ATF Ruling Vast Expansion of its Power

Gun Watch ^ | 7 January, 2015 | Dean Weingarten

[RightOnTheBorder]

Now, a firearms manufacturing license costs a minimum of $150, and that is for a restrictive one.

It's worse than that. ITAR, a law intended to cover international sales of guns is regulated by the state department. They arbitrarily decided that all manufactures of guns in the US, even those only for sale in the US market, are required to have an ITAR license to the tune $2,250 per year.

[Ken H]

More fallout from Raich?

Not long after the decision in Raich, the Court vacated a lower court decision in United States v. Stewart and remanded it to the court of appeals for reconsideration in light of Raich. In Stewart, the Ninth Circuit had held that Congress lacked the Commerce Clause power to criminalize the possession of homemade machine guns.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich

[marktwain]

Yes, that is what I have read as well. And, it was Scalia who wrote the decision in Raich, as I recall.

Nasty, nasty, nasty.