The Veteran Community’s Growing Interest in US Online Casinos
By gpointstudio On a Tuesday evening this spring, the meeting room at American Legion South Bay Post 184 in Redondo Beach had an unusual agenda item. Between notes on the Memorial Day ceremony and the post’s youth scholarship, a longtime member raised something that had been quietly circulating: two veterans they knew, both members in good standing, had run into trouble with online gambling accounts opened on trips out of state. Neither had reached crisis. Both had reached the point where family were asking questions. That conversation is not unique to Post 184, but the local context is specific. The South Bay packs a dense veteran population near the beach cities, draws active-duty and former service members through its aerospace and defense employers, and sits in a state that, unlike a growing number of others, has no legal regulated online casino gambling at all. South Bay residents are marketed to by an industry whose products, despite the polish of the comprehensive online casino player guides those operators circulate, are not legal where they live. This piece tries to give that local picture an honest reading. California has no legal online casino market California has no…
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