The Senate is considering the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. One of the stranger cases he has ruled on in a lower court involved machine gun possession. Alito believes that Congress has no right to regulate machineguns. Below is the link to an article on this and a quote from the article.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/11/02/MNG0DFHNR71.DTL
"Whatever role machine guns play in nationwide crime, Alito said, the mere act of possessing one within a state is no more of an interstate, or economic, activity than possessing a gun near a school. "
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As I understand it, it's against Federal law to grow, possess and use marijuana. Using Alito's machine gun logic, if the pot you grow, possess and use never enters into interstate commerce, the Feds should have no regulatory rights.
What am I missing here?
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