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 As the constitution says: “No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State…” then how can they tax firearms used in interstate commerce? 
 Import tax, not the export tax I guess 🫡 
 Not a bad thought, actually 
 Commerce clause

Starting in 1937, following the end of the Lochner era, the use of the Commerce Clause by Congress to authorize federal control of economic matters became effectively unlimited. The US Supreme Court restricted congressional use of the Commerce Clause somewhat with United States v. Lopez (1995).[