Brandon.....you are okay transporting your cues anywhere within the USA.
Possession of ivory is not a crime and so your cues cannot be confiscated.
It is the offer of selling or buying that ivory that presents the criminal offense.
As far as using ivory, if you have legal ivory with supporting evidence of how
you acquired it, and you furnish that ivory to a cue-maker to use building you
a cue, that is legal since there is no transfer of ownership of the ivory. It is
owned by you and the cue-maker did not buy it since you provided it for free.
The problem is the cue-maker now inherits the nuisance and risks associated
with building a cue with ivory and selling it. It means that the cue-maker has to
document and substantiate how he acquired that ivory and that he never sold
or charged for the ivory except ofr his labor to mill and install the ivory in the cue.
A lot of cue-makers will think it's just not worth the risk and nuisance of doing that
and may be inclined to pass up that arrangement and just build the cue using other
material to substitute for ivory to avoid the potential of any problems building the cue.
Possession of ivory is not a crime and so your cues cannot be confiscated.
It is the offer of selling or buying that ivory that presents the criminal offense.
As far as using ivory, if you have legal ivory with supporting evidence of how
you acquired it, and you furnish that ivory to a cue-maker to use building you
a cue, that is legal since there is no transfer of ownership of the ivory. It is
owned by you and the cue-maker did not buy it since you provided it for free.
The problem is the cue-maker now inherits the nuisance and risks associated
with building a cue with ivory and selling it. It means that the cue-maker has to
document and substantiate how he acquired that ivory and that he never sold
or charged for the ivory except ofr his labor to mill and install the ivory in the cue.
A lot of cue-makers will think it's just not worth the risk and nuisance of doing that
and may be inclined to pass up that arrangement and just build the cue using other
material to substitute for ivory to avoid the potential of any problems building the cue.