Any object that is capable of (or appears to be capable of) shooting projectiles and causing injury, such as:

• Firearms of all types (pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, etc.);
• Firearm replicas or imitations;
• Firearm component parts (excluding telescopic sighting devices and sights);
• Air pistols and air rifles;
• Signal flare pistols;
• Alarm pistols;
• Toy guns of all types;
• Ball-bearing guns;
• Industrial bolt and nail guns;
• Crossbows;
• Slings;
• Underwater hunting weapons;
• Cattle slaughter pistols;
• Stun or shocking devices, e.g. cattle prods, ballistic conducted energy weapons (taser);
• Lighters shaped like a firearm;

Pointed or bladed articles capable of causing injury, such as:

• Axes and hatchets;
• Bows and arrows;
• Crampons;
• Harpoons and spears;
• Ice axes and ice picks;
• Ice skates;
• Lockable or flick knives with blades of any length;
• Knives, including ceremonial knives, with blades of more than 6 cm, made of metal or any other material strong enough to be used as a potential weapon;
• Meat cleavers;
• Machetes;
• Open razors and blades (excluding safety or disposable razors with blades enclosed in cartridge);
• Sabres, swords and swordsticks;
• Scalpels;
• Scissors with blades more than 6 cm in length;
• Ski and walking/hiking poles;
• Throwing stars (shurikens);
• Professional tools that have the potential to be used as a pointed or edged weapon, e.g. drills and drill bits, box cutters, utility knives, saws of all kinds, screwdrivers, crowbars, hammers, pliers, wrenches/spanners, blow-torches, etc.;

Any blunt instrument capable of causing injury, including:

• Baseball and softball bats;
• Clubs or batons, rigid or flexible (e.g. billy clubs, blackjacks, nightsticks and batons);
• Cricket bats;
• Golf clubs;
• Hockey sticks;
• Lacrosse sticks;
• Kayak and canoe paddles;
• Skateboards;
• Billiard, snooker and pool cues;
• Fishing rods;
• Martial arts equipment, e.g. knuckledusters, clubs, coshes, nunchakus, kubatons, kubasaunts;

Any explosive or highly combustible substances which pose a risk to the health of passengers and crew or the security/safety of aircraft or property, including:

• Ammunition;
• Blasting caps;
• Detonators and fuses;
• Explosives and explosive devices;
• Replica or imitation explosive material or devices;
• Mines and other explosive military stores;
• Grenades of all types;
• Gas and gas containers (e.g. butane; propane; acetylene; oxygen) in large volume;
• Fireworks; flares (in any form) and other pyrotechnics (including party poppers and toy caps);
• Non-safety matches;• Smoke generating canisters or cartridges;
• Flammable liquid fuel (e.g. petrol/gasoline; diesel; lighter fluid; alcohol; ethanol);
• Aerosol spray paint;
• Turpentine and paint thinner;
• Alcoholic beverages exceeding 70 % by volume (140 % proof);

Any chemical or toxic substances which pose a risk to the health of passengers and crew or the security or safety of aircraft or property, including:

• Acids and alkalis (e.g. spillable ‘wet’ batteries);
• Corrosive or bleaching substances (e.g. mercury, chlorine);
• Disabling or incapacitating sprays (e.g. mace, pepper spray, tear gas);
• Radioactive material (e.g. medicinal or commercial isotopes);

Poisons

• Infectious or biological hazardous material (e.g. infected blood, bacteria and viruses);
• Material capable of spontaneous ignition or combustion;
• Fire extinguishers.