Leave your Boadswords and Claymores at home

[Jimmy]

Lothians police have issued a statement saying that anyone who comes to the Gathering in July at Holyrood Park in Edinburgh( the biggest clan gathering since Sir Walter Scott invited King George to come to Edinburgh and this visit reinstated the kilt as the national dress of Scotland) and brings with them a sword then they will be arrested immediately.
I suppose they are talking about the clan re-actments which faeture these weapons.
The sgian dubh will still be allowed

[Tartan Shortbread Jock]

Looking forward to this gathering, hope to see clans from all over the world.
Hope the police won't be to harsh on anyone.

[JSFMACLJR]

Lothians police have issued a statement saying that anyone who comes to the Gathering in July at Holyrood Park in Edinburgh( the biggest clan gathering since Sir Walter Scott invited King George to come to Edinburgh and this visit reinstated the kilt as the national dress of Scotland) and brings with them a sword then they will be arrested immediately.
I suppose they are talking about the clan re-actments which faeture these weapons.
The sgian dubh will still be allowed

Maybe, but you'd be surprised at what some Americans and Canadaians wear to highland games: broadswords, claymores, pistols, dirks, Lochaber axes, machetes, maces...the display can be mind-boggling! I'm sure it is these sorts the constabulary have in mind.

[Phil]

This is the story from yesteday's Scotsman - http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/late...lan.5252556.jp
arrest and a possible 2 years in jail for brandishing weapons. So best to stick to a sgian dubh - that is allowed and leave the heavy metal at home.

[walkerk]

Maybe, but you'd be surprised at what some Americans and Canadaians wear to highland games: broadswords, claymores, pistols, dirks, Lochaber axes, machetes, maces...the display can be mind-boggling!

And those are just the wee bairns.

[Monkey@Arms]

And those are just the wee bairns.

Leave my family out of this.

Best regards,

Jake

[highland mafia]

Maybe, but you'd be surprised at what some Americans and Canadaians wear to highland games: broadswords, claymores, pistols, dirks, Lochaber axes, machetes, maces...the display can be mind-boggling! I'm sure it is these sorts the constabulary have in mind.

Hey speak for your own side of the border! . I've been going many games all over Canada since I was a kid. This year I'm playing at seven. And I've never seen anyone other then re-enactors with any kind of weapon. To be honest I think it's pretty silly to be decked out in all kinds of stuff like that. After all it's one thing to wear a kilt but come on it's 2009 for goodness sake.

P.S. It's spelt Canadian my Americaian cousin.

[JSFMACLJR]

Hey speak for your own side of the border! . I've been going many games all over Canada since I was a kid. This year I'm playing at seven. And I've never seen anyone other then re-enactors with any kind of weapon. To be honest I think it's pretty silly to be decked out in all kinds of stuff like that. After all it's one thing to wear a kilt but come on it's 2009 for goodness sake.

P.S. It's spelt Canadian my Americaian cousin.

Guess what, Highland Mafia? I was born in Woodstock, Ontario, just up the Governor's Road from London! The extra "a" was a typo. And you know, I've been going to games in Canada since 1963.

While there aren't as many crazies at the Canadian games as there are at the American ones I've attended, I certainly have seen dirks and axes worn and carried by Canadians.

Perhaps we are Canadian cousins!

Cheers,
J. Sandford Fleming MacLean

[Dr Mac]

Would be very glad to oblige the constabulary, if I could just find the financial means to make the trip. :-(

[JolyStNicholas]

It sounds to me that they are expecting some sort of up raising. Swords, axes,etc. They should be more concerned with H&K59's,Glocks, S&W's C4,scyntex,etc,etc,etc.