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Harsher sentences will also apply to bosses of online stores who let under-18s buy deadly weapons in Home Office crackdown

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250219072429/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/19/jeff-bezos-could-face-prison-amazon-knife-sales-children/


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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't help but picture some stereotypical British street urchin child (think Oliver Twist) buying a knife from Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And the avatar for Amazon just carelessly hands a child a long jagged grooved blade that serves no apparent purpose but gleeful, sadistic murder

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

long jagged grooved blade that serves no apparent purpose ~~but gleeful, sadistic murder~~ sitting on a shelf and looking cool

Mall ninja shit, my friend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Sometimes the solution to all our problems is a 10" 440A steel knife modeled after the one used by the sadistic villain in the 1986 action thriller "Cobra" starring Sylvester Stallone at his Stalloniest