O.k I need to come clean on this , “into guns and knives” was a bit provocative, and whilst I have a few guns , the only knives I have are in the kitchen draw, and I don’t put camo paint on my face to watch reruns of “The World at War” !! Nice story about the Zulu knife; it would be nice to think it was true, but if it wasn’t, its still a Zulu knife, that they didn’t give away (like swapping shirts at the end of a game of footie!!) Incidently whilst talking of political correctness, and Zulus, an American company pruduces .577 cartridges, and like many cartridge manufacturers they put a picture on the box of the intended quarry, i.e pheasant, duck, pigeon, Zulu warrior!! (I kid you not)

Oh dear, are we fighting political correctness over the current fear and loathing over the so called obsession with knife ownership.
Up and till a few years ago I was a local Scout leader, the directive came out from head office that non of the kids were allowed knives, what, how can a Scout function without his Swiss Army penknife, with great difficulty, it proved, so we ignored the ruling, but then these weren’t nasty inner city kids and that should have been considered.
When I was a youth, I would never go anywhere without my WW2 Australian bush knife, it was so usefull for making dens and stuff, we never had any thoughts of it as a weapon.
Interestingly enough, last year my son lived with a Massai tribe for a month and they did do a swap, trainers, tee shirts and jeans for a warriors cloak, beads and sword, mind you, he was made an honourary warrior, Heathrow never battered an eyelid when he brought that through customs, beautiful piece of kit as well.

I understand what you say about owning aviation artifacts that caused a death rather than being just part of the whole sad story, I do have a Spitfire gunsite with a chunk out of the rubber protector, it’s made me think, but I guess it’s more down to age and missuse than anything else, all my other bits and pieces are probably just silent witnesses.