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"The only affect it would have on Congress' ability to regulate interstate commerce would be to help provide the final check on their ability to abuse that power."

To pontificate: To declare one’s dumbass opinion to be the Word of God.

We have 60 million citizens and 200 million guns. If we don't have the "final check" today, a few million more guns ain't gonna help.

If we don't have the "final check" today, a few million more guns ain't gonna help.

And if we do, a few more will help. The only ones who'd worry about it are the ones who are abusing the system, and want to keep right on doing it. Now, what is it you're so defensive about?

We have 60 million citizens and 200 million guns. If we don't have the "final check" today, a few million more guns ain't gonna help

The vast majority of those guns are shotguns, or .22 rifles and handguns. Very few of them are equivalent to the standard issue rifle of the federal Army.

But the real point is that if Congress can violate the Constitution "a little bit", with regards to machine guns, they can violate it a lot with respect to other arms. Or an executive branch can do so on it's own hook as in the case at hand, where they are attempted to regulate "parts" which the law, and their own regulations, define as "non guns". If they can do that, they "ban 'em all" and declare "turn them all in Mr. and Mrs. America" as one Senator declared she would do if she could get the votes.