History buffs familiar with Connecticut’s infamous “blue laws” from Colonial times, which prohibited offenses ranging from committing adultery to catching eels on Sunday, may find amusement in the federal code’s share of sometimes bizarre rules and regulations that make it easier than ever to be charged with a felony.

In all, there are about 300,000 different ways to break federal law in the United States today, according to white-collar defense attorney Mike Chase of Hartford’s Shipman & Goodwin, whose new book, “How to Become a Federal Criminal,” was released Tuesday.