New research has found that leading online marketplaces are illegally selling weapons.
Looking through popular sites including AliExpress, Amazon, eBay and Wish, the consumer experts at Which? found a number of weapons that could land buyers prison time. According to the Offensive Weapons Act 2019, most of the weapons that were found should be available for sale in the UK.
In some cases the weapons found cannot even be owned in a private home. The weapons found included knives, knuckle dusters, swords and batons with AliExpress and Wish found to be the worst offenders, selling weapons that could be found with simple searches of the terms ‘flick knife’.
