It looks to me to cast a wide blanket that could potentially deal our industry a serious blow. Unless I'm mistaken and please correct me if I misread. It looks as if any species placed on the banned for importation into the US list would make it immediately illegal to buy, sell or breed. This blanket could cover alot of area here.

(a) PROHIBITIONS.—No person shall—
(3) knowingly possess (except as provided in
13 section 3(f)), sell or offer to sell, purchase or offer
14 to purchase, or barter for or offer to barter for, any
15 nonnative wildlife species that is prohibited from
16 being imported under paragraph (1), any descend17
ants of such a species, or viable eggs of such a spe18
cies;
(5) knowingly breed any nonnative wildlife spe23
cies imported in violation of paragraph (1), or pro24
vide any such species to others for breeding pur25
poses; or
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1 (6) knowingly sell or offer to sell, purchase or
2 offer to purchase, barter or offer to barter for or
3 offer to barter for, release, or breed any nonnative
4 wildlife species referred to in section 3(f).
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Primeval-Beauty
"Finding beauty where other's fear to tread"

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• BAN??? WE NEED YOUR SIGNATURES - WALL2WALLREPTILE, Mon Nov 17 11:23:15 2008
• RE: BAN??? WE NEED YOUR SIGNATURES - primevalbeauty, Mon Nov 17 12:12:05 2008
• RE: BAN??? WE NEED YOUR SIGNATURES - melindaste, Mon Nov 17 12:29:34 2008
• RE: BAN??? WE NEED YOUR SIGNATURES - mugencrx, Mon Nov 17 12:30:31 2008
• RE: BAN??? WE NEED YOUR SIGNATURES - wRobio, Mon Nov 17 12:41:27 2008
• RE: BAN??? WE NEED YOUR SIGNATURES - Mike_Russell, Mon Nov 17 13:34:30 2008
• RE: BAN??? WE NEED YOUR SIGNATURES - amcroyals, Mon Nov 17 14:26:18 2008
• signed but it isn't enough IMO n/p - FRoberts, Mon Nov 17 14:31:46 2008
• RE: BAN??? WE NEED YOUR SIGNATURES - TOM_CRUTCHFIELD, Mon Nov 17 19:25:05 2008