So I fancy myself a bit of a ninja, and being from Australia, I have a nice collection of throwing knives, however I didn't bring them to Switzerland because I was unsure of the legalities. I noticed however that some shops sell butterfly knives, which are very illegal in Australia.

So does anyone know whether throwing knives are legal here and if a license is required?

I'm in the Aargau canton, if that matters.

Heey, i went to Sweden with airplane where i brought my switchblade, and everything went good, and i also brought 3 other knifes ( since i am also a knife lover!).

All I know is, that if you're in the Swiss Army, you can carry a pocket knife - provided you're in the cavalry and only buy wine without a screw-cap.

Alas, unless you are one-armed, swichblades and butterlies are illegal here since the mid '90s or so (I have several switch-blades at home, which is legal, you just can't carry them anymore)

Pity, they made great steak knives for camping!

Tom

Is the pope Catholic

I have a set of steak knives and no one has ever harassed me about them. Although I did buy them off a dodgy Albanian guy named Hurk.

He told me if I snitched he would kill me...... But with all the spying the neighbors do I think they would have reported it by now if it were illegal.

If all else fails tell them your collection is all steak knives.

If you own a knife with a fixed blade it might be a weapon, and you might need a license for the weapon.

http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/5/514.54.de.pdf

http://www.fedpol.admin.ch/fedpol/de...it/waffen.html

http://www.baselland.ch/fileadmin/ba...affenrecht.pdf -> look at pages 4 & 5 and exceptions on page 7.

all sales and loans of weapons must have a written contract.

Legal aspects here http://waffen.fedpol.admin.ch

So that's why my wife made us throw away all our knives and have been using only chopsticks for the last 5 years ??? Oh, damn. Do you know how difficult it is to cut a steak with a chopstick ???

i've always cut steak with chopsticks. quite easy when you get the hang of it. maybe you just need more practice?

hold on...

so a samurai sword and a "Rambo knife" isn't counted as a weapon and you can go walking around with these???

that puzzles me...the law mentions as weapon only symmetrical blades shorter than 30 cm. That means that a sword is not a weapon