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Originally Posted by AB
And that's why all these state "locally-made guns are safe" laws fail -- because even if all the machining is done in state, and the product is sold and used within the state, the steel and/or plastic used to make the gun probably comes from another state (if not from another country).
Interstate commerce.
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The logic of Wickard is worse than you portray.
If you grow your own grapes, weed or wheat, or make your own suppressor entirely from materials that originate in your own state,
and you never place them in commerce, you have had an effect on interstate commerce because you aren't showing up in the interstate market looking for grapes, weed, wheat or a suppressor. Your absence from the interstate market is your presence in it.
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One of the primary purposes of the Act in question was to increase the market price of wheat, and, to that end, to limit the volume thereof that could affect the market. It can hardly be denied that a factor of such volume and variability as home-consumed wheat would have a substantial influence on price and market conditions. This may arise because being in marketable condition such wheat overhangs the market, and, if induced by rising prices, tends to flow into the market and check price increases.
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Wickard at 128.
It leaves one wondering whether Orwell was a plagiarist.