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Old April 16, 2013, 04:22 PM   #219
Brian Pfleuger
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Originally Posted by Spats
However, under that line of thinking, EVERYTHING is subject to Commerce Clause regulation by the fed gov't.
And that's exactly my point.

Current interpretation seems to be that anything that is EVER involved in interstate commerce is FOREVER in interstate commerce and anything that MIGHT have been in interstate commerce if it hadn't NOT been "effects" interstate commerce so it is ALSO covered by the Commerce Clause.

That's an argument that is so preposterous that it should be laughable... but instead it's "the law of the land".

It makes no sense whatsoever and it CERTAINLY makes no sense when applied to the idea of background checks.

They might as well say that someone who buys a car has to pass an FBI drug test because the car came from interstate commerce.

There could be 10's of thousands of examples that anyone in their right mind would find absurd, yet it somehow "makes sense" in this case.
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