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If you keep any form of weapon near your bed which would not normally be in a bedroom e.g. baseball bat, club, sword etc, then the police may prosecute you.
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That sounds like just so much cods-wallop to me!
There are perfectly good & legal reasons for keeping a baseball bat, sword, club or other items that may be construed to be "weapons" in the bedroom.
Especially if you have children in the house, you simply keep them safe away from the kids who are not allowed in mummy/daddies bedroom.
Baseball bats are kept away from them to stop them hurting each other & only bought out when a game is played (or ya get burgled).
What may be considered to be a weapon outside the boundaries of the home often has perfectly legitimate uses inside it.
Household items can be found in any room within the house and have perfectly legitimate reasons for being there.
Just because they happen to still be there on the eve that you get an unwanted visit is purely circumstantial.
As is the unfortunate circumstance of the burglar walking into your baseball bat just as you were practising your swing methods because you cannot sleep (having told the rest of the household not to come downstairs as your practising "swinging your bat").
Jail me, go on I dare them...
I think we should petition the european courts for a similar constitution to the states & allow us to carry arms, legs & baseball bats within our own homes.