR MASTERS on 30/05/2025 - 12:05

        So you want the police to go around shooting the youth from foreign cultures? That doesnt sound like a good solution.

        • H3R34TH4C0MM3NTS on 30/05/2025 - 13:08

          did I mention anything about ethnicity or culture? I dont think so . ANYONE do brandishes a potential deadly weapon should be seen as an armed combatant and should be engaged with lethal force if they do not yield and comply with orders from law enforcement.

          This will all but virtually eliminate this youth crime crisis and epidemic in melbourne and greater Victoria.

          Theres too many beaureaucrats and do gooders profiting from the current corrections system here, with NO accountibility.
          When violent recidivist criminals are released into the community with impunity, this is the only solution. Rehabilitation is a failed policy and an extention of the woke mind virus.

          • OBEY YOUR MASTERS on 30/05/2025 - 17:29

            @H3R34TH4C0MM3NTS: No you didnt mention race and culture because you are clueless and possibly a little cowardly.

            We never had any knife crime issues before this. There was no need for police to go around executing people in order to fix the problem.

            • H3R34TH4C0MM3NTS on 31/05/2025 - 00:24

              @OBEY YOUR MASTERS: Yes we have never had a knife crime problem before this and now we do. We have embolden criminals holding our society and communities to ransom. Goverment and police are expected to uphold the will of the people and keep our communities safe. They are not only failing but they are enabling. Current systems are not going to fix this problem they are only going to make things worse.

          • Muppet Detector on 06/06/2025 - 12:10
            +1

            @H3R34TH4C0MM3NTS:

            ANYONE do brandishes a potential deadly weapon should be seen as an armed combatant and should be engaged with lethal force if they do not yield and comply with orders from law enforcement.

            That worked out so well for the policeman and that old lady in the nursing home…

    • Protractor on 30/05/2025 - 10:58
      -3

      certain violent cultures

      Israel?

      • OBEY YOUR MASTERS on 30/05/2025 - 12:03

        Lol you're so cute. Israel is for sure a violent culture but not much to do with knife crime.

  • H3R34TH4C0MM3NTS on 30/05/2025 - 10:33
    +1

    What is a Kitchen? if I put a stove next to a banana tree plantation does that count as a kitchen.
    Can my Machete now identify as a kitchen knife, I just dont like these binary concepts.

    • Protractor on 30/05/2025 - 11:00

      Binary ( two) concepts are a bridge too far for you?

      • H3R34TH4C0MM3NTS on 30/05/2025 - 13:03

        I guess there are 2 types of people that understand binary, those that do and those that don't. but everything is just fluid and on a continous spectrum, I have no clue what I am today and what I will be tommorow.

  • WoodYouLikeSomeCash on 30/05/2025 - 14:09
    +4

    Isn’t immigration great! Really helping our country isn’t it!

    • smartazz104 on 30/05/2025 - 14:53

      Just keeping up the status quo, this country was built on crime after all /s

    • Protractor on 30/05/2025 - 15:14
      -3

      They have identified as persecuted Afrikaaner farmers. I hear it's a popular entry method.

      • OBEY YOUR MASTERS on 06/06/2025 - 18:41

        There's a show called The Muppets. I hear they're hiring. Would you like to apply?

  • meowbert on 30/05/2025 - 14:13
    +1

    It's a good thing that you physically cannot stab someone with a non-kitchen knife 19cm or less!

    In other news, stabbings with kitchen knives have increased 3000% in Victoria.

  • Mad-cow on 30/05/2025 - 14:18
    +1

    In other unrelated news, straight razor sales have skyrocketed to levels not seen since the late 1920s!

  • smartazz104 on 30/05/2025 - 14:54

    Police should just let these youths stab each other, sooner or later there will be none left.

    • mapax on 31/05/2025 - 08:01
      +3

      In an update on Monday afternoon, Victoria Police said some of the eight alleged offenders were known to police and believed to have been on bail at the time of the daylight attack

      • Protractor on 31/05/2025 - 09:56

        They couldn't even give an actual number of those on bail?

        And what exactly were they on bail for, murder or loitering?

  • Maxi Pad on 31/05/2025 - 21:07

    I reckon a small knife is more deadly than a Machete. A Machete needs a swing and so can be avoided / deflected. A small knife, with fast, direct thrusts is pretty hard to avoid.

  • coulstee on 31/05/2025 - 21:14
    +2

    man im feeling so safe thanks to the government. thanks government.

  • Purp on 01/06/2025 - 13:36
    +2

    Diversity is our strength tho

  • bambolayo on 01/06/2025 - 17:28

    I guest someone should suit this government for banning the knives.
    The knives themself do not kill people. And people have the need for the tool for whatever they want to do, legally of course.
    Car kill more people than a knife, do they ban the cars?
    This is ridiculous.

    • OBEY YOUR MASTERS on 01/06/2025 - 19:27

      I guess they need to be seen to be doing something about it. It doesnt need to be effective.

  • kobeduck on 03/06/2025 - 08:47

    Good to see Victoria continuing the Daniel Andrews tradition of BS rules without putting much thought into it. Why not put curfew in? Why not provide incentives to police? Oh yeah that's right - it cost money. Greedy as always.

  • Spookware on 03/06/2025 - 12:56

    Hang on, guns are banned in New York? So like in Victoria this will work?

    "Through April 2025, the 28 police departments collectively reported 139 shooting
    incidents involving injury. The number of individuals shot through April 2025 was 156 "

    Police cannot even ban Vapes, complete joke of a state.

    • Protractor on 03/06/2025 - 12:58
      -1

      You are comparing the lost cause USA basket case to Straya?

      That is treason.

      • Spookware on 03/06/2025 - 14:54

        I dont know, if its banned in America I might have to walk a bit further than the local Smokemart to buy my contraband.

        :)

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