‘Wolverine claws’ seized in property raid alongside swords and machetes
A terrifying Wolverine-style weapon was discovered during a raid.
Police found a Freddy Kruger-style glove with three long blades attached to it, while searching a house in Tavistock, Devon.
The ‘claw’ was found alongside several other dangerous weapons, including machetes, knives, swords, axes and shurikens.
Officers do not believe the deadly equipment was kept with the intention of causing harm.
But it is still illegal to possess items like this and the force wanted to remind people of this.
West Devon Police said: ‘It’s important to note that we do not believe these items were held with any immediate intent to cause harm but a top job from the team removing them from the public domain.’
It is an offence to buy, possess or lend various knives and weapons.
Last year, consumer group Which? found banned items such as zombie knives, knuckle dusters, swords and batons were being sold on AliExpress, Amazon, eBay and Wish.
Third-party sellers use creative ways to avoid detection and list the weapons on online marketplaces for as little as 49p.
Some of the listings use special characters, such as ‘baton’, in the title, or the word only being used in the artwork – presumably to avoid detection by moderators.
Simple searches of the terms ‘flick knife’, ‘automatic opening knife’ and ‘spring assisted knives’ returned dozens of results on each.
Many were priced at less than £10 and some were even marketed for self-defence.
Someone found with any of these weapons, even inadvertently, could face a prison sentence.
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