determine that a total ban on machine guns would have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.”), cert. denied, - U.S. -, 118 S.Ct. 584, 139 L.Ed.2d 422 (1997), vacated in part on other grounds, 133 F.3d 1412 (11th Cir.1998). A statute regulating noneconomic activity necessarily satisfies Lopez if it inclu d 188 (1997); United States v. Melina, 101 F.3d 567, 573 (8th Cir.1996) (rejecting the contention that the government must show a "substantial effect” to satisfy the interstate commerce requirement under § 844(D). This conclusion also is consistent with decisions of this court construing other statutes with the same relevant language as § 844(i)-namely, the "activity affecting interstate commerce" language. See United States v. Castlebery, 116 F.3d 1384, 1386-87 (11th Cir.1997) (<HOLDING>); United States v. McAllister, 77 F.3d 387, 390
holding that the government can satisfy the hobbs act interstate commerce requirement by showing that the robbery resulted in the closure of a business engaged in interstate commerce holding the limitations to congresss commerce clause authority recognized in lopez have no effect on the establishment of the interstate commerce element of the hobbs act holding after lopez that the interstate nexus element of the hobbs act still requires the government to show only a minimal connection to interstate commerce holding in the context of the predecessor statute to  922g that the interstate commerce element is met by demonstrating a minimal nexus holding that  844i requires the government only to establish a minimal connection between the property at issue and some aspect of interstate commerce