Just after the 1st of the year, Illinois enacted a new assault weapons ban.
This is a big part of the problem for businesses. Federal law matters everywhere and the cost of compliance is part of the cost of doing business.
State laws, on the other hand, only apply in that state and lately have been changing frequently. Many states have passed laws that are being contested in court. Hopefully as the system slowly grinds on, most or all of the true BS stuff will be repealed/nullified.
But until then, they are the law. And businesses are weighing the cost of lost revenue against cost of meeting individual state requirements that may only apply to a fraction of their business, and can change rapidly.
For one example, my state, a couple years back, declared ALL semi auto rifles were "semiautomatic assault rifles" and added a host of additional requirements before allowing purchase. This included every semi auto in every caliber (including .22RF) no matter how old, and without consideration of anything else other than semi auto function.
Now, earlier this year, they got another of their wishes with the passage of a complete BAN on purchase of "semiautomatic assault rifles", but redefined the term YET AGAIN, and, this time, excluded .22 rimfire from the list.
For many businesses, the cost of keeping in compliance in certain states outweighs the profit made doing business there.
The recent mass killing in NY, where the killer broke numerous NY gun laws BEFORE ever shooting anyone and the state's reaction are a case to be looked at. NY's reaction was (among other things) to take the maker of the NY compliant firearm to court seeking damages because they claimed the gun was "too easy" to convert to something illegal in NY.
I would hate to have to try and do business somewhere that would sue me/my business because someone broke the law with one of my products.
Best thing for my business would be to not do business there, at all.
IF that situation upsets you (as it does me) the people to blame are the elected officials who passed the laws and those people who put them in office, in the first place.
