Not only are you correct, but the dissent from Thomas was hella based.

The Trump picks were all massive letdowns.

So-called "legal" and "traceable" guns can have their serials filed off. Then what?

Their arguments are total bullshit and they know it. But as always, "It's for your safety, citizen."

Founders: "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" There, that should be pretty simple for future generations to understand!

SCOTUS: Obviously the founders meant "unless too many people start using them to commit crimes"!

Holy shit, I just heard of this one.

tl;dr a farmer grew "too much" wheat to feed animals on his own farm according to the government and even though he wasn't selling it SCOTUS said it still somehow constituted "commerce" because reasons.

The Court decided that Filburn's wheat-growing activities reduced the amount of wheat he would buy for animal feed on the open market, which is traded nationally, is thus interstate, and is therefore within the scope of the Commerce Clause.

That one needs a Dobbs reversal.

Wickard v Filburn

Ah yes: you grew this wheat for your own private use, but it's existence impacts the markets because now you won't be buying something that you otherwise might have bought, therefore it's "in or affecting interstate commerce".

A ridiculous argument that, taken to its logical conclusion, grants the federal government unlimited power over everything because every act or failure to act and every piece of property or raw material can potentially affect interstate commerce in some sort of six degrees of separation way.

America as the founders envisioned died in the Civil War, but the 20th century, particularly the New Deal saw the destruction of even the pretense that the nation consists of numerous sovereigns with a federal government that only exists for a few limited purposes and has no powers beyond those granted to it by the Constitution.

Very high. But a "ghost gun" is a legally produced and sold gun, that was at some point stolen or sold, and had the serial number filed off.

If we're talking homemade guns, like they always try to conflate...practically nil.

All so called "ghost guns" used in crimes are just normal guns that have been defaced in some way. It's fearmongering and attempting to backdoor even more tyranny.

Apparently the fools on the pro-gun side argued only a point of minutia: that the P80 kit didn't fall under the definition of "readily convertible" to a firearm based on where the definition fell in the text. The ruling was narrow in that it held some kits meet the definition ("we'll know it when we see it"). They didn't even challenge the constitutionality of the law under Bruen's text/history/tradition test.

When you challenge a law, you list every possible reason you claim it should be struck down, because you never know which argument will be the winner, and you're stuck with the arguments from the original trial on appeal.

The Obamacare lawsuit was the model for how you do it. The Republicans threw every objection they could think of in the filing, which was a good thing, because they won on some obscure Medicare cost sharing rule instead of the primary argument that it was illegal for the feds to force you to buy insurance from a private company.

The court ate up the bullshit claim that the penalty was a tax, even though it was always called a penalty until they were defending it in court. It would have been game over right there if that was the only argument in the filing.

So, unpopular opinion: I'm kind of like "who gives a shit" on much about the second amendment anymore... It's just grown tiring hearing chest-beating 'muh sekint amendurr' from LARPing rednecks who want to play with toys but won't admit that that's all there is to it.

Go to any forum full of those kinds of people, that talks about 'muh 2a SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED' and post the schematics for making your own home machine gun, and you'll be banned faster than you could ever be banned on Reddit. There is nothing criminal about gun schematics for machine guns. There is nothing criminal about detailed instructions for making your own home suppressors. Even if I showed off my entirely illegal third-pin-drilled, homemade autosear equipped (for DOUBLE the fun!) AR15, guess what, that isn't a fucking crime for you to have that image on your forum, or to look at it. It's like thinking looking at Hunter's cocaine is a crime. But Fudd-run cesspools like AR15.com are militant about that gay shit because MUH FEDS.

Having an unstamped machine gun is literally just an issue of taxation, but I've met zero shit-talkers who are doing some underground criminal shit. For fuck's sake, go to an AK forum, and you'll find them all taking 922(r) "required US made parts" super-seriously, and making sure all their guns are in compliance, because they're a bunch of bootlicking fags.

When the bump stock ban came down, they all hid their bump stocks, because at the end of the day, they will comply with anything, and the MOLON LABE shit is just them being poseurs. The issue of gun laws is primarily about their guns being toys than it is anything else, which also explains why things like "Sunday Gunday" are just about humblebragging with some wildly overpriced gucci rifle. It's just about showing off how rich and cool you are. Retards are dropping $4,000 for Wilson Combat shitheaps and trying to justify how great it is with completely subjective, immeasurable metrics they don't actually know, like "muh fit and finish".

Arm braces are a great example. EVERY SINGLE PERSON KNOWS AN ARM BRACE IS A FUCKING STOCK. YOU ARE FOOLING NOBODY. I bet fewer than 20% of brace owners have ever even strapped it to their arm. The entire point of the arm brace restriction was to be a loophole in the SBR law... that means arm braces existed because 'MUH COME AND TAKE IT' types dutifully spent millions of dollars on R&D, production, and purchasing these fucking gimmicks to make sure their SBR toy was super-duper legal and extra-compliant with laws they claim they will not comply with... but they literally did, otherwise who the fuck was buying the arm braces, and for what purpose?

It's not that I'm against the second amendment but hearing trashholes post the same copy-pasted Boomer rage on everything for decades just... kinda grows exhausting, y'know? They're a bunch of tough-talking hicks online but a bunch of mewling weeping yellow-bellied bootlicking pussies in real life, which is why a 17 year old kid in Kenosha was left to fight the rioters alone while all the "TRY THAT IN A SMALL TOWN" types hid in their trailers rage-posting their fantasy dreams online.