“Bro, that sword isn’t a so-called “ninja” sword. That sword can only cut through 2 bodies. A real ninja sword could easily do 5 bodies. All your arguments are therefore invalid. QED.”
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Soooo…you called the protective storage receptacle a “sheath” when it’s clearly a “scabbard,” which tells me you don’t know enough to even have an opinion about whether it should be legal or not!
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Are the swords the “moors” used considered sabers?
Swords are not something I’m super knowledgeable about.
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I’ll have to start baking my ninja sword into a baguette like Paul the Samurai.
But of course, while searching for a PTS image, I discover someone did this in real life already. 
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Sigh, swords are complicated. Something something category debates.
In the broadest understanding, katanas could be categorized as sabers, which are (again, in the broadest understanding) any curved, single-edged weapon optimized for cutting over thrusting. There are certainly narrower conceptions of what constitutes a saber – Wikipedia gives the (over-narrow, in my opinion) definition:
a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods.
Of course, you can find military sabers that have straight edges. And many, many sabers, though they have a primary “true” edge, also have some portion of their false edge sharpened.
Certainly I would say that many swordists would take a relatively broad view of what constitutes a saber and consider things like the shamshir and the dao to be sabers – but would probably exclude backswords with straight edges (and refer to such as “backswords” or some other classification depending on their construction). That said, there are sword nerds who get absolutely up in arms about which words get applied to which weapons (ask me some time about “claymore”).
Katanas are often treated conceptually as kind of their own thing, since they have such a deep (and relatively insular) history, so it’s not without good reason that someone might exclude them from even a reasonably broad definition of “saber”.
(Even the word “katana” is complicated, since in English it sometimes specifically refers to the evolution of the Japanese longsword intended to be worn edge-up (in contrast to the edge-down tachi), and sometimes refers to the single-edged Japanese sword broadly (which some folks would insist are correctly referred to categorically as nihonto, though even this is additionally complicated since nihonto could properly include double-edge swords like tsurugi).
(Another fun and interesting fact: there is no known historical precedent for a (specifically) “ninja sword”. This sometimes gets referred to as a ninjato and generally is as described in the article: a wakizashi-length sword with a single edge, tanto point, and straight blade. But the evidence seems to suggest that this is a 20th century invention with no known historical counterpart.)
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So then not only was Smilodon not actually a tiger, it wasn’t even properly saber-toothed. 
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A former friend of mine purchased a claymore at a Renaissance Faire. Whilst swinging it around he managed to snap it in half against a window ledge. I told him that he now had a claybeg instead of a claymore. He didn’t get my joke at all.
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Ask the Master.
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Not at all. You have stabby things and slashy things and things that can do both.
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It is not to regulate sales (although it does) it prohibits ownership, except in certain circumstances, (all these knives are already prohibited to carry in public). So I cannot have my stabby, cutty things hanging on the wall or stuck at the back of the wardrobe – and I am okay with that.
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From that pdf: “Ninja Sword Claim Form” might be one of the best names for a piece of paperwork I’ve seen in a long while, even if it’s the opposite of what you might expect. (Instead of claiming your government-supplied sword, it’s getting compensation for surrendering one)
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Ninja Sword Claim Form sounds like it could be an early Fall song.
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