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To: djf

Wasn’t Lopez in the 90s? It’s been almost 20 years.


61 posted on 12/03/2012 3:50:58 PM PST by Tublecane
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To: Tublecane

United States V. Lopez, 514 US 549, decided 1995

The Gun Free School Zones Act of 1990, which makes it a crimi-nal offense to knowingly possess a firearm within a school zone, ex-ceeds congressional power under the Commerce Clause. It is ‘‘a crimi-nal statute that by its terms has nothing to do with ‘commerce’ or any
sort of economic enterprise.’’ Possession of a gun at or near a school
‘‘is in no sense an economic activity that might, through repetition
elsewhere, substantially affect any sort of interstate commerce.’’


68 posted on 12/03/2012 8:13:56 PM PST by djf (Conservative values help the poor. Liberal values help them STAY poor!!!)
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