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by int_19h 2721 days ago
> using or affecting any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce

That's a legal cliche that's basically necessary for the law to be constitutional. But what "interstate commerce" means in practice is not just products crossing state lines. An infamous Supreme Court decision ruled that growing your own wheat for personal consumption "affects interstate commerce", for example.

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