Here is a little business idea. Let me know what you think in the comments.
The USA is made up of 50 different states and countless different county and city municipalities. Now there are certainly piles of federal laws that weigh all of these places down equally, but each of these entities also takes it upon themselves to further burden their citizens with additional laws and regulations.
These laws often take perfectly normal items and make them suddenly illegal in those sad, benighted municipalities.
I first became aware of this because of my interest in guns. The laws are constantly changing all over the place, every year. Often this takes certain types of accessories, or entire categories of accessories and makes them illegal over night.
In those situations, lots of times people aren't even aware of it. They only find out about it months or years down the road and then feel like they have to throw the offending items away, or drive across state borders to unload them at a discount to people that live in more free environments.
Sometimes people never find out about it until they find themselves in hot water with the law and get hit for something that they didn't even know was illegal.
This whole situation is less of a problem in the gun world nowadays since so many of the laws have been becoming more civilized in the last few years, but I did really see the magnitude of the problem. Sometimes, depending on the type of item that became verboten, their was transfers of millions of dollars of products just due to avoiding government abuse.
The more I thought about it - the more I realized that this doesn't only apply to guns and gun accessories. It must also apply to tons of other items that are subject to arbitrary government fiat.
There wasn't much you could do about it in the past other then just buy up a bunch of the offending items and load them up in a truck to take them somewhere that they were legal.
These days, there is a lot more that can be done about this.
Updates in the laws can be tracked online. We can also do targeted advertising for the areas that are affected by any new abusive law.
I am thinking of something like a Craigslist clearing house for items that governments force sudden surpluses on.
Now obviously this couldn't apply to items that were federally abused. If it is a federal law, then the items would need to be disposed of in whichever way the government mafia forced on it's subjects.
But there are so many different smaller municipalities and often the items they prohibit can be sold and traded online or through the mail legally.
Even if the items were too big for cost effective mailing, we could try to work out some kind of deal with www.uship.com.
This would be tricky, and I do realize that it runs the risk of attracting government attacks since they would get so angry seeing other people profit from their abuses.
But it is a service that needs to take place. These sorts of things are already happening, but spread out through sites like Craigslist and Ebay.
It would make sense to have a centralized site to deal with these sorts of situations, as well as the targeted advertising possibility that would increase public awareness of the most recent abuses. That way more people would have more time to react and have the opportunity to get in compliance with the law as well as make some money from the item that is being targeted by the government.
I am sure I am not thinking of something here, so chime in and let me know what you think!!
Thanks!!!!