United States Ninth Circuit

Congress can use its commerce power to ban possession of homemade machineguns. Congress had a rational basis for concluding that in the aggregate, possession of homemade machineguns could substantially affect interstate commerce in machineguns.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/30/2006
• Published 06/30/2006

Judges

• KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:, Before: KOZINSKI and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Leuenberger, Lake Oswego, OR, for amicus curiae Oregon Firearms Educational Foundation., Sharon L. Browne, Arthur B. Mark, III, Sacramento, CA, for amicus curiae Pacific Legal Foundation.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas E. Haney, Phoenix, AZ, for the defendant-appellant., Paul K. Charlton, United States Attorney;  John Joseph Tuchi, Deputy Appellate Chief;  Joan G. Ruffennach, Assistant United States Attorney, Phoenix, AZ, for the plaintiff-appellee.