Why we don’t just scrape the rest
A scraped copy of a licence register goes stale immediately, and a stale licence record is worse than none — someone checking whether a permit is current needs today’s answer, not last quarter’s. Everything on this site is fetched from the state at the moment you load the page. That constraint is why coverage is three states instead of fifty, and we would rather be narrow and right.
What would change this
Any state publishing a queryable feed over its register. Our source registry is a configuration file; adding a state is a matter of mapping its field names, not rebuilding the site. We re-test the blocked and file-only states periodically.
Requested but not available
Missouri is the one people ask about most. Its open-data portal has a dataset called “New Liquor Licenses” that looks right until you count it: 388 rows, and they are recent issuances rather than a register. The largest Missouri alcohol dataset, at 313,312 rows, is a product list with assigned wholesalers. There is no Missouri retail licence register available as open data, so there is no honest Missouri section to build.