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MA: Your Urgent Action Needed to Oppose the Ivory Ban Legislation!
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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Last October, the Joint Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing to discuss House Bill 1275, legislation to ban the intrastate trade in legal ivory and ivory products. Nearly 100 individuals ranging from antique dealers, firearm collectors and musicians attended the hearing to voice their opposition to this measure. However, now there are closed door discussions taking place to amend this legislation with no public input and the Committee reporting date for the legislation has been extended to Monday, May 2, 2016. |
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Millwright66
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| Another example of legislative ignorance ! Ivory, ( from sources as disparate as terrestrial animals to pelagic ) was long a source of ornamentation for hand-crafted products ranging from firearms to furniture to personal care utensils, to musical instruments. Most of these are "durable" hence continue to exist and bad valued despite current phobias. Are we to destroy these art treasures to satisfy some current fad espoused by the historically and culturally ignorant ? |
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