Quote Originally Posted by thebigspendur View Post
Yea, go to Africa Mr Big game hunter and shoot an Elephant and bring the Tusks back and see what happens to you in Customs.

That provision specifies sport hunting under certain conditions, very limited conditions like when they cull the herds in S Africa mainly and you have a permit to hunt. Then you can bring them back but you better have a mountain of paperwork from the S African Govt.

People smuggle Ivory into the country all the time and only a tiny fraction is actually detected. That's why there is so much turning up all the time.
Am not a big game hunter and I would never want to shoot an Elephant,all Killing of african Elephants today is done for culling purposes and a ton of paperwork is required just to be allowed to do so.
That paperwork,combined with a license fee of $35,000.00 allows you to bring the tusks back to the U.S