No, not really in my opinion. According to the black letter law of the constitution. As I said, the constitution contains no legislative authority for congress to make a law restricting the ability of the people of the several states from acquiring (or creating) and possessing arms.
I see you can't point to any language in the constitution that would give congress legislative authority to enact any law that would restrict the ability of the people of the several states from acquiring (or manufacturing) and possessing arms. It's like shooting fish in a barrel...
But only as limited to: 1. the channels of commerce; 2. the instrumentalities of commerce in interstate commerce, or persons or things in interstate commerce, even though the threat may come only from intrastate activities; and 3. activities which “substantially affect” interstate commerce.
That was the layman’s interpretation under the Wickard SCOTUS case in the 40’s, but it was superseded by Lopez in ‘95. There,
I bet you do. Can you show me the text that allows you to have the freedom to post here? Note this is not speech
There's no constitutional text that prohibits me from posting here. I'm still waiting for you to show us all the constitutional text that would allow congress to create a law prohibiting a person in, say, Pennsylvania from constructing herself, say, a machine gun.
