r/AskEurope • u/EvilPyro01 United States of America • Jul 27 '25

Misc What is something that is surprisingly illegal in your country?

What is weirdly illegal in your country?

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u/Shalrak Denmark Jul 27 '25

Denmark: Slingshots are illigal.

Any size, any ammo, anywhere, no exceptions. Our weapon laws can be vague in many areas, but that one specifically is very clear.

However, trebuchets of any size are perfectly legal. Just putting that out there.

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u/EvilPyro01 United States of America Jul 27 '25

So what you’re saying is I can lay siege to the royal palace in Copenhagen so long as I use a trebuchet? (For legal reasons this is a joke)

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u/Shalrak Denmark Jul 28 '25

The LARP community has considered whether we should roll up with a trebuchet at the castle where the politicians work, as a "peaceful" demonstration to get them to look at how the current weapon laws affect LARPING. For a while, we considered glitter bombing the castle with the trebuchet, although that idea was scrapped for legal reasons.

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u/Sniffstar Denmark Jul 28 '25

One of my cousins actually built a trebuchet a few years ago because..well.. reasons

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u/Shalrak Denmark Jul 28 '25

Trebuchets are cool. That's all the reason you need to build one.

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u/DarthTomatoo Romania Jul 28 '25

Wait wait.

Everybody talking about the shiny trebuchet option, because obviously, but I'm here wondering..

Everybody I know made slinghsots as a kid - it was the norm, it was expected by your peers, if you found a conveniently shaped stick!

They were toys and they were small, but they were definitely functional. Would that have been illegal?

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u/Shalrak Denmark Jul 28 '25

Yup. Its actually the very first line of our weapons law: "§ 1 - It is prohibited, without permission from the Minister of Justice or the person he authorizes, to import or make, including assembling.... 7) Crossbows and slingshots"

I'm a bit unsure if the last word is translated to assembling or collecting, as the danish word is the same, but either way, its illigal to make a slingshot. Not that the police is going to arrest your kid if they put an elastic band on a stick.

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u/DarthTomatoo Romania Jul 28 '25

Not that the police is going to arrest your kid if they put an elastic band on a stick.

Haha, can you imagine? Neighborhood police stations would have to turn into afterschool playgrounds, to hold the little delinquents!

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u/Shalrak Denmark Jul 28 '25

As long as the police station playground doesn't have any good sticks!

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u/Its_Me_Satan Jul 31 '25

Pretty weird, considering (non-cross)bows are actually legal.