Just imagining this world is hilarious. Inner city violence is mainly perpetrated by crips and bloods performing drive-by lancings. After a number of mass-swording incidents in sword-free zones, politicians in some states start banning swords with "knightly style features" such as pommels, double edged blades, and D-guards. The messer is just a California compliant sword, and everyone else in the United States calls them Swordlets for not being able to have knightly style features on their swords. Police chases are 900% more interesting because of the 70 pounds of plate armor they wear. The Canadian government looks at pictures of scary swords online and starts banning them by name, including many fantasy swords that don't even exist. The possibilities are endless.
> The Canadian government looks at pictures of scary swords online and starts banning them by name, including many fantasy swords that don't even exist. My sides.
I shall flounce around in a 17th century manner with a rapier on my hip, a big goofy hat with lots of feathers, King Louis 14th shoes, a big wig, and call myself Pimp
that couldn't be possible, since the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch is a sacred weapon of mass destruction that oly few important figures are allowed to handle.
Let's not underestimate the power of pepper spray, especially as an off hand weapon. Did you draw your weapon against someone? They are probably paying attention to the club/knife/hatchet in your main hand, not that small bottle hidden in your other hand. They won't expect you to have brought a blinding agent to a knife fight.
On a personal note. Pulling out a bigger knife than the angry guy holding a small knife does tend to make the person with the small knife reconsider his plans.
this comment reminds me of tale told me by a dad, he was with group of friends getting girls and getting drunk, other group of tough guys were angry that they took the girls and wanted to fight, so his group (including him) dropped their leather jackets on the ground exposing pretty large knives they carried concealed, other group quickly backed off
The most realistic (in my mind) scenario where this would happened if gunpowder somehow became a much rarer resource and so only the army or the rich could afford to fire guns. Criminals would be more likely to rob you of bullets than to use them on you.
That wouldn't happen. Firstly, that's bad Japanese, even weebs can speak Japanese at least passably. Second, if they're going to kill someone with a Katana, they'd make sure that the Katana is fit for the job. So more likely a $2,000 Katana than a $20 turd. Then thirdly, if they're targetting you specifically, it's because you've done something to anger them, so they're not going to waste time speaking Japanese. Except maybe as a one-liner once they gut you. Also, not all weebs are fat, nor do they all like katana.
Nonsense, i never go bungee jumping without my trusty greatsword. What if i got entangled in enchanted bungees that are only vulnerable to greatswords? Go figure
You're a lot more likely to get tangled up in bungees if you've got a 2m stick (ie. a greatsword) strapped to you XD (PS. I know you're joking. I'm joking too)
Skallagrim: "Would be the good ol machete, they are affordable, they are reliable, (well, not the absolutely cheapest ones). But their are plenty of high quality ones that wont cost you a arm and a leg." Me: No, but it might cost someone else an arm and a leg if they ever attack you. xD
@@tornielsen2888 I mean, what's carrying a gun compared to carrying bottles of acid and hardware store supplies?... probably less chances of maiming and disfiguring.
What would happen if guns dissapear? Well here in Romania and probably most of Europe, nothing really. The gun laws here are so strict that nobody carries them for self-defence, rifles are mostly used for hunting, and the people who did get a license, they mostly keep them home or in their car rather than carring them. As for what I'd carry, I'd probably go for a hand and a half sword. Can be used both one handed and single handed, can be carried easier than a longsword as it's shorter, so yeah.
Not everywhere in Europe ;) Here in the heart of Europe, we have 300,000 people with gun license (per 10,000,000 citizens), majority of whom have a concealed carry license.
My thoughts exactly. Don't know that they'd be the most practical but they're the closest replacement for guns by far, particularly in terms of minimizing the relevance of arm strength. But I think melee weaponry made for a more interesting video. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, if the other person has a sword you're basically only getting one shot off, so it better either hit and hit with serious stopping power or just scare the hell out of them.
I think the concept "what if firearms disappear" is actually intended as "what if modern weapons disappear" so no modern crossbows or bows, just medieval weapon
@Max Pain You can legally carry a sword in California too. A buddy of mine needed to walk home in gang territory one night (and he brought his sword over to show us it) and so he walked home with it on his back. No one wants to fuck with people openly wearing swords, even those with guns, go figure
I don't think that a compound bow (or any bow, for that matter) would be a very good self defense weapon in most situations. For hunting and open warfare, they're great, but most of the time when you're threatened by an assailant, it's going to be at short range (a few dozen feet at most), where even handguns can't always be brought to bear in time. By the time you've taken up your bow, drawn and nocked your arrow, and pulled back the bowstring to be ready to shoot, chances are you'd be stabbed multiple times, and even if you did shoot your assailant, unless you got them in the brain or upper spinal column, they might not stop. This is also why we don't see bows historically used as self defense weapons, close combat melee weapons were usually preferred until reliable firearms became available (apart from the fact that bows and quivers of arrows are bulky and heavy, of course).
if firearms disappear, what happens to artillery? I mean I'm all for bringing back the cutlass, but without a flintlock and a boat with cannons, how much rum do you think you'll get, Ya filthy land lubber?
"If firearms disappeared" I can tell you, here in the Midwest, it'd be crossbows and compound bows, maybe a few recurves, and all of them as accurate as Robin Hood
Bows are a pain to carry around, and don't work well in close quarters, where most fights take place. Imagine bringing a bow to a bar and trying to pull it out and load it as someone is stabbing you from less than a foot away. They're good if you plan an attack on someone and choose the right environment, but for self-defense blades or clubs work much better.
Up in Skall's neck of the woods the most common improvised weapon would be the hockey stick. Down where I live where there are a lot of golf loving Koreans, golf clubs would be the improvised weapon of choice. But more specifically, Skall would probably be one of, if not the best, equipped for an all guns disappear scenario in Canada while Matt Easton would be the one for the UK, Jorg Sparve in Germany, the Metatron in Sicily, and Shad down in Oz.
A big stick aka quarterstaff. Anyone can have one, they're dead easy to make, and a sharp poke in the gut will make obstreperous people immediately reconsider their intentions.
All joking aside, there's one aspect of modern life we have to remember: vehicles. Long weapons are out because of the hassle of getting in and out efficiently. I'd say gladius size or smaller would be realistic, and the seax would probably be the most popular. The traditional horizontal belt carry puts it out of the way, and there's no projecting guard to dig into your side or potentially punch through the upholstery of your car. I work in a rough neighborhood (spent shell casings one the sidewalk rough), and company policy doesn't allow me to have a gun on the job, so I make do with a knife. I've tried all kinds of folders, bowies, and karambits, but nothing works quite as well as the seax.
I'd also encourage trying to find a good percussive weapon. Those Cold Steel Kubatons, the polypropylene things, are surprisingly devastating. And, if it's legal where you live, a quality collapsible baton. Unless you really put your weight into it, knives don't always deliver a large shock to the system, immediately atleast, and attackers might not care immediately, or might not even notice until later. Kind of the same arguments of cut vs thrust, from back in the day.
Take a look at the exact wording of the company policy and cross-reference it with your state law to see whether you can (rules-as-written, undoubtedly not as-intended) carry a cap-and-ball revolver.
Finally someone mentioned vehicles. I agree large knives would be the most popular. I think closely followed by pepper spray, with throwing knives or shuriken for those who want projectile concealed carry. All these ranged weapons would be deterrents they would have trouble killing someone for that use a bow, crossbow, or sling. Sling probably wouldn't be common even though it can be quite deadly and travels easily because this is more about fashion than actual defense and slings just aren't popular enough.
I'd personally carry a shepard's axe (in Poland known as ciupaga, lovely word, pronounced roughly chu-paw-gah). Alternatively - some kind of Polish sabre, there's quite a cult over it here, to the point most older people tend to call all swords "szabelka" (diminutive from szabla - sabre). Funnily enough - I already can cary whatever I want, as long as it's not a blade hidden in an object that doesn't look like weapon, the only legal restriction when it comes to bladed stuff. And frankly, I've used that ability a few times, going out with one of my swords to town.
@@Disgruntled_Dave If we're on the subject of word translations, "ciupaga" comes from a verb "ciupać" (chu-pach), which is a Polish highlander dialect form of "rąbać" (rou-bach), which means "to chop". So ciupaga can be almost literally translated to chopper.
@@Disgruntled_Dave Yeah my buddy and I were looking for goat meat at at Spanish butcher one time and we didn't know the word for goat but we knew chupacabra meant goat sucker so we told the butcher "chupa" several times. We got a strange look and left only to realize later were telling him suck.
Later on on the news *"Maniac enters at a school with a big two handed sword, the president declare that teachers should use two handed swords to protect their students"* The US students now go to school with chain mail to avoid more deaths
well considering we're talking about the modern world with no firearms I would imagine kitchen knives would be the most common before industry picks up to meet the demands for pre-modern weaponry. I can imagine though there would be a lot of development into repeating crossbows as well in such a world.
@@seand.g423 What y'all thinking, one, maybe two generations before HEMA becomes a grade school class? Bout as long as until pistol shooting becomes a grade school class. So quite soon, if certain Republicans have anything to say about it :P.
But with a sword, or a crossbow, you can defend *yourself* AND the dog. Besides, why would you want your companion to face danger while you sit back in safety? Not very honorable or brave of you!
john Mullholand if you wanted to mug somebody, and one if your options had a 150lbs dog at their side, im guessing they would go pretty far down your list.
