Retourner au début du widget ? Illegal switchblade 'bestseller' on Amazon.ca until CBC reported it to retailerħ hours agoDuration3:53A CBC Toronto investigation revealed listings on Amazon for a switchblade, along with stun guns and brass knuckles, which are considered prohibited weapons in Canada. WATCH | Switchblade, stun guns, brass knuckles listed on Amazon:įin du widget Widget. But the employee - who is no longer with the company - says within a few days of the listings' removal, the stun guns reappeared on the site. Stun guns advertised as self defence or tactical flashlights were also removed from Amazon after an Ontario-based employee flagged the products internally late last year. All of the listings have since been taken down. The investigation revealed the listing for the switchblade, along with others for stun guns and brass knuckles, which are considered prohibited weapons in Canada. If it's a knife where you press a button and a blade springs out of the handle, that's a prohibited weapon and you're not allowed to have it.ĬBC Toronto combed through product listings on Amazon.ca after receiving tips from an employee and a customer who were concerned about Canada's largest online retailer advertising, selling and shipping illegal weapons.

It doesn't matter that you call it a camping knife, said Daniel Goldbloom, a Toronto criminal defence lawyer who reviewed the listing. The knife was advertised as a bestseller, with the listing stating it was purchased more than 300 times in the last month. Until last week, Amazon showed the knife as in stock and ready to ship with two-day delivery.īut then the delivery time increased - seemingly - after Amazon sold out of the stock that an independent seller had provided to its warehouse. That's what one customer wrote in a product review on Amazon.ca alongside a video they posted showing the knife spring up and down out of its handle over and over again with the flick of a switch.ĭescribed as a camping knife on the listing, the product meets the criteria of a switchblade, which is a prohibited weapon in Canada. Somehow this very illegal knife made it to my house and I could not be happier.

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