{
  "id": "MSG-183",
  "slug": "msg-183",
  "title": "No weapons that are not legal in all fifty states",
  "statement": "Campaign content must not promote weapons that are not lawful in every US state.",
  "rationale": "This is a legality sweep rather than a category ban, and it is the rule that catches sellers who are entirely lawful where they stand: switchblades, brass knuckles, certain knives, tasers and high-capacity magazines are ordinary retail in some states and criminal to possess in others. A campaign is one national object — the numbers reach every state — so carriers apply the most restrictive state rather than the sender's. Bandwidth and Infobip both refuse on the fifty-state test specifically, which is why a firearms-clean knife retailer still gets rejected and cannot see why.",
  "layer": "MESSAGE_CONTENT",
  "layerSlug": "message-content",
  "object": "campaign.description + campaign.sample[] + campaign.message_flow",
  "severity": "BLOCKING",
  "detectability": [
    "AI_FORM"
  ],
  "failureClass": "HARD_STOP",
  "authorities": [
    "Bandwidth",
    "Infobip"
  ],
  "codes": [
    {
      "provider": "Bandwidth",
      "code": "7009",
      "remediable": false
    },
    {
      "provider": "Bandwidth",
      "code": "7011",
      "remediable": false
    },
    {
      "provider": "Infobip",
      "code": "7009",
      "remediable": true
    }
  ],
  "applicabilityText": "Applies to every 10DLC registration.",
  "universal": true,
  "remediation": "Take the state-restricted lines out of the message copy and register the campaign on the products that are lawful everywhere, or on services rather than product. The test is nationwide legality, not your own licence, so the fix is to check each item you name against the strictest state rather than to add a disclaimer or an age gate.",
  "pitfalls": [
    "Adding \"where legal\" to the message does not settle this — carriers apply the fifty-state test to the campaign, not to each recipient, and the disclaimer is read as an admission."
  ],
  "notes": "The same code number resolves differently by namespace, so the remediability is recorded per provider rather than averaged: Bandwidth Proxy 7009 and 7011 are terminal, while Infobip 7009 is conditional on the product set being lawful nationwide. Kept apart from MSG-SHAFT-FIREARMS deliberately: that rule is the firearms category test, this one is a legality test that catches sellers who hold no firearms at all. A knife retailer trips this and passes that.",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/message-content/msg-183/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/message-content/msg-183.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}