Right. So we moved earlier this year from Maryland to Pennsylvania, a pit stop (hopefully) on the way to Alaska. I ran a small business in Maryland, north of Baltimore, training local police departments in close quarter combat drills, urban combat and unit human intelligence collection. Even before COVID hit the state government was threatening to put me out of business due to the challenge of hiring even a small number of new employees, due to the difficulty of getting them permits to own and or carry certain types of firearms, which was a vital requirement for them to work for me. In that way, and due to direct restrictions placed on the Second Amendment by the government of Maryland, my business suffered and is mostly dead.
So we moved up to PA, purchased land and a home, and I started a second business. In order to practice my new business I had to be licensed and insured, had to get many hours long qualifications and pay shit tons of money for them. Endless red tape. So it turned out that even though I was fully licensed by the State of PA to guide fisherman anywhere in the waters of the Commonwealth, multiple state parks where I wanted to guide fisherman demanded two further hoops for me to jump through. The directors of all those state parks wanted to force me to pay them large sums of money for "commercial use licenses" to guide fisherman on their waters, and they all required me to list them as beneficiaries of my fishing guide insurance policy, which pushed up the already expensive cost of the insurance.
State government sucks.
