Never going to happen? Read the link bro, It DID happen.
The whole point was a large ammount of professional tattooists in New Zealand such like myself were pushing to stop '
www.trademe.co.nz ' selling "tattoo kits" ( which is a New Zealand and Austrailian site like ebay ) And with them now having pulled all kits and ink from the site means the scratcher issue will be starting to help the ease of them getting inks and kits.
But if they decided to go straight to overseas suppliers they`ll still be able to get what they need but this is still a small step to prevent further sales of tattoo equipment to non professionals.
Some suppilers stay true and only sell to professional studios, but there are many that`ll sell to the public.