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Emissary
SCOTUS has agreed to rehear United States v. Squire en banc, reopening a major fight over whether Congress can use the Commerce Clause to criminalize firearm possession simply because a gun or ammunition once moved in interstate commerce.
https://www.theoutdoorwire.com/features/2026/08/headline/
The Feds’ Favorite Gun Control Trick
The government’s theory is simple. If a firearm was made in another state, Washington, D.C. claims it can regulate possession of that gun forever. No sale required. No shipment required. No trafficking required. No actual interstate commerce required. Just possession.
Washington stretches the Commerce Clause until almost every firearm, every round of ammunition, every private sale, and every local possession case can be dragged into federal court. The Second Amendment gets treated like a privilege. The Tenth Amendment gets ignored. And the ATF gets another excuse to stick its nose into the lives of gun owners.
Under that theory, a gun sitting in a home in Texas can become a federal case because it was manufactured somewhere else, possibly years earlier. Texas Gun Rights sees this for what it is: a federal police power dressed up in Commerce Clause language.
The Fifth Circuit’s rehearing order even drew a warning from Judge Stephen Higginson that the court had “welcomed the possibility” of holding that Congress’ Commerce Clause power can't support § 922(g).
https://www.theoutdoorwire.com/features/2026/08/headline/
The Feds’ Favorite Gun Control Trick
The government’s theory is simple. If a firearm was made in another state, Washington, D.C. claims it can regulate possession of that gun forever. No sale required. No shipment required. No trafficking required. No actual interstate commerce required. Just possession.
Washington stretches the Commerce Clause until almost every firearm, every round of ammunition, every private sale, and every local possession case can be dragged into federal court. The Second Amendment gets treated like a privilege. The Tenth Amendment gets ignored. And the ATF gets another excuse to stick its nose into the lives of gun owners.
Under that theory, a gun sitting in a home in Texas can become a federal case because it was manufactured somewhere else, possibly years earlier. Texas Gun Rights sees this for what it is: a federal police power dressed up in Commerce Clause language.
The Fifth Circuit’s rehearing order even drew a warning from Judge Stephen Higginson that the court had “welcomed the possibility” of holding that Congress’ Commerce Clause power can't support § 922(g).
