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Old 07-11-2018, 04:59 PM   #8
DrummingT
"Don't you think USFWS would be waiting at the exit and charge everybody...."

That's the Feds. No, the Feds wouldn't have anything to do with it. If it's a Columbia ordinance then neither would the State of South Carolina. Local ordinances are enforced by local police and local animal control and their local courts.

It's possible that sales are not prohibited in Columbia, but ownership is. It's also possible that the Repticon isn't really in Columbia but bordering it and is unaffected.
Lastly, the article could be wrong and it's a different city in South Carolina that has laws prohibiting both sales and ownership and the reporter mixed up the city where the reptile show is held with the city that bans ownership of venomous snakes.

I know there is another reptile show held in South Carolina and venomous are banned from that show because of the local laws.

Same thing in Pennsylvania. Major metro areas ban ownership and sales in Pennsylvania but there are shows all over the state selling them because state law does not.

There is no Federal law banning sales or importation of venomous snakes.