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Alb
Well, if the seller didn't have a way of verifying you were 18+ when you bought the knife and axe, they were unequivocally breaking the law - so I would have thought that wouldn't be cool with velocio as they've involved the forum in that.
On the slingshot, I obviously am not assuming either buyer or seller is going to use it to attack someone. I said that explicitly. The screenshot shows that the police will require you to have a reasonable excuse if you are carrying the slingshot and I'd be surprised if they consider 'its just a toy' to count, especially considering how this one looks. A friend of mine got taken to court because he had a penknife in his bag to cut cheese and apples with (he also had the cheese and apples), and got caught up in a protest he wasn't even attending. So I wouldn't recommend taking it on your next bike packing trip, but you do you.