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Kythas wrote:

Beiruty wrote:I hear that states have came up with laws stating firearms and whatever related to it if made in the state, sold in the state, and never exported outsie the state are not subject to Federal regualation, if such laws survive a supreme court ruling, than the whole federal gun control is muzzled. The principle reasoning is that Federal gun control is only due to interstate commerce regulation.

Doesn't really matter, anyway. In Wickard v Filburn, the Supreme Court stated that producing something for your own use affects interstate commerce in that what you are producing for your own use would have otherwise been purchased via interstate commerce, and therefore Congress has the power to regulate it.

Therefore, if a company is providing a product or good solely within the State, it still affects interstate commerce since the residents of that State who are purchasing said product or good would otherwise have purchased it on the open, interstate market. Therefore, Congress has the right to regulate it via the Commerce Clause.

Katygunnut wrote:Wow, so congress can regulate the way that I do my own laundry, since I would otherwise have to use the laundromat, or the way that my wife and I clean the house, since we would otherwise need to hire a housekeeper. Doesn't that mean they can regulate anything that could possibly be sold (which is basically every single thing in existence)? I didn't realize that this is what the framers intended when they gave congress the power to regulate interstate commerce.