Originally Posted by Lateralus

Today I went to this awesome movie weapons store to buy my boyfriend a particular LOTR replica sword for his birthday... only to find out that in order to purchase and own a sword, even if it's purely for collection and has the edges dulled, that you have to get a government exemption from this 'Banned Weapons' Act that costs even more money on top of the ridiculously priced sword and all this other shit... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Does anyone know if purchasing swords and replica weapons and stuff is this difficult anywhere else in the world? Because personally I think it is very annoying...