[MileHi]

...the Raisch case...

Was that the case where Wickard was cited by (Roberts?, Alito?) in the majority opinion? Do I just recall incorrectly?

[Cboldt]

Stevens wrote the majority opinion in Raich. Scalia wrote a concurring opinion, trying to distinguish agreement with federal power over pot from his (supposed) disagreement with federal power of guns in school zones, per Lopez.

The state laws that aim to disempower the feds over firearms are going to be found unconstitutional by every Circuit that takes up a case. SCOTUS is apt to deny cert, but if it takes up a case, it will agree with the Circuit. The only way the feds will be reigned in on this is by force of violence. I'm not advocating that, just saying that no part of the federal government is going to relinquish a hold on the power to regulate firearms at the personal level.