Middle ground idea on gun control: Gun Insurance

[Xithras]

44. For a different reason

Healthcare coverage was upheld because failure to purchase impacted insurance buyers in other states. Interstate commerce was impacted by the lack of purchase, which gave the federal government some power to mandate.

Because no existing insurance market exists here, the federal government can't make the same argument.

The Supreme Court ruling did not grant carte blanche to the federal government to mandate any and every purchase they want. It simply affirmed their current right to regulate existing interstate markets (in that case, the interstate health insurance market). I can't possibly see the Supreme Court extending that ability to creating new markets, mandating them, and then regulating them nationally. Doing that would essentially be giving the government an open invitation to mandate anything they want, any time they want.