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UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Mark Dewayne DUNLAP, Appellant.
    No. 06-1152.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
    Submitted May 18, 2006.
    Filed May 24, 2006.
    Rose A. Barber, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Springfield, MO, for Appellee.
    David R. Mercer, Michelle K. Nahon, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Springfield, MO, for Appellant.
    Mark Dewayne Dunlap, Memphis, TN, pro se.
    Before WOLLMAN, BOWMAN, and RILEY, Circuit Judges.
   [UNPUBLISHED]

PER CURIAM.

Mark Dewayne Dunlap (Dunlap) pled guilty to producing child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) and (d). The district court sentenced Dunlap to 151 months’ imprisonment. Dunlap appeals, arguing subsections 2251(a) and (d) are unconstitutional as applied to the facts of his case, because the child pornography images were not transported in interstate or foreign commerce, thus the statutes criminalize purely intrastate production and possession of child pornography. Dunlap admittedly used a camera and film that had traveled in interstate commerce. Dunlap’s specific argument is foreclosed by our precedent. See United States v. Mugan, 441 F.3d 622, 628-30 (8th Cir. 2006) (holding federal statutes prohibiting the local production of child pornography using materials that have moved in interstate commerce are a permissible exercise of Congress’s authority under the Commerce Clause, and homegrown child pornography enters the national market surreptitiously, feeds the national market, and stimulates demand for child pornography, demonstrating “the intrastate production and possession of child pornography is an economic activity connected to interstate commerce”); cf. Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1, 125 S.Ct. 2195, 2209, 162 L.Ed.2d 1 (2005).

Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. 
      
      . The Honorable Richard E. Dorr, United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri.