Right, but if you're saying that a state has no authority to regulate guns whatsoever, you can hardly say that the feds do, right?
Yet question someone who exercises his second Amendment RIGHT.
I'd question a legally insane person who wants to guy a handgun. I'd question a convicted felon who wants to buy a machine gun. I'd question a child who shows up at a gun counter and wants to buy a shotgun. And I'd question that weird neighbor when starts building bombs or concocting nerve gas in his garage.
United States v. Lopez
Thomas' concurrence in Lopez is based on the Feds use of the commerce clause to justify a school gun ban. I agree with him, and the expansion of the commerce clause to cover just about every aspect of life is something that should be stopped. There's not word one about the Second Amendment in the opinion. But Thomas does says:
"But it seems to me that the power to regulate "commerce" can by no means encompass authority over mere gun possession, any more than it empowers the Federal Government to regulate marriage, littering, or cruelty to animals, throughout the 50 States. Our Constitution quite properly leaves such matters to the individual States, notwithstanding these activities' effects on interstate commerce."
Regulating gun possession, as he says then, is a matter for the states. Or do you think there should be no legal way to restrict 12th graders bringing loaded revolvers to school, as in Lopez?
**I'd question a legally insane person who wants to guy a handgun. I'd question a convicted felon who wants to buy a machine gun. I'd question a child who shows up at a gun counter and wants to buy a shotgun. And I'd question that weird neighbor when starts building bombs or concocting nerve gas in his garage.**
The reason I posted Mr. Thomas is this above!
If your convicted of a State crime and later your civil rights are restored...It's a State matter! If a States says that people who pass a hunter safety course can purchase a Firearm..It's a State matter!
This Federal Government has forced by coercion it's view of State laws..Under Federal Law if your wife during a divorce gets a ‘keep the peace’ order..Then under Federal Law your prohibited!
Better yet..Spank your kids and under Federal Law it's ‘domestic violence’ misdemeanor that carries a lifetime ban..
That's my whole point..It's a State issue