Under what power can Congress regulate private sales? No power for UBC?

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In any event, they can simply call the UBC a 'tax' and SCOTUS would bless it.
 
They are abusing the Commerce Clause. Read the first lines of GCA 1968.
 
all upheld the new Federal Gun Free School Zone Act because the addition of "that has moved in or that otherwise affects interstate or foreign commerce" causes the law to fall under the interstate commerce clause. Just like the new Federal Gun Free School Act - the only requirement would be for the government to prove that the firearm sold or transferred had at one time in the past moved in or otherwise affected interstate or foreign commerce.
They are abusing the Commerce Clause. Read the first lines of GCA 1968.
The exact wording if the 2nd Amendment takes arms out of the scope of the Commerce Clause. It is only by judicial dishonesty that any of GCA'68 is allowed to stand. (cue Frank Ettin to yell at me again because he's a lawyer and I'm not. Preemptive question: there have been no USSC decisions regarding the 3rd Amendment, does that render it meaningless?)
 
The exact wording if the 2nd Amendment takes arms out of the scope of the Commerce Clause. It is only by judicial dishonesty that any of GCA'68 is allowed to stand. (cue Frank Ettin to yell at me again because he's a lawyer and I'm not. ...
No reason to yell at you. I'll simply point out that your opinion is irrelevant. The courts have not adopted your view.

That you consider it a matter of judicial dishonesty is also irrelevant. The opinions of courts on matters of law affect the lives and property of real people in the real world. Yours do not.

In any case, the Founding Fathers assigned the judicial power of the United States to the federal courts (not you) and authorized the federal courts to exercise that judicial power to, among other things, decide cases arising under the Constitution (Article III, Sections 1 and 2).

Preemptive question: there have been no USSC decisions regarding the 3rd Amendment, does that render it meaningless?)...
What it means is that we have less information about what it means in application.

Law (and the Constitution is law) does not exist in a vacuum. It is a tool, when applied to a set of facts, for deciding various questions. It is when law is applied it affects things in the real world. Until it is applied it's just words.




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