@@johncrq3594 Just watch out for the gank squads that usually consist of two dickheads with uchigatanas, and one guy throwing pyromancies at you. I encountered one in the 7-11 parking lot yesterday.
@@Megadeth7811 hey, just cause I carry a Sharp Uchi+4, does NOT mean I'm a gang-member! Also someone NEEDS to mod in a kriegmesser into the soulsborne games.
Nothing. Almost everyone would carry nothing like they do today. Most of the rest would just carry a knife because they need it for other practical reasons. For actual self defense, stun guns and pepper spray would probably dominate.
Yeah, I think Skall is off base here. Even if I wanted a self defense weapon, I probably wouldn't go for a gun because there's collateral damage risk, and I definitely wouldn't go for a machete. No idea why no guns=medieval 2.0.
''If you are gonna go bungie jumping...you are not gonna bring your two-handed greatsword.'' As a runner-up in the two-handed category of the Bungie Sword Jumping Olympics (B.S.J.O) I am greatly offended by this unenlightened statement!
I have researched what could i really bring to London if I somehow want to go back there now, when even telescopic baton, pepper spray and small pocket swiss knife are all "offensive weapon" - and walk with it undisturbed by police. Found that the only option (apart from famous "acid in a jar") are some speciffically made umbrella sfor self-defense purposes, sturdier than normal so it behave like a stick and don't break. Recommend you to google that, but perhaps even umbrellas will be banned in London soon. (Also seems that if you use heavy motorbike security chain on some guy from CZ and kill him by it, it is still considered self-defense, so there is another option - black humor...)
Arent you also allowed to shoot someone with a shotgun in the face if he walks into your garage? Texas is probably one of the regions with the least weapons und weapon use restrictions in the western world. I would be suprised, if you werent allowed to carry a sword.
Yes any bladed weapon, but you can't carry a club, baton, brass knuckles or other blunt weapons, however, a walking stick is legal because it's not intended as a weapon first and foremost. In Texas you can also carry a long-gun without a permit, as well as antique or cap and ball pistols, but modern pistols require a permit.
Im from the uk and I can tell u there is no art or glamour about machete fights ive experienced a machete being pulled on me and ive seen friends get cut /chopped /stabbed its not nice
That used to be pretty common in the Philippines...I've heard on a few of their smaller islands, far from Manila & other urban areas, men still fight with machete-type weapons.
This is always an interesting type of question. The whole "what if?" scenario. I've always wondered, similar to the scenario here, what would a modern day set of armor look like? No guns in this scenario either so not the same stuff we have now. But what would it look like? Both a practical military set and a fancy knight's armor to show off their position?
I'd just love to see the modern militaries jumping out of modern transports with kevlar and radios and drawing Swords and Bows. Better yet a tank with a Ballista on top. XD
Modern militaries would probably go revisit some treaties. Less lethal gases may be a popular choice. Electricity weapons, think tasers but with longer periods of action, possibly instant KOs, and with much longer ranges, may also prove popular. Maybe sound weapons, that temporarily deafen people.
At the moment, if guns disappeared, Militaries wouldn't have access to And good Electric or Sonic weapons and Gas wouldn't take the place of a firearm, it would be used in tandem with the Gun replacement. In the long term I expect Magnetic Weapons would be the ideal replacement.
Problem is Kevlar doesn't protect you all that well from sword strikes, only bullets from firearms, so really they'd go back to ordering suits of plate armor to defend against swords lol
Now that would be interesting. But a stun-baton instead of a sword sounds ... much more useful. And for projectile weapons you can use air instead of gunpowder. Air rifles had been use since more than 400 year or so for killing. And the design is like 2000 years old. Would work just fine in a modern world.
staves are a little hard to use, especially in tight quarters. but, if you can detach them into two parts, you can have a staff in wide areas, and dual sticks like in filipino martial arts. or, you could always get tonfas. good for defense, and improves attack, but with a lack of range.
I'm in the UK, this video is strange to me, I carry my keys, my purse and my phone. When I was a kid I carried a BBQ fork, because thats how kids roll, never had to poke anyone with it.. Once saw a man pull a kitchen knife out on a old lady, some guy just walked stright up behind him, picked him up and body slammed him into the pavement, he didn't get up again.
@@astrophobia6049 Yeah its a big difference, here in Europe noone walks around with the thought that at any time someone could pull out a gun. Because thats not the case, noone here has a gun. The only real, functional guns I ever saw were probably the ones police officers carry and thats about it. In the US though, someone pulling out a gun in public is very much a real possibility. So people do have to keep that in mind and it suddenly makes a lot more sense to carry one yourself. The problem feeds into itself in a way, but because of that it does make more sense for everyone to carry a weapon in public.
@@TheSpeep It all depends on the area, though. In high crime places, then I would be worried about someone pulling a weapon out on me, but I live in an area with very low crime. You never know what will happen since danger strikes when you least expect it, so stay safe.
IamCombustible thats a shotgun, people dont don't kill each other with shotguns, they don't go walking around with one under their coat they are not practical, my grandmother had a shotgun and she lived in Surrey it was for clay pigeon shooting, my brother had a friend with a gun license he had everything the law allowed him to have at the time and carried a small machine gun in his car, but we are not paranoid about guns. You do hear about people getting shot, there was a driveby last week but its normally just gangs killing each other so no ones bothered, let them kill each other, sometimes theres mistaken identity but most people think thats rare, more so then the news makes out, its more like that person isn't known to the police yet so its assumed thry are innocent as they don't have a criminal record. French people have plenty of guns, that country doesn't feel unsafe, it doesn't really feel any different to the UK in that respect, and I have plenty of relatives in Canada, plenty of places there where people leave their doors unlocked, guns are for hunting. Americans seem to have some special mentality, paranoia even that makes them so trigger happy, they are up there with Brazil and South Africa, yet those two you can see reasons behind more.
Ones with a steel pommel end, lightens up the stick for whipping it around and fighting for space and then you have the heavy end for using like a mace to end them rightly.
As far as people making guns for themselves there is a neat episode of Forgotten Weapons where he looks at a couple of guns seized from poachers in Africa that had been home-made. They were not incredibly sophisticated, but if people still had access to machine shops there would be a steady supply of guns neverending. I have no idea how easy it is to make black powder or nitrocellulose.
Machine shop? There's people in parts of Pakistan that make guns using only hand tools and they can look almost as good as one made in an actual factory.
People make working guns inside of prisons. Anyone with access to a stocked machine shop can do far better than some improvised handgun. Black powder is Nitre, Sulfur, and Charcoal, in a variety of ratios, depending on the type of powder you want. Typically 65:15:20, respectfully. Sulfur is widely available as fertilizer, and Charcoal is easily made. Nitre is just common stump remover, though you can make your own with little trouble (it does require cooking large amounts of animal dung, so not exactly a fun job).
@@Riceball01 When people say guys in Pakistan are making guns by hand, it always turns out to be the stock. The hard parts are imported or made in machine shops in Kabul.
@@berserkasaurusrex4233 You can easily make your own Nitre by collecting your urine and boiling away the water. France during the Napoleonic wars used urine to supply most of their black powder after they were cut off from overseas saltpeter imports.
Skall, you are aware of tasers and pepper spray, and extendable batons, correct? That is what almost all British police carry in a society where guns are relatively uncommon. Yes, British police do have special firearms units, and police in general are also likely to have stab resistant vests and a riot shield, but for ordinary people, many already carry batons, pepper spray, and tasers, the latter two especially in the US where open carrying of weapons is far more normal than in the UK. Knives like the Bowie? Sure, people would carry that, and a variety of other knives. But anything larger than that I seriously doubt people would typically carry unless they are doing it for a specific purpose like camping where an axe would be handy, except as a fashion statement perhaps.
Smallswords are basically the fashion statements of swords, and they suck outside of fighting other smallswords. However, I'd say it depends on where you are, what you're doing, etc. There'd be a lot more necessary variety depending on the situation. For the most part, maybe people would only carry large knives in relatively safe areas(sort of like how daggers were commonly carried by all) outside of a smallsword if they were rich. If going into a riskier area, maybe a Messer or military sabre. If you're preparing for certain trouble, then whatever melee weapon you're best with and like 5 backups. Obviously they would all have backups but still, context. If there's a better chance of trouble, I agree with Skall, go for a sabre or Messer. If just chilling around the house? Maybe a large knife. Going out to the woods? Diphos! And if you don't have the money for that maybe an ax/kukri and backup knives and a couple bows or crossbows or spears(hunting stuff). As I said, context is key, and I see where Skall is coming from here and agree. Maybe not with his weapon choices because they're not my schtick, but the premise itself.
I can actually see that happening. Just so those who vehemently disapprove of firearms may sleep well at night, even an 8 year old could figure out a way to build a crossbow via historical text.
Unrealistic. I assume by "battery-powered", you mean using an electrical motor for the winding (and cocking the action, but that's easy). If you had such a crossbow that could fire repeatedly at a rate that justifies full-auto capability (let's say, >400 rpm), the power requirements would be so huge, and the batteries used so technologically advanced, that you might as well construct a proper handheld *railgun* ! Much simpler, smaller, easier to maintain etc. :)
Funnily enough, even in some gun happy states, small crossbows are illegal to own. I think in Texas you couldn't carry a blade over 3.5 inches, or a crossbow smaller than like 18 of so inches. But you conceal carry just about anything. Or even open carry full on rifles. But no, small crossbows are scary. Assassin's in fantasy games and movies use those, they must be a threat.
