[Tench_Coxe]

"The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce, so it has authority to set the rules for interstate airline travel. Those rules do not deny Gilmore's right to travel from state to state, they only restrict his access to privately owned facilities such as airlines and passenger trains."

Given the latter part of your statement, what are your thoughts on the National Firearms Act of 1934?

[epow]

Given the latter part of your statement, what are your thoughts on the National Firearms Act of 1934?

I believe it is clearly unconstitutional. That act imposes a tax on the exercise of an individual right, one that is unquestionably guaranteed by the Constitution. The power to tax is the power to destroy, therefore taxing the exercise of a Constitutionally protected right is totally at odds with the intent of the authors. Again just MHO.

Even more egregious yet is the law which doesn't just tax but actually denies exercise of the right to possess certain arms manufactured after 1986. Namely, arms comparable to those currently in use by our national armed forces, which are exactly the type arms the authors intended the amendment to protect.