# Weapons (items made or adapted to cause injury) — Postal shipping restrictions by item category

For Weapons (items made or adapted to cause injury), carrier is Royal Mail / Parcelforce; restriction type is prohibited; scope is UK and International; conditions is Includes items made or adapted for the sole purpose of causing injury, Section 5 firearms, CS gas, pepper sprays, tasers, stun guns, flick knives, gravity knives, disguised knives, butterfly knives and crossbows, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Item category:** Weapons (items made or adapted to cause injury) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Carrier:** Royal Mail / Parcelforce _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Restriction type:** prohibited _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Scope:** UK and International _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Conditions:** Includes items made or adapted for the sole purpose of causing injury, Section 5 firearms, CS gas, pepper sprays, tasers, stun guns, flick knives, gravity knives, disguised knives, butterfly knives and crossbows. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> Includes items made for the sole purpose of causing injury to a person, items adapted for use to cause injury to a person, and any item intended by the person sending or receiving it to cause injury to a person

## Source

- https://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/media/w5dlus1c/foia-response_foi2025_00179_appendix-d_rm-dangerous-goods-and-prohibited-and-restricted.pdf

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-08-10.
Part of [Postal shipping restrictions by item category](https://referencesource.org/shipping-restrictions-by-class/).