Squire admitted that his firearm and ammunition were manufactured outside Louisiana. The question is whether that past movement permits Congress to regulate his present, entirely intrastate possession. [More]
We need a Bruen-type ruling recognizing the Constitution was ratified with the interstate powers in the Commerce Clause understood to be the way to keep states from imposing tariffs and embargoes on each other.
The metastasized monster it has become reflects when FDR’s power grab against the last vestiges of federalism. I find it intriguing that the polar flip in interpretation of the Constitution came about “because one justice, Owen Roberts, switched his vote. Ever since, historians have argued about why he did so.”
UPDATE
Mark W. Smith says there are bigger implications:
MASSIVE NEW DECISION FINALLY THREATENS NFA AND MACHINE GUN BAN!… the question presented really in the Squire case in the en banc court in front of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is whether or not Congress, created by Article One of the United States Constitution, has the legal authority to enact federal gun control law 18 USC 922G1 because the only potential connection to congressional authority found … is to this commerce clause.
[Via Jess]
We need a Bruen-type ruling on just about every federal law.