Alarming fact about background checks.

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63. You can stretch the commerce clause pretty far

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

Essentially arguing that by growing wheat for himself, the farmer was not purchasing on the open market, and was therefore affecting the market price, affecting interstate commerce.

You could essentially use the same logic that private sales of firearms impact market price of firearms, therefore falling under the commerce clause.

I don't think UBC's were overlooked, I suspect it was that they'd be hard to implement, would impose a burden on some people (for example, what happens if you live three hours from the nearest licensed dealer?), and at the time they would have been so wildly unpopular that it would have jeopardized the rest of the bill.