For inner city carry, yeah. You'd have to shell out a fair bit for a decently small high energy air pistol. Even then, they're barely super sonic, and have like effectively a 4 round clip.
George Miller in the Mad Max series has already addressed this where ammunition is scarce. They use compressed air to launch bolts, They have lances tipped with explosives. Give way signs make great shields. Everything you just showed us in this video is not going to protect you from The Doof Warrior. Flame thrower guitars beat anything you are contemplating carrying.
“Machete...won’t cost you an arm and a leg” I think some people in Africa and Brazil would disagree after losing their Rolexes and air Jordans to criminals.
We have electricity now; something that was unavailable to pre-firearms civilizations. Electricity is extremely effective at both incapacitating and killing, and inventive persons could devise of all manner of ways to deliver it from something like a stun baton to lethal capacitor bolts from something like a drone-mounted launcher.
Hypothetical aside, even if you carry a firearm, you still need hand-to-hand options in case your firearm goes down. That also includes unarmed skills. I have been carrying a concealed firearm (in accordance with state laws, of course) for a little over 11 years now, and I still carry a pocket knife that would be reasonably suitable for defensive purposes. Now, on to the hypothetical. All of my emergency kits have a tomahawk or hatchet and a sturdy fixed-blade knife for a reason. They're portable, they're useful tools, and they pair well for fighting. If all of the firearms were to suddenly disappear, they would become my everyday carry (EDC) weapons. If I could carry only one, I would probably pick a khukri. If I will be walking quite a ways, then I would probably also carry a quarterstaff or a sheleighly. What I would carry in my vehicle and in my home would be much more substantial than that, for both defense and hunting.
Everyone underrates a good staff. A quarterstaff in reasonably skilled hands is quite the fearsome weapon. Maybe it won't take limbs off the way a big kukri would, but it'd certainly turn back a bandit who had only a handaxe or a dagger.
@@123Juniiorr They take too long to get into the fight. They're great for hunting small animals, though. In personal defense, the defender is usually at an initiative deficit, while the aggressor gets to pick who, when, where, and how to engage. From the time that your brain decides to pull your weapon, to the time your weapon is ready and in the fight, should be about one second. One quarter of that second is likely to be eaten up just in the time it takes for your hand to get the signal that it needs to start moving. I'm not saying that it can't possibly be done or that there isn't any conceivable defensive scenario where the slingshot might be the right tool for the job. It's just not likely. Get it into your hand, load, draw, aim - it's just not fast enough, in my opinion. A good slingshot is a deadly weapon, it's just not conducive to being your first or main option for personal defense.
I live in Texas where we actually CAN carry swords, and while I used to carry my Colichmarde or cutlass, I now use a sword cane. Easier to carry around, helps if your knee gives out like it sometimes does, and is really easy to pull out. Plus it's still concealed.
How robust of a sword is it? Some 19th century weapons masters such as Colonel Monstery believed that a solid cane was superior to a sword cane for striking at hands and the head and for parrying
I agree with Breaden, unless you're sword cane is very stiff, I'd recommend a good solid, hardwood cane. Hickory or Oak. Put a steel but on one end, and a nice heavy steel knob on the top. Some people put lead shot, of lead rods, on the inside of the cane, but then, slightly, reduce strength, for heavier weight.
@@GallopingWalrus another method is to use a coring mandrel to bore the middle of the cane, and bond it with allthread and four nuts and epoxy. But contrary to popular belief, caneswords are very good for self defense in a concealed carry platform. A professionally made blade of high-tensile strength steel, made in the tapered stiletto point and triple edged blade format of what a canesword should actually be, with the sheath properly shimmed and bound with fiberglass or paperboard and resin; makes a fine self defense tool. However, it's shit at a distance greater than three feet. Enter the wristrocket. Aka, linear bow. That canesword just became a second part of a very useful tool for dealing with a shit situation. And it's not held back by it's puny reach. The point is, your loadout should incorporate many uses and multiple ways of being implemented in that use.
Fist to fist in a secluded place and shake hands afterwards is dead in Britain now people are not willing to man up and fight fair because there are a lot of cowards that represent them selves as what they aren’t and as such use a weapon I have already been on the receiving end of the cowardly technique of endangering my children and then use a weapon to sort me out for. Denying him his fun because he gets more of a thrill endangering other people than he does endangering himself. I don’t understand it but I am not as soft as bollocks
I’d carry a retractable baton. It would be compact enough to carry on my belt, but give me the reach, speed and focus blunt force i’d need in a hand to hand combat.
@spider love ASP is a brand name like kleenex and weed waker. I also carry one daily. Saved me more than once. I also carry a fixed blade knife daily as a backup to the baton.
@spider love Not so. ASP is actually the name of a weapons company, being Armament Systems and Procedures. They do make retractable/collapsible/telescoping batons however.
S.M. Stirling has a good series of books based on gunpowder and internal combustion failing in a single moment. The characters diversified into the various pre-gunpowder weapons based on availability of materials and skill of crafters. It's a very good book series, at least as far as the sixth or seventh book that I am up to.
Did the book "Expedient Homemade firearms" by Luty also disappear? cos if it didn't I'd just find a metalworking shop and hire them to build me a Luty gun. I've always wanted one.
@@CrüentusVI but we're talking about guns magically disappearing, but does that cover just the guns? the ammo? the tooling? the books? the knowledge of how to make them? the knowledge of the mechanics of them? Memory of them? Because if ANY of that remains, we'd just make more guns. A gun is just a mechanical device, and designing a hand-made open bolt smg would be a cakewalk for any mechanical engineering student with access to a metalworking shop.
All firearms currently in existence disappear, along with any manufactured after the magical ban. Example, a guy spends days in his workshop making for himself a musket only so see it simply fade from existence the moment it is completed to the point it can be fired.
Probably about 3 throwing knives chest carry, an Icepick and a defender dagger on each leg. A short katana on my left hip, a large buckler on my right hip, a medium sized recurve bow and quiver of 5 arrows, and a medium sized claymore with all the fixings on my back. Not to mention, I'd always wear a light chainmail shirt that covers at least my torso, and dangles over my dangler. I'd also wear light vambraces and shin gaurds both sporting spikes or studs, because that has got to be my favorite way to regain dominance in a close quarters evenly matched battle. You did say open carry...
While you are likely correct that right away bladed weapons would be the go too immediately, i feel you have discounted Crossbows. The greatest advantage of firearms is that they allow the weak to fight the strong on an even field, going back to bladed and blunt weapons ignoring very skilled individuals reverses that. So, people will look the next most equalizing thing which would be modern compound crossbows, there is already one company that makes a lever-action crossbow and the ability of hunting bows to penetrate Level II and potentially Level III Kevlar body armor you would quickly see modern manufacturing push crossbows both up and down on the power and size spectrum. You would likely end up with a dart thrower the size of a large pistol for easy concealing up to larger combat weapons. On top of all these things the weapon is easy to use and very simple to use. Estimate range, account for drop, pull trigger, reload, repeat as necessary. used in conjunction with a small sword or large knife or knives as a backup and you have everything you have with modern firearms and minimal effect on especially women who are on average significantly weaker in the upper body than men.
Just because firearms disappeared, that doesn't mean you can't use things like chlorine gas, tear gas, and other forms of chemical warfare. Nor does that disallow things like using cars or tanks to run over people. (But they require loads of fuel and maintenance and logistics to operate to be fair) And lastly . . . *WHAT ABOUT FLAMETHROWERS!?!*
I have two machetes one is super cheap that I bought when I was 12 the other was more expensive The more expensive machete broke after like the fourth time I used it, the cheap one I have used all to hell and back. Test cuts, farm work, camping I even cut down a tree with it. It's been ground down And resharpened a bunch of times by somebody who didn't know what they were doing and it is still never failed me. ( in other words I'm a typical subscriber)
Law Enforcement Units wouldn't need to conceal their weapons, so I guess polearms would be pretty common for them. Maybe a High Tech Version? lol, I dunno why, I just imagined now the return of jousting duels, but instead of horses, they use motorcycles.
I can answer this. I'm in the uk. Criminals use knives. I use a compound bow (pse brute force 70lb), Mongolian horse bow (60lb), katana, bastard sword and a Viking shield. Nothing really changes.
The book Dies the Fire by S M Stirling is about this subject. But more that explosive physics no longer works after a world wide flash of light. Great series.
7:05 "the good old machete "
...but shows us the deathblade of doom forged in mordor
Kukri's are the way to go.
just looks like a cane knife to me. they are very common.
After reading your comment I laughed when I got to the part with the Mordor blade!
@@david2odo khukuris are damn powerful
That looks like someone made a bill pike into a machete.
Just imagining this world is hilarious.
