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Snake Smuggler
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Nanci
Alien Lover
I'm just saying, since I drive through GA with cornsnakes in my possession routinely, I would like to CMA and be reasonably prepared with at least a copy of federal regulations and as much record-keeping about the snakes' origins as I have, as well as following transportation regulations as defined by the Lacey Act.
And keep the box out of sight and my mouth shut.
And keep the box out of sight and my mouth shut.
fyrefocks
Nate lover
You'd think that, Chip, but no. It's the stricter law that wins. Like right now in California, even though it's legal to grow marijuana with a state license, the feds could arrest any grower any time they wanted to because it's still federally illegal. Goes with what you thought, right? But if it ever finally becomes federally legal to smoke and grow pot, but some stupid state, we'll use Idaho as an example, says that smoking is still illegal, then the state law wins out.
In Delaware all you need is a permit to own an exotic snake. But in my county you can't get the permit without an acre of land. So technically my hogs are illegal because I don't have an acre. Even if the state gave me a permit without checking my land size, it would still be my fault if I got caught.
Anyway, those are just examples. But that's how it works.
In Delaware all you need is a permit to own an exotic snake. But in my county you can't get the permit without an acre of land. So technically my hogs are illegal because I don't have an acre. Even if the state gave me a permit without checking my land size, it would still be my fault if I got caught.
Anyway, those are just examples. But that's how it works.
kathylove
Pragmatic & Logical
Now the feds want to make macaws illegal...
They want to list 4 species (military, hyacinth, great green, and scarlet) on the US Endangered Species Act. The wild caught trade has already been stopped for years in the US, both by the 1992 Wild Bird Conservation Act, and international CITES laws. So the only thing this would accomplish is to stop breeders and owners from taking their pets (or selling captive born babies) across state lines without lots of federal red tape. While that might discourage people from keeping or breeding those species, how does it help conservation - or our poor, sagging economy?
Don't think this doesn't affect you because you don't keep birds or macaws. Anytime silly nonsense like this is passed, it affects ALL of us indirectly, whether through a few more people being out of work, or just adding to the over regulated world we already live in, and becoming more models for more bureaucrats to copy in the future.
Why is it that when local, state, and federal governments complain that they don't have enough funds to give us the services we REALLY need, they still find the funds to make new laws and regulations, without a thought as to what they cost in making, enforcing, and loss to the economy or to personal choice and freedom?
They want to list 4 species (military, hyacinth, great green, and scarlet) on the US Endangered Species Act. The wild caught trade has already been stopped for years in the US, both by the 1992 Wild Bird Conservation Act, and international CITES laws. So the only thing this would accomplish is to stop breeders and owners from taking their pets (or selling captive born babies) across state lines without lots of federal red tape. While that might discourage people from keeping or breeding those species, how does it help conservation - or our poor, sagging economy?
Don't think this doesn't affect you because you don't keep birds or macaws. Anytime silly nonsense like this is passed, it affects ALL of us indirectly, whether through a few more people being out of work, or just adding to the over regulated world we already live in, and becoming more models for more bureaucrats to copy in the future.
Why is it that when local, state, and federal governments complain that they don't have enough funds to give us the services we REALLY need, they still find the funds to make new laws and regulations, without a thought as to what they cost in making, enforcing, and loss to the economy or to personal choice and freedom?