Would you register your guns?

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Re: Would you register your guns?

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frazzled wrote:
And firearm registration is not a power delegated to the federal government in the constitution.
But regulation of interstate commerce is. Thats interstate commerce.
If I live in Texas and buy a gun from someone in Arkansas, that's interstate commerce.

If I live in Texas and buy a gun from someone in Texas, that's not interstate commerce.

If I live in Texas and keep (or bear) a gun I already own, that's not interstate commerce. It's not even commerce.

If I live in Texas and convert my AR15 to full auto or a SBR, that's not interstate commerce. It's not even commerce.

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Re: Would you register your guns?

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Congress' ability in this area is vast.
Guns are manufactured. They are then sold and shipped. Its interstate commerce or potentially interstate commerce.

If you don't believe it would fall under current caselaw please review court precedent for the last 100 years. For good or bad its a rare day when Congress can't regulate the manufacture, sale, and transport of a good or service at this point.
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Re: Would you register your guns?

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That makes me think of a quote from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass — a idiot."

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Re: Would you register your guns?

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Yep. I never said the expansion of Federal Power was a good thing. Just that it is. :cryin
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