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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 222373, member: 25&quot;]<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ivory+law+maine&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-b" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ivory+law+maine&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-b" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=ivory+law+massachusetts&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-b</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Plenty to read here. It seems Massachusetts is considering a law. Conn and Vt aready have them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The typical form is not to make Ivory illegal to own or confiscatable, just to ban the domestic sale of ivory items, on top of the existing legislation covering international sales. Accquistion by gift or inheritance should be OK. There is often little discrimination about antique ivory or such stringent restrictions they amount to a <i>de facto</i> ban. A long hike through the northwoods to Canada to smuggle the item out of the US is probably not something most would consider worthwhile.</p><p><br /></p><p>Consider it a game of musical chairs. Do you want to be the last one standing holding the baby with no-where to go. I was thinking $300 to $500, far less than 20 years ago, but possibly a level at which the chance of a quick sale or adding the item to your man-cave might be a tolerable risk. If you have a wife or children, they may not fancy you buying the item.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion such US laws are futile crowd pleasers, with no downside apart from a few freaky antique dealers, and they don&#039;t have all that many votes. They will bring no long dead elephants back to life, and the main trade is with the far east; the USA could be totally ivory free and the level of poaching would not change. Rampant corruption and lack of government control over much territory fuels the trade, and the only effective solution would be the military occupation and effective policing of much of Africa. This would be rather too expensive to contemplate. It is said that the trade funds terrorism, but it mostly buys arms and ammunitionfor local criminality and insurgency, and keeps the West African Mercedes Benz dealers happy and fat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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