SJC Nominee Alito dissented on the ban on machine guns

[Jeremiah]

Something at the Corner caught my eye this morning:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/05_10_30_corner-archive.asp#081332

(in that post's blockquote)

What should be far more troubling to Senate Democrats, however, is Alito's 1996 dissent from a decision upholding the constitutionality of a federal law prohibiting the possession of machine guns. Applying the logic of the Constitution in Exile for all it's worth, Alito insisted that the private possession of machine guns was not an economic activity, and there was no empirical evidence that private gun possession increased violent crime in a way that substantially affected commerce--therefore, Congress has no right to regulate it.

The NRA should be twisting arms behind the scenes....