- July 8, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Some VA businesses request investigation into ban on ‘skill games’
A group of minority-owned small businesses are asking Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring to investigate whether the ban on skills games that went into effect on July 1 violates Virginia’s human rights laws.
VIRGINIA (FOX 5 DC) – A group of minority-owned small businesses are asking Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring to investigate whether the ban on skills games that went into effect on July 1 violates Virginia’s human rights laws.
The so-called skill game looks like your everyday slot machine and functions almost just like it, but instead of winning on sheer dumb luck, it requires the user to engage some level of skill to play the game and win.
These machines have been operating in small businesses across the commonwealth for a few years, largely without regulation, but no longer. Lawmakers were concerned the skill games were not regulated, referring to them as “grey…
