U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Gun Rights Group's Challenge to State Assault Weapon Ban

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12. It doesn't matter if all 9 circuit courts and the SCOTUS say the ban is constitutional.

If there are only bans in a few states.

And, correct me if I'm wrong, the only reason the AWB worked at the federal level in the '90s is because Congress has Constitutional authority to regulate interstate trade. All Congressional authority is granted and enumerated; it has none on its own any more than the President does.

Granted, over the years it's found greater and greater powers in the interstate commerce clause. Things that don't trade over the borders of a state can be found to somehow influence something that affects the ability to produce something that is traded. If you can regulate the end product of a long line of causes and affects it, apparently, means you can regulate everything along the way.

Rather like saying if you can regulate clean water because a creek crosses a state line that you can regulate how often somebody mows their backyard. Because, after all, that shortened grass produces less oxygen, and oxygen goes into making water that becomes dew or rain that becomes run-off that forms creeks that run across state lines.