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You need a ham license to do most anything with a Baofeng legally.
Baofeng does make GRMS- and FRS-specific radios that comply with FCC regulations.
Not true, GMRS licenses are much easier to get
While true, it's important to remember that not all ham radios that can transmit on GMRS bands are legal to do so. GMRS and FRS don't have the same "anything goes" allowances that ham operators have. Radios for these bands must be purpose built for these bands. Of course no one is going to know your compliant GMRS/FRS transmissions are coming from part 97 radio. Although most quality ham radios don't allow transmission on anything but the ham bands. The increased FCC enforcement of these Chinese radios means that many now have extra filters to reduce spurious emissions outside the ham bands, meaning they shouldn't work as well on GMRS and FRS.
If you want to use GMRS, buy a GMRS radio.
>not all ham radios that can transmit on GMRS bands are legal to do so.
Actually, no ham radios that can transmit on GMRS bands are legal (in the US).
See 47 CFR 95.1761:
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D...
No licence is required to listen to any frequency.
Not event remotely true in the US. Reception of cellular radiotelephone signals is prohibited by law unless you are a participant in the conversation.
*in some countries.