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My, my, my. The 9th Circuit never ceases to amaze.

By The Armorer on November 13, 2003 | | Comments (3)

Via Volokh: The Ninth Circuit has held that the Commerce Clause can't be used to ban possession of homemade machineguns. They didn't make it a 2A issue - that would be way too out of character, but this certainly is a huge ripple in the debate.

I'll leave it to those guys to explain it better'n me. I'm still not moving to the 9th Circuit just yet.

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By Boris A.Kupershmidt on November 13, 2003 8:08 PM
In plain English, this is the most significant Court ruling of the last 70 years, if not ever. The Commerce clause is the Only pretext for the Federal intrusions in our life. Without it, most of the Federal laws will be just irrelevant personal opinions of DC politicians.
 
By gunner on November 13, 2003 8:39 PM
Time to buy myself that lathe and sheet metal press I always wanted for Christmas...
 
By Skip Perry on November 13, 2003 9:08 PM
In plain English, this is the most significant Court ruling of the last 70 years, if not ever. Um, Marbury v. Madison?