Inner city violence is mainly perpetrated by crips and bloods performing drive-by lancings. After a number of mass-swording incidents in sword-free zones, politicians in some states start banning swords with "knightly style features" such as pommels, double edged blades, and D-guards. The messer is just a California compliant sword, and everyone else in the United States calls them Swordlets for not being able to have knightly style features on their swords. Police chases are 900% more interesting because of the 70 pounds of plate armor they wear. The Canadian government looks at pictures of scary swords online and starts banning them by name, including many fantasy swords that don't even exist.
The possibilities are endless.
Hawaiian Blyat okay I admit I laughed a little too hard at this... best comment here imho!
"Drive by lancings"... i'm imagining that now and it's glorious. Thank you for this laugh lmao
> The Canadian government looks at pictures of scary swords online and starts banning them by name, including many fantasy swords that don't even exist.
My sides.
too real, please someone get me out of commiefornia so i can have foregrips 😂
Plate armor is between 30-60lbs.
I like to think he’s reaching into his pocket and pulling all these weapons out like gta
Zweihänder!
Skalla Poppins? would he float in with a kite shield? :P
*Greatsword
*Dragonslayer
Now... a bazooka or grenade launcher isn't a firearm per say....
“The good ol’...... machete”
*proceeds to pull out the craziest machete ever*
This is exactly what I was thinking.
I shall flounce around in a 17th century manner with a rapier on my hip, a big goofy hat with lots of feathers, King Louis 14th shoes, a big wig, and call myself Pimp
Tadicuslegion78 yes! 9lb goofy hats with lots of plumage
Positively dubious.
Louis the 14th actually had a collection of rifles lol
Would you throw balls?
exquisite fashion good sir. Mayhaps you should add pantaloons and the half cape. And for accessories, perhaps 2 women of ill repute.
A bag of pommels
Daniel Clark-hughes Would you throw them or use a slingshot for more power if needed?
Not since the Assault Weapons ban. Lmao
@@thomaswilkinson3241 I'll use my 40 lb (draw) sling shot
Are you insane, casually carry around a WMD!? XD
Better than that, pocket sand. Sa-sah
Obviously my choice would be the holy hand grenade of Antioch
The relic brother Maynard carries.
that couldn't be possible, since the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch is a sacred weapon of mass destruction that oly few important figures are allowed to handle.
ARX 351
Retro Gandalf looks pretty important. Who are you to judge?
T1B 2V3 beats even a knight in shining armor
@T1B 2V3 best one yet😂😂
Let's not underestimate the power of pepper spray, especially as an off hand weapon. Did you draw your weapon against someone? They are probably paying attention to the club/knife/hatchet in your main hand, not that small bottle hidden in your other hand. They won't expect you to have brought a blinding agent to a knife fight.
wanna buy a couple just in case
You r a genius lol, the one cops have is very annoying to get in your face in a fight it happen to me my vision was 90 per 100 gone lol
One flaw that pepper spray has is wind
I tried pepper spraying a dog and like pissing on a windy day it completely went to the left
There was a swordsmen who sware by carrying abag of rocks with you st all times so that would be a good idea
Goggles
I would carry Joerg Sprave. Let me show you his features!
Now that's cheating. A huge cheating.
🤣🤣🤣he will pull out a fully automatic slingshot 🤣🤣🤣 case closed (the criminal will flee in terror 😲😲)
The bowling ball catapult! ☝️💣💥
I think be would be a little heavy
Good one! 😂
On a personal note. Pulling out a bigger knife than the angry guy holding a small knife does tend to make the person with the small knife reconsider his plans.
You call that a messer? This is a messer.
this comment reminds me of tale told me by a dad, he was with group of friends getting girls and getting drunk, other group of tough guys were angry that they took the girls and wanted to fight, so his group (including him) dropped their leather jackets on the ground exposing pretty large knives they carried concealed, other group quickly backed off
like a tiny folding knife vs kukri
Arek_PL thats pretty rad
Someone with a 3 ½" blade pocket knife will have a speed advantage over someone with a 15" overall Sheffield Bowie.
All firearms disappear? Ian would end up talking about a lot more forgotten swords
Hey guys the auction house went out of business, so now we're filming in castles
The most realistic (in my mind) scenario where this would happened if gunpowder somehow became a much rarer resource and so only the army or the rich could afford to fire guns. Criminals would be more likely to rob you of bullets than to use them on you.
I love gun jesus
sword jesus just doesn't have the same ring to it.
"On this episode from Forgotten Swords, now we are gonna talk about the Tizonam.."
Imagine walking down the street and hearing "omae was mou shindeiru" as a 300 lb weeb runs at you full force with a $20 katana
all you'd have to do is parry it and the blade will probably shatter
I'd be very upset
well force does equal mass x acceleration
It would be the same as a skinny track dude with aforementioned katana, lots of mass, no speed, no mass, more/lots of speed
That wouldn't happen. Firstly, that's bad Japanese, even weebs can speak Japanese at least passably. Second, if they're going to kill someone with a Katana, they'd make sure that the Katana is fit for the job. So more likely a $2,000 Katana than a $20 turd. Then thirdly, if they're targetting you specifically, it's because you've done something to anger them, so they're not going to waste time speaking Japanese. Except maybe as a one-liner once they gut you.
Also, not all weebs are fat, nor do they all like katana.
realistic scenario of how firearms disappear:
People realise that prequel-memes are the peak of humanity and begin to view guns as "so uncivilised"
Agreed
I'll give up my AR15 for a light-saber any day of the week.
At the same time, everyone starts saying "Hello there!" as their standard greeting towards each other.
How dare you weaponize memes, they are meant for peace.
Don't lecture me, @@andrewwagner8054. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security, to my new empire
I can just imagine a bunch of weeaboos running around naruto style carrying poorly made katanas.
The Rise of the Planet of the Mall Ninjas
trying to throw 6 kunai at 6 people at the same time and aggressively growling at themselves for their failure
"damn! Their speed is unreal!" - 400 pound weeb
I'm imagining lots of lost fingers.
'The katana is the best sword ever made, mine is made of "damascus" steel and can cut through a oak tree'
Nonsense, i never go bungee jumping without my trusty greatsword. What if i got entangled in enchanted bungees that are only vulnerable to greatswords?
Go figure
You need to get a different Dungeon Master at that point.
You're a lot more likely to get tangled up in bungees if you've got a 2m stick (ie. a greatsword) strapped to you XD
(PS. I know you're joking. I'm joking too)
@@AntoineVello what if he's playing call of cthulu
@@jonathonhunt5387 Get a different game.
but what if the Bungees are inmune to greatswords?
Skallagrim: "Would be the good ol machete, they are affordable, they are reliable, (well, not the absolutely cheapest ones). But their are plenty of high quality ones that wont cost you a arm and a leg."
Me: No, but it might cost someone else an arm and a leg if they ever attack you. xD
This would not affect me, I would just continue carrying my two Zweihänders like I always do.
One is perfectly sensible, of course, but what is the second for?
A Zweihänder and a pommel would be better.
You best be powerstancing them
Does your surname happen to be Clegane?
Who here have an axe under their bed, a knife below their bed frame and a claw hammer next to their pillow?
I'd need a Cutlass in case hood-pirates tried to board my house.
Starboard!
Old dudes from "Monty Python's Meaning of Life."
I already have a Japanese katana I'm ready for this XD
That would be a good choice to be serious. You can punch up close and still swing out pretty good.
THEY BEE STEALIN THE BOOTIE
In places like Brazil, people still use Machete as self defence weapons because it's cheaper than guns
They can't shoot you if you cut off their hands..
Once saw an seventy year old man walking with a cane on one hand and a machete on the other.
Ave true to Caesar.
yea they have machete duels where they wrap one hand with a t-shirt like a makeshift gauntlet... crazy stuff lol
Machete tramontina for the win
"Imagine all guns disappeared"
*mayor of london moans loudly*
@Call me Kanye *In whatever way you want...*
London is a great example of what would be used in case guns disappeared... Lots of machete-wielding motorcyclists.
Yes this is bs. London is -absolutely- still better off without guns.
@@tornielsen2888 I mean, what's carrying a gun compared to carrying bottles of acid and hardware store supplies?... probably less chances of maiming and disfiguring.
@@cdgonepotatoes4219 I will become the acid hardware store supplies carrying straight shooting sniper just because of your challenging tone
If the Rapiers came back in to use, maybe Cloaks would come back in to fashion. It is a good argument in favor of the Rapier.
Why wait? Let's skip the middle man and bring back cloaks anyway.
I see a LOT of people who really should be covered up with cloaks, rapier or no rapier.
What would happen if guns dissapear?
Well here in Romania and probably most of Europe, nothing really. The gun laws here are so strict that nobody carries them for self-defence, rifles are mostly used for hunting, and the people who did get a license, they mostly keep them home or in their car rather than carring them.
As for what I'd carry, I'd probably go for a hand and a half sword. Can be used both one handed and single handed, can be carried easier than a longsword as it's shorter, so yeah.
Not everywhere in Europe ;) Here in the heart of Europe, we have 300,000 people with gun license (per 10,000,000 citizens), majority of whom have a concealed carry license.
@@cmdrzdenek-joerg5628 That's why I said most of Europe. I'm guessing you're from the Czech Republic?
@@alinalexandru2466 Wouldnt change much here in Canada either though I feel our rowdy southern neighbors may not take it so kindly XD.
