Take their tusks and fit them with `faux-ivory' tusk implants. They won't be able to tell the difference. Why should we have to play pool with plastic balls?
Posted on 10/04/2015 4:49:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill to close a loophole in the state’s ban on importing, buying or selling elephant ivory or rhinoceros horns.
Supporters said California is a major market for ivory, and the ban would help dry up demand. …
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Yes, no more tickling the ivories as they used to call it.
Black market, anyone? Or is it racist to say that?
So we can’t buy them at gunshows any more.
More likely Africans having their villages trampled by elephants because nobody is culling the heard.
It’s easy to make fun of, but I don’t have a problem with this.
The never ending taking of private property (and yes, calling something illegal to sell IS taking private property without compensation) really has to stop.
I sure hope the three scrimshaw artists left in California, and all the collectors who have pieces of what used to be legal ivory in their collection, find lawyers who are actually willing to challenge this law.
Oh, yeah? What about all those 3rd world voters in Kali that need their medicinal rhino horn?
there arent any left ouside patrolled sanctuary grounds to do any village trampling.
I saw a documentary on ivory not to long ago. Some African nations actually have ivory reserves, similar to how nations have gold reserves. I found it fascinating. There will never be a world without an Ivory trade...so their reserves are sound.
Until you try and buy an antique revolver with ivory grips.
I don’t see how the Californian government has any more right to ban ivory than it does foie gras. That’s not freedom.
Thank goodness! I can finally stop worrying about California illegal ivory sales.
Well, the BIG hurdle was voluntarily surrendered (selling labor under contract, aka ‘income’) as ‘illegal w/out govt permission/tracking’ (work permit, W2, etc.). No matter that the 16th violates a number of other Amendments...
I hope that CA residents fail to leave and must thus live under the Socialist rule they voted/allowed to flourish. Don’t give ‘em an opportunity to infest the rest of the Country with their Leftist ideals!
Or an old piano. I hope that it at the least sticks with the buying and selling of it, and didn’t include the “transfer” of it - which could include inheriting old heirlooms.
Heh. Did a search to see if piano keys WERE made out of real ivory. I figured they were, but....
Found the following on a piano repair site in Nashville:
“Can Ivory still be bought? Please see the answer to those questions below!!! Nashville Piano Rescue WILL NOT BUY, SELL or SHIP ivory key material, either whole or broken.
People that want to buy/ sell Ivory, even if is already in use as piano key veneer or whatever inadvertently create a market which harms the endangered species act.”
If this works, they should make cocaine and human trafficking illegal.
Take their tusks and fit them with `faux-ivory' tusk implants. They won't be able to tell the difference. Why should we have to play pool with plastic balls?
So, my parents in the 1960s brought back a small tusk carved into a small town. Is that illegal? lol...Come and take it!
These idiots claim that the previous limit on selling only ivory imported before 1977 wasn’t doing enough to protect elephants? How can that possibly be true?
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