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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
background checks by a business is interstate commerce......maybe.
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That's something I've never heard before.
I do remember that the NRA lobbied heavily against the Brady Act and then sued after it passed, stating that it violated the 10th Amendment. They wanted the whole statute to be ruled unconstitutional, but the SCOTUS only ruled that the provision which compelled state and local background checks was unconstitutional. The rest was upheld as constitutional, but I don't know whether or not the commerce clause was mentioned. I'll have to go back and read Printz v. US.