[Cboldt]

-- Lopez was cited in United States v. Stewart, where the 9th circuit held that homemade machine-guns did not fall under jurisdiction of the Federal government because they were not involved in interstate commerce. --

SCOTUS directed the 9th Circuit to reconsider Stewart and be guided in that reconsideration by Raich. The result:

"We therefore hold that Congress had a rational basis for concluding that in the aggregate, possession of homemade machineguns could substantially affect interstate commerce in machineguns."

[marktwain]

Could you please send me a link for that quote. I’d like to read the whole thing.

[rahbert]

“We therefore hold that Congress had a rational basis for concluding that in the aggregate, possession of homemade ice cream bars could substantially affect interstate commerce in ice cream bars.”