{"id":5376,"date":"2016-01-12T09:39:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=5376"},"modified":"2016-01-12T09:39:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T17:39:28","slug":"article-the-legality-of-martial-arts-weapons-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=5376","title":{"rendered":"Article: The Legality of Martial Arts Weapons In Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is an excerpt from an article by by Q. D. Agnew on Canadian law and weapon arts. Worth a read for any Canadian martial artist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Martial arts practitioners, particularly those in the weapons arts, often have concerns about the legality of their weapons.  Questions arise about whether or not it is legal to carry a sword, use nunchaka, take the bus with a sai in your gym bag and similar matters.  The purpose of this article is to give some guidance on these questions for practitioners in Canada.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the full article, click the link below:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.ejmas.com\/tin\/2004tin\/tinart_agnew_0104.html<\/p>\n<p>(Reproduced under fair-use and with credit)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is an excerpt from an article by by Q. D. Agnew on Canadian law and weapon arts. Worth a read for any Canadian martial artist. &#8221; Martial arts practitioners, particularly those in the weapons arts, often have concerns about the legality of their weapons. Questions arise about whether or not it is legal to carry a sword, use nunchaka, take the bus with a sai in your gym bag and similar matters. The purpose of this article is to give some guidance on these questions for practitioners in Canada.&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=5376\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5378,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions\/5378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}