@@nopenope8418 Already have it covered. .50 cal air rifle. Pneumatic crossbow. Boar spear. Quarterstaff. Just have to think outside the box.
tbh as someone in Europe. Yeah, we pretty much live in a state of no firearms and we doing fine.
Crossbows baby. They make some amazing compact crossbows now a days.
My thoughts exactly. Don't know that they'd be the most practical but they're the closest replacement for guns by far, particularly in terms of minimizing the relevance of arm strength. But I think melee weaponry made for a more interesting video. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, if the other person has a sword you're basically only getting one shot off, so it better either hit and hit with serious stopping power or just scare the hell out of them.
@@benjaminolson7206 They invented lever loading multi shot high powered crossbows. They are pretty cool. Look up Cobra RX ADDER
I think the concept "what if firearms disappear" is actually intended as "what if modern weapons disappear" so no modern crossbows or bows, just medieval weapon
@@thedarkknight9021 Well would all the melee weapons be made of non modern metals then?
A nice hand crossbow
Skall: "So what did civilians back then carry for defence?"
Me: "Bucklers."
Skall: *Holds up buckler
Me: _"I knew it."_
"cutting ropes"
Lloyd would like to have a word with you
Lego man: "Lindybeige!"
Made my day
* Mandeville March intensifies *
We dont want to cut our nice ropes
Oi! That was my nice bit of rope
"That's not a knife, ha ha, this is a knife"
That's not a knife, that's a spoon.
Knoife*
Blurns “ oh well, I see you’ve played knifey spoony before”
The title of the video could also be: history for beginners. What people carried for self defense purposes before the invention of firearms...
@Max Pain actually its legal to carry a sword in Texas.
Max Pain Second amendment covers _ARMS_ which covers swords. lots of other things, but swords are covered.
@Max Pain You can legally carry a sword in California too. A buddy of mine needed to walk home in gang territory one night (and he brought his sword over to show us it) and so he walked home with it on his back. No one wants to fuck with people openly wearing swords, even those with guns, go figure
I think title's appropriate
No, time are a changing and self defense isn't what it was in history.
A ponpeii style roman gladius. Pretty small, but easy to carry and use, deadly too.
If not, some type of club.
And a brace of throwing knives.
As an Australian that lives in the bush I carry an 80 pound compound bow.
Good choice!
Brother me got recurve bow in my area for 39pound
Makes sense, it seems like everything is trying to kill you there
I don't think that a compound bow (or any bow, for that matter) would be a very good self defense weapon in most situations. For hunting and open warfare, they're great, but most of the time when you're threatened by an assailant, it's going to be at short range (a few dozen feet at most), where even handguns can't always be brought to bear in time. By the time you've taken up your bow, drawn and nocked your arrow, and pulled back the bowstring to be ready to shoot, chances are you'd be stabbed multiple times, and even if you did shoot your assailant, unless you got them in the brain or upper spinal column, they might not stop. This is also why we don't see bows historically used as self defense weapons, close combat melee weapons were usually preferred until reliable firearms became available (apart from the fact that bows and quivers of arrows are bulky and heavy, of course).
@@someguy6959 fool! how will you pierce the armored hide of the dreaded emu with anything under 50 pounds of draw weight?
Pretty sure the answer to this = JoergSprave ...rapid fire crossbows
Did you mean repeating crossbows?
@@noahtackett6264 no he meant full auto assault crossbows. just look up the slingshot channel
Nah, gasoline guzzling guns! Why oh why Mad Max...
No the answere is a Pocket trebuchet. Folds for easy transport.
@@RohenBlackwolf we call them slings and no, we would use turkish hornbows or slingshots
Note to self: Put "Bungee jumping with the two handed great sword" on my bucket list. Maybe at the very end of the list.
Agreed.
Sword cuts the rope 😳
And if you survive?
A Bowie knife has always been considered a gentleman's weapon.
Not sure about that. It was once called "what happened to your gladius?"
Tank crew be like: “Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!”
Just put a giant pommel on the tank barrel. And bitch slap people with it
Catapults like the romans had or mobile balisters
Isn't that a warhammer meme?
@@kuntahouen3835 Yes.
Tank grade lance in the barrel.
if firearms disappear, what happens to artillery? I mean I'm all for bringing back the cutlass, but without a flintlock and a boat with cannons, how much rum do you think you'll get, Ya filthy land lubber?
Boil and brew your pee, and now you've got cap blast for cap gun.
That's why ninjas are the superior species, you scurvy-ridden DOG!
a lack of conventional firearms would mean we'd finally get back to shooting rockets at each other like civilized people.
Ballistas?
Trebuchets.
no one needs an assault claymore. It's not like you're ever really gonna face more than 1 ruffian at once
What, compensating for something? Do you really need more than a Short Sword?
@@kairuku6552 no, he is not compensating, he is matching
"If firearms disappeared"
I can tell you, here in the Midwest, it'd be crossbows and compound bows, maybe a few recurves, and all of them as accurate as Robin Hood
Bows are a pain to carry around, and don't work well in close quarters, where most fights take place. Imagine bringing a bow to a bar and trying to pull it out and load it as someone is stabbing you from less than a foot away. They're good if you plan an attack on someone and choose the right environment, but for self-defense blades or clubs work much better.
@@Voyager2525 thats why most Bowman carry a side knife... just look at legolas from lord of the rings for example
@@Voyager2525 there are some smaller bows like 3-4 feet which are much easier to carry around but yeah
I do love my recurve. But definitely would have my Bowie knife on my side
I second that one brother these men can’t count the tags we fill😂
Up in Skall's neck of the woods the most common improvised weapon would be the hockey stick. Down where I live where there are a lot of golf loving Koreans, golf clubs would be the improvised weapon of choice. But more specifically, Skall would probably be one of, if not the best, equipped for an all guns disappear scenario in Canada while Matt Easton would be the one for the UK, Jorg Sparve in Germany, the Metatron in Sicily, and Shad down in Oz.
A big stick aka quarterstaff. Anyone can have one, they're dead easy to make, and a sharp poke in the gut will make obstreperous people immediately reconsider their intentions.
I actually own one, it's my first and only HEMA weapon.
and Swords have a hard time beating a good staff.
Gernades!
Plus they're moderately light, could be used as a walking stick. Only problem would be indoor/tight quarters use.
Put a nail in the end for +1 damage.
'In parts of the world machete fighting is kept alive'
yeah, like London England
Jack Whittle or in Brazil
Or Italian Railways...
Are you one of those thinly vailed racists who calls london londonistain? You sound like it.
@@GreatSageSunWukong What about muslims, would you call them racist if they called London Londonistan?
Froggmeningreen yes dear I would and Muslim isn't a race BTW
Me, laughing as the mugger draws some POS wall hanger reproduction: "Oh, you sweet summer child...'
All joking aside, there's one aspect of modern life we have to remember: vehicles. Long weapons are out because of the hassle of getting in and out efficiently. I'd say gladius size or smaller would be realistic, and the seax would probably be the most popular. The traditional horizontal belt carry puts it out of the way, and there's no projecting guard to dig into your side or potentially punch through the upholstery of your car.
I work in a rough neighborhood (spent shell casings one the sidewalk rough), and company policy doesn't allow me to have a gun on the job, so I make do with a knife. I've tried all kinds of folders, bowies, and karambits, but nothing works quite as well as the seax.
I'd also encourage trying to find a good percussive weapon. Those Cold Steel Kubatons, the polypropylene things, are surprisingly devastating. And, if it's legal where you live, a quality collapsible baton. Unless you really put your weight into it, knives don't always deliver a large shock to the system, immediately atleast, and attackers might not care immediately, or might not even notice until later. Kind of the same arguments of cut vs thrust, from back in the day.
Take a look at the exact wording of the company policy and cross-reference it with your state law to see whether you can (rules-as-written, undoubtedly not as-intended) carry a cap-and-ball revolver.
Finally someone mentioned vehicles. I agree large knives would be the most popular. I think closely followed by pepper spray, with throwing knives or shuriken for those who want projectile concealed carry. All these ranged weapons would be deterrents they would have trouble killing someone for that use a bow, crossbow, or sling. Sling probably wouldn't be common even though it can be quite deadly and travels easily because this is more about fashion than actual defense and slings just aren't popular enough.
You just know there'd be a huge percentage of people trotting around with katana's.
Too many weebs.
The moment I would take my polax from the cupboard :D
poorly made Katanas, because Weebs don't have the money to buy some actual quality blades.
Little do you know I’ve mastered the praying mantis art that’s been passed down from generation to genera- *throwing knife to the brain*
@@ijbdawg9 *bows in japanese*
I've mastered the art of putting gasoline or kerosene in a super soaker and taping a torch lighter on the end of the nozzle.
I'd personally carry a shepard's axe (in Poland known as ciupaga, lovely word, pronounced roughly chu-paw-gah). Alternatively - some kind of Polish sabre, there's quite a cult over it here, to the point most older people tend to call all swords "szabelka" (diminutive from szabla - sabre).
Funnily enough - I already can cary whatever I want, as long as it's not a blade hidden in an object that doesn't look like weapon, the only legal restriction when it comes to bladed stuff. And frankly, I've used that ability a few times, going out with one of my swords to town.
rubbers3 I think I might just go to Poland for that reason 😂
Chewbacca is a lovely word, yes!
