There's a reason a lot of security guards still carry four or six cell maglights when even pocket torches are brighter and cheaper to run.jansman wrote:Dead right! When I whacked a burglar with a maglight,I had no problem with plod.It was dark when it happened.Plymtom wrote:I'd swap the bat fr a large maglite if I were you, have a look for other threads we've done the legal home defence thing to death several times over but a bat is premeditation unless you hang the glove and ball beside it
Also,a mag is easier to jab and swing in a confined space.A baseball bat ain't.
Also,are you a member of a UK baseball team? If not, it will never stand up in court.
The police know it just as well as the rest of us, but I had no trouble when I clouted someone with it either, as long as you're not taking the p1ss then they're mostly ok, I know one guard that got nicked for one, but he had added a glass breaker (a big spike) and a side handle, my ordinary one did the job pretty well too if I'm honest, a lot more weight to a six cell maglight than a bat, fella went off in cuffs with a busted collar bone and I didn't get stuck with the blade he had in his hand, so that's score one to mag industries and zero to the scrote with one of his mum's steak knives.
Ditch the bat MM, you might think a jury would stand behind you, (they might) but it won't be a jury for possession of an offensive weapon, it'll be a magistrate, and there's literally no reason for that bat to be there other than as a weapon, it likely wouldn't go your way. Even if you're not home at the time, say your door is swinging open and a neighbour reports it, the police will turn up to secure your property, and then they'll nick you the second you get home.
I agree the law on self defence in most of the UK sucks, but it's the law and we just have to deal with it.
I have a four cell maglight by my door, (in case of a power cut, officer.) but I have to say that it wouldn't be my first choice in the event of a break in, that would be reaching for a certain set of keys to access something that I'm required by law to keep locked away securely and I own for legitimate sporting purposes.