By The Daily Caller (World News) | Created at 2025-03-27 19:45:48 | Updated at 2025-04-04 17:01:04
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In an attempt to combat the increasing wave of knife attacks U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a ban on ninja swords on March 27.
In response to the country’s record-high knife-related crime rates, the U.K. government has imposed new strict measures to prohibit citizens from owning, manufacturing, or trading ninja swords. Those found in possession of a ninja sword face penalties of up to two years in prison. (RELATED: Graphic Video Shows Assailant With Huge Knife Stabbing Man On London Train In Broad Daylight)
Starting on Aug. 1, anyone caught selling, manufacturing, or in private possession of a ninja sword could face six months in prison. Under the new measures in the Crime and Policing Bill being debated in Parliament right now, that sentence could increase to up to two years. The government has already imposed a penalty of up to four years in prison for carrying a weapon in public.
Confirmed: Ninja swords will be banned by this summer.
When we promise action we take it. https://t.co/gjJEQIMI10
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) March 27, 2025
“We are acting with urgency to bring forward measures to prevent deadly weapons from getting into the wrong hands and will continue to do whatever is needed to prevent young people being killed on our streets as part of our mission to halve knife crime over the next decade, said Secretary of the Home Department of the United Kingdom Yvette Cooper.
Cooper stated that from July 1 to July 31, 2025, owners of ‘ninja swords’ will be paid market value for their swords by the government in a month-long government scheme to eliminate the weapons from circulation in the U.K., according to a government press release. (RELATED: Suspect In Savage Knife Attack That Roiled Britain, Triggered Speech Crackdown Had Al-Qaida Manual At Home)
The government will enforce a strict cut-off date of March 27 for any purchases made for a person to acquire a ninja sword, mentioned in the same press release.
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – AUGUST 1: Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a meeting to discuss clashes following the Southport stabbing at 10 Downing street on August 1, 2024 in London, England. The Prime Minister held a crisis meeting with British police chiefs over violent unrest that followed a knife attack targeting children in Southport. (Photo by Henry Nicholls-WPA Pool/Getty Images)
The U.K.’s Prime Minister Kier Starmer announced the ban in a retweet of his social media post from January of last year, where he promised to ban the swords.
“As Prime Minister, I’ll crack down on sales of these lethal weapons once and for all. When I announce a ban, you’ll get a ban,” he wrote on X last January.
“When we promise action we take it,” he wrote on X on March 27.
The U.K. has already banned nearly all knives and firearms from circulating society, including belt buckle knives and blow guns, according to a government press release.