@@Disgruntled_Dave If we're on the subject of word translations, "ciupaga" comes from a verb "ciupać" (chu-pach), which is a Polish highlander dialect form of "rąbać" (rou-bach), which means "to chop". So ciupaga can be almost literally translated to chopper.
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 *shouting in wookie*
@@Disgruntled_Dave Yeah my buddy and I were looking for goat meat at at Spanish butcher one time and we didn't know the word for goat but we knew chupacabra meant goat sucker so we told the butcher "chupa" several times. We got a strange look and left only to realize later were telling him suck.
Later on on the news
*"Maniac enters at a school with a big two handed sword, the president declare that teachers should use two handed swords to protect their students"*
The US students now go to school with chain mail to avoid more deaths
Plated steel backpacks
for indoor use, I wouldn't recommend a very large sword. There are a lot of obstacles that could get in the way.
That would actually make sense, since you can actually block a sword attack with another sword.
*Sword art online opening song in the background
well considering we're talking about the modern world with no firearms I would imagine kitchen knives would be the most common before industry picks up to meet the demands for pre-modern weaponry. I can imagine though there would be a lot of development into repeating crossbows as well in such a world.
Id mount a ballista in my truck. And have some peasant use it all day when i drive around.
What y'all thinking, one, maybe two generations before HEMA becomes a grade school class?
@@seand.g423 What y'all thinking, one, maybe two generations before HEMA becomes a grade school class?
Bout as long as until pistol shooting becomes a grade school class.
So quite soon, if certain Republicans have anything to say about it :P.
Always have a well trained, monstrously sized dog by your side. Lol
#Mouse #DresdenFiles
But with a sword, or a crossbow, you can defend *yourself* AND the dog. Besides, why would you want your companion to face danger while you sit back in safety? Not very honorable or brave of you!
john Mullholand if you wanted to mug somebody, and one if your options had a 150lbs dog at their side, im guessing they would go pretty far down your list.
Yeah, no one will kill dogs
sorry I like my trained attack cat..oh right laser pointers, rats.....those too.
Society: FireArms are not here with us anymore
Me: A D-M O R T E M-I N I M I C U S ! ! !
Jinjou ni shoubu
AD PROFUNDIS
TENEBRIS
Uga buga stick ooga booga
DONA EIS REQUIEM
I would carry my trusty Sharp Astora Greatsword +10 with my Darkmoon Blade buff.
havel cosplays would be good irl
@@johncrq3594 Just watch out for the gank squads that usually consist of two dickheads with uchigatanas, and one guy throwing pyromancies at you. I encountered one in the 7-11 parking lot yesterday.
Realistically? +4 Sharp Uchi....Go-4-broke? Old Wolf Curved Great Sword +1
@@Megadeth7811 hey, just cause I carry a Sharp Uchi+4, does NOT mean I'm a gang-member! Also someone NEEDS to mod in a kriegmesser into the soulsborne games.
chaos zwei make u go bye bye
Nothing. Almost everyone would carry nothing like they do today. Most of the rest would just carry a knife because they need it for other practical reasons. For actual self defense, stun guns and pepper spray would probably dominate.
Just what i thought. Or telescope batons
Yeah, I think Skall is off base here. Even if I wanted a self defense weapon, I probably wouldn't go for a gun because there's collateral damage risk, and I definitely wouldn't go for a machete. No idea why no guns=medieval 2.0.
@@TheLithp Yeah, better question would be how wars would be fought again
Galador Based on comments here, wars would be fought with pummels.
Daniel Montes No. pommels are too terrible to use. All sides would treat to forbid them in the laws of war.
''If you are gonna go bungie jumping...you are not gonna bring your two-handed greatsword.''
As a runner-up in the two-handed category of the Bungie Sword Jumping Olympics (B.S.J.O) I am greatly offended by this unenlightened statement!
This comment is gold
Do you get extra points for jumping, cutting stuff at the bottom, and then going up?
@@beaunarum2070 But of course.
Or how about diving and cutting your rope as your momentum is stopped? Or is that how you got runner up? ;3
@@flashbackfrank8781 That is only done in the specific test for it.
In the UK all you could carry would be a handbag - and if it had anything heavy in it you would be prosecuted for carrying an offensive weapon.
I have researched what could i really bring to London if I somehow want to go back there now, when even telescopic baton, pepper spray and small pocket swiss knife are all "offensive weapon" - and walk with it undisturbed by police. Found that the only option (apart from famous "acid in a jar") are some speciffically made umbrella sfor self-defense purposes, sturdier than normal so it behave like a stick and don't break. Recommend you to google that, but perhaps even umbrellas will be banned in London soon. (Also seems that if you use heavy motorbike security chain on some guy from CZ and kill him by it, it is still considered self-defense, so there is another option - black humor...)
Are shillelaghs still banned over there? cause id just wear a suit from the 1810s and carry a loaded one with me
Uk should just disappear already
@@smilenowsmileforever4226 It'll be The Islamic State of the United Kingdom soon enough, so, yes, it may just disappear...
Rip bro
Skallagrim: Machetes, Small Axe, Messer.
Me (an intellectual): POLEAXE
Not real portable.
@@crhu319 you missed the joke
Kinda heavy
...I think you mean halberd
Halberd>every other weapon
Ad mortem
Mugger: *pulls out sword* give me your money
Me: *pulls out sword* Have at you!
@Beeper Sweeper Your comment is funny and awesome at the same time.
End him rightly
Its legal for anyone over 18 years old carry a sword in Texas...
I should move to Texas.
Is there really a way to carry a halberd other than in the hands?
Arent you also allowed to shoot someone with a shotgun in the face if he walks into your garage? Texas is probably one of the regions with the least weapons und weapon use restrictions in the western world. I would be suprised, if you werent allowed to carry a sword.
@WereSquatch you can carry a rifle in texas just for the hell of it. why would anyone care if you had a halberd?
Yes any bladed weapon, but you can't carry a club, baton, brass knuckles or other blunt weapons, however, a walking stick is legal because it's not intended as a weapon first and foremost. In Texas you can also carry a long-gun without a permit, as well as antique or cap and ball pistols, but modern pistols require a permit.
There truly are places that keeps machete fighting alive - Kraków, Poland.
Local football hooligans are masters and artists in such combat.
big cities are sometimes named concrete jungles, cracovia people just put that literaly :D
Gernades!
Im from the uk and I can tell u there is no art or glamour about machete fights ive experienced a machete being pulled on me and ive seen friends get cut /chopped /stabbed its not nice
I guess nothing beats Rwanda in 94th....
That used to be pretty common in the Philippines...I've heard on a few of their smaller islands, far from Manila & other urban areas, men still fight with machete-type weapons.
This is always an interesting type of question. The whole "what if?" scenario. I've always wondered, similar to the scenario here, what would a modern day set of armor look like? No guns in this scenario either so not the same stuff we have now. But what would it look like? Both a practical military set and a fancy knight's armor to show off their position?
I'd just love to see the modern militaries jumping out of modern transports with kevlar and radios and drawing Swords and Bows. Better yet a tank with a Ballista on top. XD
Modern militaries would probably go revisit some treaties. Less lethal gases may be a popular choice. Electricity weapons, think tasers but with longer periods of action, possibly instant KOs, and with much longer ranges, may also prove popular. Maybe sound weapons, that temporarily deafen people.
At the moment, if guns disappeared, Militaries wouldn't have access to And good Electric or Sonic weapons and Gas wouldn't take the place of a firearm, it would be used in tandem with the Gun replacement. In the long term I expect Magnetic Weapons would be the ideal replacement.
Problem is Kevlar doesn't protect you all that well from sword strikes, only bullets from firearms, so really they'd go back to ordering suits of plate armor to defend against swords lol
Mad jack was very successful with his sword in WW2 and his bow
Now that would be interesting. But a stun-baton instead of a sword sounds ... much more useful. And for projectile weapons you can use air instead of gunpowder. Air rifles had been use since more than 400 year or so for killing. And the design is like 2000 years old. Would work just fine in a modern world.
A golf ball in a sock, my framing hammer, my Hudson Bay birds-head axe.
Probably wooden staff, its really good weapon and tool for all around purpose
Bo and Jo staffs really are amazing
staves are a little hard to use, especially in tight quarters. but, if you can detach them into two parts, you can have a staff in wide areas, and dual sticks like in filipino martial arts.
or, you could always get tonfas. good for defense, and improves attack, but with a lack of range.
I'm surprised he didn't mention it
8:21 Hmm, highly decorated lightsaber, I would love to have that :)
I'm in the UK, this video is strange to me, I carry my keys, my purse and my phone.
When I was a kid I carried a BBQ fork, because thats how kids roll, never had to poke anyone with it..
Once saw a man pull a kitchen knife out on a old lady, some guy just walked stright up behind him, picked him up and body slammed him into the pavement, he didn't get up again.
@@astrophobia6049 Yeah its a big difference, here in Europe noone walks around with the thought that at any time someone could pull out a gun.
Because thats not the case, noone here has a gun. The only real, functional guns I ever saw were probably the ones police officers carry and thats about it.
In the US though, someone pulling out a gun in public is very much a real possibility. So people do have to keep that in mind and it suddenly makes a lot more sense to carry one yourself.
The problem feeds into itself in a way, but because of that it does make more sense for everyone to carry a weapon in public.
