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Nanny News: Swords, knives, etc. can't be shipped to Canada now.
phantomsoapbox.blogspot.com ^ | 9-14-2022 | The Phantom

Posted on 09/15/2022 3:05:31 AM PDT by servo1969

Today in Liberal NinnyNanny News, we have sad tidings for Canadians with unapproved hobbies:

In recent years shipping swords around the world has become increasingly difficult and complicated – and most recently CANADA seems to have singled out swords as 'dangerous goods' and have started returning our shipments sent from the US to Canada, even singling swords out with their own 'dangerous goods' checkbox along with air shocks, guns, ink cartridges, knives, liquids, swords and the dreaded 'other' category.

The merit of this spurious decision is a topic for another time, but least to say that lumping swords in with Airshocks, ink cartridges and liquids generally suggests that the perceived threat of shipping a sword is that it will somehow get out of its scabbard, out of the box and start flying around in the cockpit causing mayhem.

While this is patently ridiculous, and with swords both being legal to own across both sides of the North American border, the fact remains that swords have been once again singled out by brainless and fearful bureaucrats and, unable to sustain the shipping costs and losses at our end, we are left with no choice but to – effective immediately – halt all US->Canada sword shipments until further notice.

This is the part I liked the best right here:

This has not cut off ALL our products from Canada – Darksword Armory, who are based in Quebec, can still ship for us and the cost remains entirely free. And for the time being, as they ship direct from the Forges in China, Project X, Forge Direct Japanese and Forge Direct Chinese are still able to ship to our Canadian customers.

Yes, that's right. You can't import a wall-hanger from Buffalo New York or Podunk Iowa, because that would be -dangerous-. Okay? Super unsafe. But you can import a custom-forged silk-slicing katana from Longquan China. No problem dudes. Government just decides they'll just stop those unseemly items at the border. Because damn Americans, am I right?! But not from China, because side deals.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Hobbies; Politics
KEYWORDS: banglist; canada; knife; knives; policestate; sword

1 posted on 09/15/2022 3:05:31 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

Well, it is good to have a sword or two, after all, firearms make very poor clubs once the ammo is gone.


2 posted on 09/15/2022 3:23:54 AM PDT by exnavy (Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
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To: exnavy

If someone were to be within 100’ of Prime Minister Castro Jr with a sword, would he instinctively protect his private area with his hands


3 posted on 09/15/2022 3:33:03 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: servo1969

This will help the domestic sword industry.


4 posted on 09/15/2022 3:48:27 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Proud member of the control group)
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To: servo1969

Does this mean Sikhs are now banned from Canada?


5 posted on 09/15/2022 3:56:49 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: servo1969

If we get our republic back and Canada doesn’t, we’re gonna need a northern border wall, too...


6 posted on 09/15/2022 4:04:37 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: servo1969

Dictator wannabe Justin Castro.....


7 posted on 09/15/2022 4:05:50 AM PDT by cranked
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To: BigEdLB

LOL, he should!


8 posted on 09/15/2022 4:13:48 AM PDT by exnavy (Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
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To: servo1969

What’s next, knitting needles?


9 posted on 09/15/2022 4:24:08 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: servo1969

California North.


10 posted on 09/15/2022 5:05:45 AM PDT by moovova
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To: servo1969

Air shocks and ink cartridges?
Words fail me...


11 posted on 09/15/2022 6:19:42 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

No, Scissors would be next....sheesh


12 posted on 09/15/2022 7:53:34 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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