Consider guns. There is legislative law like NFA 1934, GCA 1968, etc. These laws make having a machine gun without a tax stamp a federal crime. The law defines machine gun as a gun that fires multiple rounds with one action from the trigger. But the regulatory agency (ATF) has decided that if something is too close to being a machine gun (easy to convert) it is also a machine gun with the same penalties. So they applied this to some weapons that fire from the open bolt as well, on the basis that they are easy to convert (there are some single shot open bolt fire weapons that are legal).

ATF has used regulation to expand weapons laws to apply to a lot of things not directly covered by the law. Recently the courts have struck down those regulations on bumpstocks and forced reset triggers (items that simulate full auto fire but are not technically full auto).

‘“A Modest Request”: The Supreme Court Hears Challenge To National Or Universal Injunctions’—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/modest-request-supreme-court-hears-challenge-national-or-universal-injunctions

Bullshit.

“Ending Nationwide Injunctions”—
https://www.civitasinstitute.org/research/ending-nationwide-injunctions
H/T Powerline blog.

Key graf:
“Our Constitution incorporates numerous veto points to prevent unlawful or unconsidered actions, but it is not designed to paralyze the presidency.“

There is a entire industry based on these laws and regulations, the other Leviathian, not orange, BTW.

Watt and T,
I agree that Congress should not be able or willing to write legislation that defers any law making equivalence to the executive branch agencies. And especially so for laws that designate criminal penalties and direct the executive agencies to define or develop the “details” on how or when a crime has been committed in response to “their” legislation.
Congress as an institution is no longer what our Founders envisioned it should be.

The decline of federalism is buried in this issue as well. I guess that decline really started with the Civil War? Or perhaps earlier with some folks desiring a national bank to aid their interstate commerce? By the time the Progressives, the 16th and 17th Amendments, FDR, WWII, the Cold War, and the Great Society came along, the national government was bribing the states, which buckled under that onslaught to their sovereignty.

(Gotta love that “defer to REASONABLE agency interpretations”. Reasonable according to whom??! The “follow-the-experts” brigades? The “follow-the-science” comrades? Talk about Trojan horses…. They could have—WHAT were they thinking?—killed the Republic with that…. Almost did…and I’m not certain we’re out of the woods yet…)
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Meanwhile (and perhaps related),
Schwabbing the decks…
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2025/05/14/the-unraveling-of-the-king-of-davos/
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2025/04/27/klaus-schwab-the-last-davos-man/