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Firearms are federally regulated in Canada through the Firearms Act, the Criminal Code, and the Canadian Firearms Program, a program operated within the RCMP.Regulation is largely about licensing and registration of firearms, including air guns with a muzzle velocity of more than 500 ft/s or 150 m/s and muzzle energy greater than 4.2 ft⋅lb or 5.7 J. [1]
As of the end of September 2023, there are 127 state parties to the convention. [1] Some of those countries have only adopted some of the five protocols, with two being the minimum required to be considered a party. [3] The convention has five protocols: Protocol I restricts weapons with non-detectable fragments
Article 3, §1 of the 2006 Weapons Act [7] lists the switchblade or automatic knife (couteaux à cran d'arrêt et à lame jaillissante), as well as butterfly knives, throwing knives, throwing stars, and knives or blades that have the appearance of other objects (i.e. sword canes, belt buckle knives, etc.) as prohibited weapons. [8]
English: Blank SVG map of the territory claimed by Canada Non-contiguous parts of a states/provinces are "grouped" together with the main area of the state/provinces, so any state/provinces can be coloured in completion with one click anywhere on the state/provinces's area.
A push dagger (alternately known as a punch dagger, punch knife, push knife or, less often, a push dirk) is a short-bladed dagger with a "T" handle designed to be grasped and held in a closed-fist hand so that the blade protrudes from the front of the fist, either between the index and middle fingers or between the two central fingers, when the grip and blade are symmetrical.
A "no-go area" or "no-go zone" is a neighborhood or other geographic area where some or all outsiders are either physically prevented from entering or can enter at risk.. The term includes exclusion zones, which are areas that are officially kept off-limits by the government, such as border zones and military exclusion zon
Scottish dirk, blade by Andrew Boog, Edinburgh, c. 1795, Royal Ontario Museum. A dirk is a long-bladed thrusting dagger. [1] Historically, it gained its name from the Highland dirk (Scottish Gaelic dearg) where it was a personal weapon of officers engaged in naval hand-to-hand combat during the Age of Sail [2] as well as the personal sidearm of Highlanders.
[2] [4] Some consider the stiletto a form of dagger, but most stilettos are specialized thrusting weapons not designed for cutting or slashing, even with edged examples. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] Over time, the term stiletto has been used as a general descriptive term for a variety of knife blades exhibiting a narrow blade with minimal cutting surfaces and a ...