The Australasian Knife Collectors Club (AKC) also registered as National Knife Collectors -Australia,  is an established and nationally recognised knife collectors and knife making organisation.  The A.K.C. provides credentials for financial members, as proof of bone fide collection interests.

Club Aims - Objective 6: "strive to protect the interests of knife collectors"

The AKC CLUB (via SPENCER  IMPORTS from mid-1993 to mid-1998 and under it's own banner Australiasian Knife Collectors Club since then)  has actively contested knife bans, double-edged knives in particular, associated with anti-knife legislation. Periodic reports on this issue have appeared in the AKC CLUB members'  bulletins and via EDGEMASTER columns in AUSTRALIAN SHOOTERS JOURNAL/Australian Shooter  (the official magazine of the SSAA - Sporting Shooters Association of Australia). Keith Spencer has provided  knife articles for this magazine since 1988.  Through Knives Australia magazine, in publication since 2001, and available by both subscrption or from newstands across Australia has continued to take actively promote responsible knife usage and responsible knife legislation!

In order for a club to accomplish bona fide recognition for its members, it is necessary for any organization to establish credibility by what it does, what it endeavours to do, and how it goes about its business over a period of time. The following overview offers such explanation.

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Registered in 1990,  the Australasian Knife Collectors (AKC) Club despatched its first bulletin in April 1991 from which the original 171 foundation members were recorded. The face of the AKC has changed with the times and according to the will of a steadily growing membership, but has unerringly adhered to the original precepts and tenets under the aims and objectives of this fundamentally Australian organization. 

Conceived to cater for the needs and interests of collectors, users, makers and knife aficionados,  and with over 5000 members nation-wid, the AKC  is now well and truly tried and proved. 

Outside of the membership and custom crafted knife industry, the activities of the AKC have become increasingly well known, particularly by State and Federal authorities, such as Australian Custom Service, Justice and Police Departments.

Victoria had the most stringent anti-knife laws of all states. Other states in Australia then patterned their respective anti-knife legislation on the Victorian model. The Victorian Department of Justice recognized the Australasian Knife Collectors Club (A.K.C.) as a bona fide organization representing bona fide knife collectors and knife-makers back in 1998. 

Since then, each Australian State has implimented it's own anti-knife legislation, under the banner of  various 'weapons control' acts. The Australasian Knife Collectors Club has continued to be actively involved by deputations and submissions to relevent Government Agencies,  disseminating information to members, assisting individual members, and continuing to present knife ownership in a postive and appropriate manner through its publications and activities.

As of July 2004,  Sword ownership in Victoria is prohibited without a valid exemption. AKC has an appropriate exemption for sword ownership in Victoria. AKC members travelling to or from Victoria with swords should ensure they carry their AKC membership card as proof of their exemption while in that State. The AKC continues to hold an exemption for dagger (double-edged knife) ownership in Victoria also - which allows our Victorian members to collect on a 'level-playing ' field with our members living i other States of Australia.