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Examples of Permitted Listings
Reminder: all listings and products must comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
Items classified as weapons under UK legislation including, but not limited to the Firearms Act 1968 and the Criminal Justice Act 1988 are prohibited. Certain knives are allowed to be sold, subject to being shipped with a permitted age verification on delivery method. A permitted age verification on delivery method is where a signature on delivery and ID is requested if the recipient appears to be under the age of 21.
The following are not classified as weapons:
Bows/hunting bows provided they are not classified as weapons under the relevant legislation
Self-defense sprays that stain an attacker’s face provided they do not contain irritants
Bullets for BB and airsoft guns that are not classed as ammunition
Toy guns provided they are not realistic
Pallet knives
Pruning saws, topiary and other shears, and secateurs
Saw blades
Carving and toasting forks
Scissors
Knife sharpeners
Razor blades permanently enclosed in a cartridge or housing with less than 2 mm of blade exposed
Knives included in ordinary cutlery sets with forks and spoons
The following knives and bladed products (provided that all merchant fulfilled orders are shipped with a permitted age verification on delivery service):
Folding blades which are not capable of being locked open
Kitchen knives, including cheese and steak knives
Folding blades that are part of a multi-tool device
Electric carving knives
Examples of Prohibited Listings
Firearms, including pistols, rifles and shotguns
Airguns and airsoft guns, including BB and paintball guns
All associated parts, kits and ammunition for firearms
Accessories which assist the use of firearms (for example, silencers and converters)
Antique and replica/imitation guns, including replica bullets
Deactivated weapons
Weapons designed to fire blanks (including starting pistols)
Black powder and all explosives
Prohibited explosive precursors
Grenades
Military weaponry
Stun guns and tasers
Blowpipes or blowguns
Harpoons/spearguns
Crossbows
Slingshots/catapults except for children’s toys
Batons and telescopic truncheons
Tear gas
Pepper spray and mace
Weapons designed to be concealed or disguised
Swordsticks and hollow kubotans
Brass knuckles, knuckledusters, handclaws and footclaws
Nunchaku/nunchuks
Shurikens, throwing knives and death stars
Kusari, kusari gama and kyoketsu shoge, being a length or rope, cord, wire, or chain fastened at one end to a sickle, knife or hard weight
Knives and blades, other than as listed in the permitted products section above, including but not limited to:
Flick knives or flick guns
Gravity knives
Belt buckle knives
Push daggers
Balisongs or butterfly knives
Disguised knives
Zombie knives
Meat cleavers
Razor blades, except if enclosed in a cartridge or housing with less than
2mm of the blade exposed
Axes
Stanley knives and blades
Hunting knives
Diving knives
Machetes and Kukri/Khukuri Machetes
Bill Hooks
Scythes
Swords
Any other article which has a blade or which is sharply pointed and which is made or adapted for use for causing injury
Please note: Sellers who list prohibited items or content can have their selling permissions removed, either temporarily or permanently.