What is the current status of reticulated pythons in the USA?

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I guess what this is doing is keeping any one new to the snake hobby from breeding retics, I guess that was the intention of the law?

It's more complicated than that.

For years Animal activist (PETA, the Human Society of America) have been trying to go forward with their ultimate agenda which is a ban on pet ownership as a whole, the first major law they tried to pass was HR669 which was to ban exotic ownership (anything from BP to betta to ferrets to parakeet would have been affected) that did not work (people fought this together) so they decided to divide and try to conquer choosing to attack a smaller target starting with reptiles, giants in particular, and of course the issue and misinformation regarding Florida invasive species have been a great help to them.

While many people believe it only has to do with large snakes and therefore those laws does not concern them it has to do with a bigger picture.