[marktwain]

“But that possession affects interstate commerce, and such a recitation must appear in the federal law that prohibits handguns w/in XX feet of a school. The Lopez decision was gutted months after its passage. It's holding is facile.”

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I believe you are mistaken. Lopez was cited in United States v. Stewart, where the 9th circuit held that homemade machine-guns did not fall under jurisdiction of the Federal government because they were not involved in interstate commerce.

[Cboldt]

-- Lopez was cited in United States v. Stewart, where the 9th circuit held that homemade machine-guns did not fall under jurisdiction of the Federal government because they were not involved in interstate commerce. --

SCOTUS directed the 9th Circuit to reconsider Stewart and be guided in that reconsideration by Raich. The result:

"We therefore hold that Congress had a rational basis for concluding that in the aggregate, possession of homemade machineguns could substantially affect interstate commerce in machineguns."

[rahbert]

The findings in Wickard, Lopez, Stewart all point to an
unenunciated Federal power to elevate private posession of anything to an act of interstate commerce. I am trying to
think of something that the Feds could not by fiat promote
possession of to a Federally regulated act were they of a mind to.