Palmeto State Armory won't deliver to me...

[FoxtArt]

And forgive me, but mail order companies should absolutely be required to collect and remit taxes.

Local businesses have to collect and remit taxes. Fuck Mail Order.

Do you like small businesses?

Because I don't think you understand how that process works. Colorado for instance, requires you to file a return for each and every jurisdiction. So no, you're not collecting and remitting taxes to the State of Colorado....

Open a small "mail order" business you despise and suddenly you may need hundreds of sales tax licenses and you need to file HUNDREDS of sales tax returns just in CO, likely quarterly, much less other states. Meanwhile, your competitors (Amazon, Walmart) have that fully automated. So yeah, Walmart was lobbying for what you agree with because it's actually helpful to their online sector, as it is to Amazon. Helps limit entry of any new market competitors - whether a small business does the returns all themselves (and have no time at all left to do business) or hire a third party company to do it, they can't ever get to a place where they are competitive, because the big guys do it for next to no additional overhead at all.