Unnecessary regulations are a routine way for clowns who already have money to get richer, when I was managing an optics lab, we had a 800$ "machine" that simply dropped a large ball bearing down a tube on to a lens, we were required, by law, to drop thirty balls a month onto lenses that weren't going to break anyway. My boss ended up telling me that some douche decided there needed to be a regulation, petitioned the government for it, and now receives mandatory payments from each and every optics lab in the US, and exclusive, mandatory, sales of his retard-machine.  TLDR; invent a "problem", give legislators a reason to write yet another law, become rich for absolutely no reason.