Quote Originally Posted by thebigspendur View Post
It's not that so much as we as humans developed to live in small clans with everyone related and tied to each other. We view everyone outside our clan read family with suspicion and the further away others get from us the more suspicion. We were never designed to live in cities or in close proximity to each other and it's only the thin veneer of society and it's laws that keeps us from exterminating each other. That's why in area of the world you see tribes killing each other and religions battling it out. Anything we can find to categorize someone else as inferior to us or unlikeable is reason enough. Even in countries where the population is relatively homogeneous they always find a way to put down those from this city or region of the country.

However getting back to the original topic of ivory. You will all note primary enforcement responsibility goes to Fish and Wildlife and I know Fish and Wildlife and the chances of them even beginning to do real enforcement of the law is about as great as an Elephant dancing ballet. They simply do not have the money and the manpower to begin to enforce the law. Any enforcement will be very very very limited and you can take that to the bank.

This is another of those laws that get great initial press and then quietly goes away. You will see a few instances widely publicized where they go after some big importer and that's it.
What you say may be true on a national level,but far from true in my state.
It was the DFG that Raided Slewinskys auction house in scotts valley last year,confiscated a huge amt of so called preban Ivory artifacts.
You go to any major Gun show,The DFG is always there,Dealer got busted 3 weeks ago at the cal expo gunshow for selling Walrus Ivory.
He may face a $50,000 fine.Friend of mine got busted several yrs back at the San Jose gunshow for selling an antique stuffed ross"es Goose, $600 fine,Is Financial incentives for the DFG to enfource the laws.
Importation has been banned for decades,the new law has nothing to do with importation.