The funny part is that in the areas where having a gun pulled on you might be an issue, no one is allowed to carry guns (ex: New York, Chicago)
@@TheSpeep It all depends on the area, though. In high crime places, then I would be worried about someone pulling a weapon out on me, but I live in an area with very low crime. You never know what will happen since danger strikes when you least expect it, so stay safe.
This post reeks of Londonite. In the country, you see farmer’s sons with an under-over on their shoulder at the market and nobody bats an eyelid.
IamCombustible thats a shotgun, people dont don't kill each other with shotguns, they don't go walking around with one under their coat they are not practical, my grandmother had a shotgun and she lived in Surrey it was for clay pigeon shooting, my brother had a friend with a gun license he had everything the law allowed him to have at the time and carried a small machine gun in his car, but we are not paranoid about guns.
You do hear about people getting shot, there was a driveby last week but its normally just gangs killing each other so no ones bothered, let them kill each other, sometimes theres mistaken identity but most people think thats rare, more so then the news makes out, its more like that person isn't known to the police yet so its assumed thry are innocent as they don't have a criminal record.
French people have plenty of guns, that country doesn't feel unsafe, it doesn't really feel any different to the UK in that respect, and I have plenty of relatives in Canada, plenty of places there where people leave their doors unlocked, guns are for hunting.
Americans seem to have some special mentality, paranoia even that makes them so trigger happy, they are up there with Brazil and South Africa, yet those two you can see reasons behind more.
8:25, Wait, we'd have light sabers?! I'm in. ;)
Goattacular You caught that too? Lol.
They'd be convenient to carry when deactivated: just hang 'em on your belt.
"The good old machete"
*Pulls out an enormous chopper with a very broad blade*
Walking sticks would probably be the norm if this happened
Hidden sword-canes
Or just quarterstaff brutality
I have a polypropylene walking stick
Ones with a steel pommel end, lightens up the stick for whipping it around and fighting for space and then you have the heavy end for using like a mace to end them rightly.
Manners... (blinds start closing)
Maketh... (door bolt locks)
Man... (crash of a glass mug breaking over a dudes head)
1:40 The 2015 Solingen catalogue( also called The Sword: form and thought) has a buckler very similar to those in Talhoffer Fechtbücher.
I found pictures of it !
www.armeemuseum.de/de/45-sammlungen/ausgewaehlte-objekte/ausgewaehlte-objekte-beschreibung/1018-objekt-buckler-ambras.html
SM Stirling's "Dies the Fire" is a book series where all combustion (guns and engines) stops working. The first 3 books are great.
Interesting concept.
How do they keep warm at winter?
@@Wavemaninawe it's only high pressure combustion like gunpowder and engines. Fire still burns at regular temperatures.
Robert Adducci
Ah, loopholing. 😄
Robert Adducci I’m partial to Nantucket
I was looking for this comment, one of my favorite series.
A slingshot, forget swords, I can fire an arrow, a ball bearing or even a rock, with decent reload speed.
28 oz Vaughn framing hammer.
In that case, Swordsticks and hidden knifes would definetely come in to fashion way more tha they are these days
A large chainsaw is the most practical
Or even better, a giant chainsaw hand.
Who needs hands when you have a chainsaw.
Polearm chsinsaw :)
GROOVY
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@@lassim3111 So pretty much tricked Bloodborne's Whirligig Saw?
As far as people making guns for themselves there is a neat episode of Forgotten Weapons where he looks at a couple of guns seized from poachers in Africa that had been home-made. They were not incredibly sophisticated, but if people still had access to machine shops there would be a steady supply of guns neverending.
I have no idea how easy it is to make black powder or nitrocellulose.
Machine shop? There's people in parts of Pakistan that make guns using only hand tools and they can look almost as good as one made in an actual factory.
Look at some of the handmade guns in Australia. A lot of then are honestly masterfully made.
People make working guns inside of prisons. Anyone with access to a stocked machine shop can do far better than some improvised handgun.
Black powder is Nitre, Sulfur, and Charcoal, in a variety of ratios, depending on the type of powder you want. Typically 65:15:20, respectfully. Sulfur is widely available as fertilizer, and Charcoal is easily made. Nitre is just common stump remover, though you can make your own with little trouble (it does require cooking large amounts of animal dung, so not exactly a fun job).
@@Riceball01 When people say guys in Pakistan are making guns by hand, it always turns out to be the stock. The hard parts are imported or made in machine shops in Kabul.
@@berserkasaurusrex4233 You can easily make your own Nitre by collecting your urine and boiling away the water. France during the Napoleonic wars used urine to supply most of their black powder after they were cut off from overseas saltpeter imports.
Skall, you are aware of tasers and pepper spray, and extendable batons, correct? That is what almost all British police carry in a society where guns are relatively uncommon. Yes, British police do have special firearms units, and police in general are also likely to have stab resistant vests and a riot shield, but for ordinary people, many already carry batons, pepper spray, and tasers, the latter two especially in the US where open carrying of weapons is far more normal than in the UK.
Knives like the Bowie? Sure, people would carry that, and a variety of other knives. But anything larger than that I seriously doubt people would typically carry unless they are doing it for a specific purpose like camping where an axe would be handy, except as a fashion statement perhaps.
So a guy with a crossbow could be king in England these days?
Berserkasaurus Rex crossbows are legal in England tho
Smallswords are basically the fashion statements of swords, and they suck outside of fighting other smallswords.
However, I'd say it depends on where you are, what you're doing, etc. There'd be a lot more necessary variety depending on the situation. For the most part, maybe people would only carry large knives in relatively safe areas(sort of like how daggers were commonly carried by all) outside of a smallsword if they were rich. If going into a riskier area, maybe a Messer or military sabre. If you're preparing for certain trouble, then whatever melee weapon you're best with and like 5 backups. Obviously they would all have backups but still, context. If there's a better chance of trouble, I agree with Skall, go for a sabre or Messer. If just chilling around the house? Maybe a large knife. Going out to the woods? Diphos! And if you don't have the money for that maybe an ax/kukri and backup knives and a couple bows or crossbows or spears(hunting stuff).
As I said, context is key, and I see where Skall is coming from here and agree. Maybe not with his weapon choices because they're not my schtick, but the premise itself.
Supreme resellers are grabbing up the new special edition seax.
Actually a seax would be a great choice. Or a cutlass, machete, kukri or another single-edged, short sword / long knife.
And more importantly, my craft will come back to the top. Blacksmiths need your business people.
Blacksmith here, I wiil carry a robert baratheon warhammer....
Pistol crossbow all day. Repeating action, maybe battery powered and full auto. Jörg Sprave would be the Henry Colt of a word without firearms.
I can actually see that happening. Just so those who vehemently disapprove of firearms may sleep well at night, even an 8 year old could figure out a way to build a crossbow via historical text.
SAMUEL Colt, and Benjamin T. Henry, LOL.
@@jimnickles2347 XD you are right. might as well mix in a John Moses ^^
Unrealistic. I assume by "battery-powered", you mean using an electrical motor for the winding (and cocking the action, but that's easy). If you had such a crossbow that could fire repeatedly at a rate that justifies full-auto capability (let's say, >400 rpm), the power requirements would be so huge, and the batteries used so technologically advanced, that you might as well construct a proper handheld *railgun* !
Much simpler, smaller, easier to maintain etc. :)
Cool. I think that compact pistol crossbows would quickly become all the rage, though.
Funnily enough, even in some gun happy states, small crossbows are illegal to own. I think in Texas you couldn't carry a blade over 3.5 inches, or a crossbow smaller than like 18 of so inches. But you conceal carry just about anything. Or even open carry full on rifles. But no, small crossbows are scary. Assassin's in fantasy games and movies use those, they must be a threat.
Pretty sure ballistic knives are illegal across most of the states. And high energy air pistols/rifles are much more effective.
For inner city carry, yeah. You'd have to shell out a fair bit for a decently small high energy air pistol. Even then, they're barely super sonic, and have like effectively a 4 round clip.
Waylander...
For real though, I'd say steel batons would be more popular. Easy to use and maintain and its okay everywhere.
Two of my favorite sentences of this video.
"Wet in the panties"
Using a knife to "cut free an entangled animal"
In Texas, you can actually carry a sword legally.
another reason to move...
Alec Fortescue Plus our food is amazing.
Same with Idaho, so long as you're open carrying it nobody really cares
@@shadownet7026 has anyone ever concealed carried a sword?
Im from the UK I have guns etc legally, if I win lotto I will move to texas after I buy citizenship for my family
George Miller in the Mad Max series has already addressed this where ammunition is scarce. They use compressed air to launch bolts, They have lances tipped with explosives. Give way signs make great shields. Everything you just showed us in this video is not going to protect you from The Doof Warrior. Flame thrower guitars beat anything you are contemplating carrying.
“Machete...won’t cost you an arm and a leg”
I think some people in Africa and Brazil would disagree after losing their Rolexes and air Jordans to criminals.
This channel never disappoints. Always awesome topics and content.
We have electricity now; something that was unavailable to pre-firearms civilizations. Electricity is extremely effective at both incapacitating and killing, and inventive persons could devise of all manner of ways to deliver it from something like a stun baton to lethal capacitor bolts from something like a drone-mounted launcher.
