I’m enjoying the thread, but the link doesn’t mean I now agree with you about the commerce clause interpretations. But we can carry on over there.
Here’s an interesting quotation from a firearms forum I visit:
“Extending the limitation of federal power to the states does some violence to the corpse of federalism, but we should not pretend we’ve witnessed a murder. The victim was gravely ill decades before any of us were born.”
The same rationale a late arriving looter might use if a store was already mostly stripped.