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Remember the term “loophole”?\u00a0 The left tries to use it quite a bit around gun Police will get powers to seize kitchen knives from homes if they suspect they will be used in crimes under plans to crackdown on dangerous weapons<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ministers are to consult on proposals for police to have extra powers to \u201cseize, retain and destroy bladed articles\u201d held in private even if the knives are not on the Home Office\u2019s banned list of weapons.<\/p>\n It is one of a raft of measures to close loopholes and toughen sentences for the sale, importation and possession of knives after a 11 per cent increase in knife offences to more than 50,000 last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Supposedly this targets machetes, ‘zombie knives’ (wtf is that?) but the criteria are incredibly vague:<\/p>\n \u201cWe consider it a proportionate response for the police, where they are in private property lawfully, to seize, retain and eventually destroy bladed articles if they have good reason to believe they will be used in crime,\u201d said the consultation.<\/p>\n Ministers said it was designed to cover dangerous weapons like ceremonial swords, but it will also apply to any knives police suspect could be used in a crime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nconfiscation<\/del>\u00a0 control discussions – the “gun show” loophole, the “background check” loophole, the “private sales” loophole – any thing they see as insufficiently under their control, they call a loophole. When folks on the other side of the fence object to how they phrase their new laws and cite ‘potential for abuse’ the left poo-poos the notion with “no one is actually TALKING about doing that” (cue Beto, Swallowswell\u00a0 et al, who DO talk like that.) Well, the Brits have already made handguns essentially illegal, and famously have cracked down on even little Swiss Army knives. Now:<\/p>\n