State mulls ban on sale of ivory products

March 17, 2015

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HARTFORD, Conn. – A public hearing was held Wednesday on a bill that would prohibit the sale in Connecticut of products made out of ivory and rhinoceros horn.

A federal ban on elephant ivory enacted in 2014, puts some limitations on the commercial sale and non-commercial possession of ivory products, but Connecticut’s bill, Raised Bill No. 6955, would go significantly further.

As written the measure specifies that “No person shall import, sell, offer for sale, purchase, barter or possess with the intent to sell, any ivory, ivory product, rhinoceros horn or rhinoceros horn product.”

The bill defines ivory as “any tooth or tusk, or any part thereof, that is composed of ivory from any animal, including, but not limited to, any elephant, hippopotamus, mammoth, narwhal, walrus or whale or any piece thereof.”

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One response to “State mulls ban on sale of ivory products”

Casey Smith

March 17, 2015

Why is this an issue?

Is the State engaged in ivory trade?

And what about all the scrimshaw and other ivory carvings at Mystic and other museums? Is this the precursor to seize and destroy?

Sounds like a very politically correct thing to do, but may have lots of unintended consequences.

With the State cutting funding for mental health services and other programs, banning ivory doesn’t seem like a high priority. Balancing the budget and controlling the hemorrhage of residents moving elsewhere for a better business and residential environments would be on the top of my list.

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