Hypothetical aside, even if you carry a firearm, you still need hand-to-hand options in case your firearm goes down. That also includes unarmed skills. I have been carrying a concealed firearm (in accordance with state laws, of course) for a little over 11 years now, and I still carry a pocket knife that would be reasonably suitable for defensive purposes.
Now, on to the hypothetical. All of my emergency kits have a tomahawk or hatchet and a sturdy fixed-blade knife for a reason. They're portable, they're useful tools, and they pair well for fighting. If all of the firearms were to suddenly disappear, they would become my everyday carry (EDC) weapons. If I could carry only one, I would probably pick a khukri. If I will be walking quite a ways, then I would probably also carry a quarterstaff or a sheleighly. What I would carry in my vehicle and in my home would be much more substantial than that, for both defense and hunting.
Everyone underrates a good staff. A quarterstaff in reasonably skilled hands is quite the fearsome weapon. Maybe it won't take limbs off the way a big kukri would, but it'd certainly turn back a bandit who had only a handaxe or a dagger.
crossbows are technically not really firearms so I would carry one
@@Dat_Stoner_Kidd
To carry around every day when out in public? How small of a crossbow did you have in mind?
@@richard6133 what about the good old slingshot?
@@123Juniiorr
They take too long to get into the fight. They're great for hunting small animals, though. In personal defense, the defender is usually at an initiative deficit, while the aggressor gets to pick who, when, where, and how to engage. From the time that your brain decides to pull your weapon, to the time your weapon is ready and in the fight, should be about one second. One quarter of that second is likely to be eaten up just in the time it takes for your hand to get the signal that it needs to start moving. I'm not saying that it can't possibly be done or that there isn't any conceivable defensive scenario where the slingshot might be the right tool for the job. It's just not likely. Get it into your hand, load, draw, aim - it's just not fast enough, in my opinion. A good slingshot is a deadly weapon, it's just not conducive to being your first or main option for personal defense.
I live in Texas where we actually CAN carry swords, and while I used to carry my Colichmarde or cutlass, I now use a sword cane. Easier to carry around, helps if your knee gives out like it sometimes does, and is really easy to pull out. Plus it's still concealed.
How robust of a sword is it? Some 19th century weapons masters such as Colonel Monstery believed that a solid cane was superior to a sword cane for striking at hands and the head and for parrying
I agree with Breaden, unless you're sword cane is very stiff, I'd recommend a good solid, hardwood cane. Hickory or Oak. Put a steel but on one end, and a nice heavy steel knob on the top. Some people put lead shot, of lead rods, on the inside of the cane, but then, slightly, reduce strength, for heavier weight.
@@GallopingWalrus another method is to use a coring mandrel to bore the middle of the cane, and bond it with allthread and four nuts and epoxy. But contrary to popular belief, caneswords are very good for self defense in a concealed carry platform. A professionally made blade of high-tensile strength steel, made in the tapered stiletto point and triple edged blade format of what a canesword should actually be, with the sheath properly shimmed and bound with fiberglass or paperboard and resin; makes a fine self defense tool. However, it's shit at a distance greater than three feet. Enter the wristrocket. Aka, linear bow. That canesword just became a second part of a very useful tool for dealing with a shit situation. And it's not held back by it's puny reach. The point is, your loadout should incorporate many uses and multiple ways of being implemented in that use.
Only true alpha male with hairy chest can carry the ultimate weapon: "the knoif"
Kukuri baby.
Fist to fist in a secluded place and shake hands afterwards is dead in Britain now people are not willing to man up and fight fair because there are a lot of cowards that represent them selves as what they aren’t and as such use a weapon I have already been on the receiving end of the cowardly technique of endangering my children and then use a weapon to sort me out for. Denying him his fun because he gets more of a thrill endangering other people than he does endangering himself. I don’t understand it but I am not as soft as bollocks
*Crocodile Dundee approves*
3:34 cutting ropes?!?! lindybeige would be very disappointed in you...
Hey we lost guns, not all industrial production.
I’d carry a retractable baton.
It would be compact enough to carry on my belt, but give me the reach, speed and focus blunt force i’d need in a hand to hand combat.
@spider love ASP is a brand name like kleenex and weed waker. I also carry one daily. Saved me more than once. I also carry a fixed blade knife daily as a backup to the baton.
@spider love Not so. ASP is actually the name of a weapons company, being Armament Systems and Procedures.
They do make retractable/collapsible/telescoping batons however.
I own a telescoping baton but I can't make heads or tails of if it's legal to carry where I am
@@biohazard724 Let me guess, you life in Germany?
@@cavareenvius7886 I live in the US actually
4:22 B.J. Blaskowicz: "There's a lot of things you can do with a hatchet...and a Nazi."
S.M. Stirling has a good series of books based on gunpowder and internal combustion failing in a single moment. The characters diversified into the various pre-gunpowder weapons based on availability of materials and skill of crafters. It's a very good book series, at least as far as the sixth or seventh book that I am up to.
I that happened the John Wick movies would be very different
Although I don't get the "lots of guns" quote from the movie. Maybe lots of magazines would work.
It'd be pretty damn brutal and elegant
John Snow Wick (there is a video of it xd)
Did the book "Expedient Homemade firearms" by Luty also disappear? cos if it didn't I'd just find a metalworking shop and hire them to build me a Luty gun. I've always wanted one.
That was the whole point at the start, even they were banned people would make them themselves.
People who do illegal things don’t care about the law
@@CrüentusVI but we're talking about guns magically disappearing, but does that cover just the guns? the ammo? the tooling? the books? the knowledge of how to make them? the knowledge of the mechanics of them? Memory of them? Because if ANY of that remains, we'd just make more guns. A gun is just a mechanical device, and designing a hand-made open bolt smg would be a cakewalk for any mechanical engineering student with access to a metalworking shop.
All firearms currently in existence disappear, along with any manufactured after the magical ban. Example, a guy spends days in his workshop making for himself a musket only so see it simply fade from existence the moment it is completed to the point it can be fired.
@@Devin_Stromgren Rocket launchers then.
What about a rapier? That could be a good choice, I think.
It was used in dueling and active protection for a reason. King of dueling.
Probably about 3 throwing knives chest carry, an Icepick and a defender dagger on each leg. A short katana on my left hip, a large buckler on my right hip, a medium sized recurve bow and quiver of 5 arrows, and a medium sized claymore with all the fixings on my back. Not to mention, I'd always wear a light chainmail shirt that covers at least my torso, and dangles over my dangler. I'd also wear light vambraces and shin gaurds both sporting spikes or studs, because that has got to be my favorite way to regain dominance in a close quarters evenly matched battle.
You did say open carry...
Was expecting that kind of comment.
While you are likely correct that right away bladed weapons would be the go too immediately, i feel you have discounted Crossbows.
The greatest advantage of firearms is that they allow the weak to fight the strong on an even field, going back to bladed and blunt weapons ignoring very skilled individuals reverses that. So, people will look the next most equalizing thing which would be modern compound crossbows, there is already one company that makes a lever-action crossbow and the ability of hunting bows to penetrate Level II and potentially Level III Kevlar body armor you would quickly see modern manufacturing push crossbows both up and down on the power and size spectrum.
You would likely end up with a dart thrower the size of a large pistol for easy concealing up to larger combat weapons. On top of all these things the weapon is easy to use and very simple to use.
Estimate range, account for drop, pull trigger, reload, repeat as necessary. used in conjunction with a small sword or large knife or knives as a backup and you have everything you have with modern firearms and minimal effect on especially women who are on average significantly weaker in the upper body than men.
Just because firearms disappeared, that doesn't mean you can't use things like chlorine gas, tear gas, and other forms of chemical warfare. Nor does that disallow things like using cars or tanks to run over people. (But they require loads of fuel and maintenance and logistics to operate to be fair) And lastly . . . *WHAT ABOUT FLAMETHROWERS!?!*
You can't win a war without infantry.
What about dragons?
or fully automatic crossbow
@@123Juniiorr repeating crossbow just hit v5... It turned into automatic crossbow v5 lol
Chemical weapons and flamethrowers are crap for personal protection, though, which is what he was discussing.
Great now I have to go make a video bungee jumping with a 2 handed broad sword.
I have two machetes one is super cheap that I bought when I was 12 the other was more expensive
The more expensive machete broke after like the fourth time I used it, the cheap one I have used all to hell and back. Test cuts, farm work, camping I even cut down a tree with it. It's been ground down And resharpened a bunch of times by somebody who didn't know what they were doing and it is still never failed me.
( in other words I'm a typical subscriber)
Law Enforcement Units wouldn't need to conceal their weapons, so I guess polearms would be pretty common for them. Maybe a High Tech Version?
lol, I dunno why, I just imagined now the return of jousting duels, but instead of horses, they use motorcycles.
There was a movie made of that in the 1970's, by George Romero, called "Knightriders"
OOOH!! Idea: walking sticks with bayonet lugs and a sword/spade bayonet at one's side.
I can answer this. I'm in the uk. Criminals use knives. I use a compound bow (pse brute force 70lb), Mongolian horse bow (60lb), katana, bastard sword and a Viking shield. Nothing really changes.
I have one of those swords. It's also called hand and a half, correct?
The book Dies the Fire by S M Stirling is about this subject. But more that explosive physics no longer works after a world wide flash of light. Great series.