It is illegal to wear a false moustache in church in Alabama.
It is illegal to push a moose out of an airplane in Alaska.
It is illegal to keep more than two dildos in one house in Arizona.
It is illegal to mispronounce the word “Arkansas” in Arkansas.
It is illegal for animals to mate publicly within 1,500 feet of a school, tavern or place of worship in California.
It is illegal to mutilate a rock in a state park in Colorado.
It is illegal to ride a bicycle faster than 65 miles per hour in Connecticut.
It is illegal to fly over a body of water without a packed lunch in Delaware.
It is illegal to sing in a public place while in a bathing suit in Florida.
It is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket on Sunday in Georgia.
It is illegal to put a coin in your ear in Hawaii.
It is illegal to ride a merry-go-round on Sunday in Idaho.
It is illegal to enter a city in an automobile without first notifying the police in Illinois.
It is illegal to perform a puppet show for money in Indiana.
It is illegal for a man with a moustache to kiss a woman in public in Iowa.
It is illegal to catch a fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
It is illegal to fish with a bow and arrow in Kentucky.
It is illegal to insult a boxer at a boxing match in Louisiana.
It is illegal to exit a plane in flight in Maine.
It is illegal to give or receive oral sex in Maryland.
It is illegal to eat more than three sandwiches at a wake in Massachusetts.
It is illegal for a woman to cut her own hair without her husband’s permission in Michigan.
It is illegal to sleep naked in Minnesota.
It is illegal for a man to be sexually aroused in public in Mississippi.
It is illegal to give or receive oral sex in Missouri.
It is illegal to have a sheep in the cab of your truck without a chaperone in Montana.
It is illegal to go whale fishing in Nebraska.
It is illegal to ride a camel on the highway in Nevada.
It is illegal to tap your feet or nod your head in time to music in a café or restaurant in New Hampshire.
It is illegal to slurp your soup in New Jersey.
It is illegal to walk around naked in public unless the genitals are covered in New Mexico. This law applies only to men.
It is illegal to talk to someone in an elevator in New York.
It is illegal to sing off-key in North Carolina.
It is illegal to fall asleep with your shoes on in North Dakota.
It is illegal for women to wear patent leather shoes in public in Ohio.
It is illegal to take a bite of someone else’s hamburger in Oklahoma.
It is illegal to use a dishwasher in Oregon.
It is illegal to sing in the bathtub in Pennsylvania.
It is illegal to impersonate an auctioneer in Rhode Island.
It is illegal to buy or sell musical instruments on Sunday in South Carolina.
It is illegal to fall asleep in a cheese factory in South Dakota.
It is illegal for children to hold hands at school in Tennessee.
It is illegal to own the Encyclopedia Britannica in Texas.
It is illegal to detonate a nuclear weapon in Utah.
It is illegal to deny the existence of God in Vermont.
It is illegal to have sex with the lights on in Virginia.
It is illegal to eat a lollipop in Washington.
It is illegal to have sex with an animal, unless that animal is less than 40 pounds, in West Virginia.
It is illegal to serve apple pie in a restaurant without a slice of cheese in Wisconsin.
It is illegal for a woman to stand within five feet of a bar while drinking in Wyoming.
On the other hand…
It is legal to sell guns to individuals on the government’s terrorist watch list in all 50 states. According to the FBI, More than 200 people suspected of ties to terrorism bought guns in the U.S. legally in 2010. Between February 2004 and December 2010, 1,453 known or suspected terrorists on the list attempted to buy firearms or explosives in the United States; 90% were allowed to complete their purchase.
It is legal to sell firearms to individuals arrested or convicted for violent misdemeanors or domestic violence.
The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, passed in 1993, mandated federal background checks on individual firearms from a registered firearms seller. Between 1994 and 2007, federal data show 1.6 million gun sales were blocked by background checks, half due to felony convictions. The loophole: Unlicensed gun sellers, including about 25% of dealers at gun shows, do not have to conduct background checks.
In most states you can legally buy guns online without a background check. Online transactions account for 40% of U.S. gun sales.
It is legal in 43 of the 50 states to possess pistol-caliber armor piercing ammunition.
It is legal to own a 50-caliber, armor-piercing sniper rifle with a firing range of five miles and the capability to take down a helicopter.
It is legal to own the military grade M134 machine gun with the capacity to fire up to 166 bullets per second.
It is legal to buy unlimited quantities of assault-style weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines without the notification of any government or law enforcement authority by either buyer or seller.
There is no federal law concerning any minimum age for the transfer or sale of a firearm that is not defined as a handgun, such as rifles, semiautomatic rifles, short-barreled rifles, shotguns, short-barreled shotgun, machine guns, etc., for transactions that don't involve federal firearms licensees.
No editorializing, no posturing, no politicizing - just the facts. Make of them what you will.
Merry Christmas.
Peace on Earth.