Texas Gun Club Files Lawsuit Over 1986 Automatic Weapons Ban

The Second Amendment has long been under attack in America, as Democrats for years have done their absolute best to try and take guns away from citizens. It has gone on since the 1970s and has only been exacerbated with time. From ridiculous modification bans to full-fledged bans on automatic weapons, the overreach has become so apparent that finally, groups are fighting back.

Recently in Texas, the Temple Gun Club filed a lawsuit challenging a 1986 law that banned the ownership of automatic weapons after that year. They argued that needed to be done under the Constitution's Commerce Clause, and that this whole ban was about interstate commerce. In reality, it was just a somewhat successful effort at hampering gun owners.

Conservative attorney Michele Maples says this gun club has a solid argument.

"A couple of members have said this is an overreach by Congress...we want to convert our firearms we currently own to fully automatic, and we should be able to do that," she says.

Congress has long run amok, doing whatever they please without any real repercussions. They fail to do the will of the American people and fail to put any safeguards up that protect our Constitutional rights the majority of the time. They have become borderline useless puppets. So, expecting them to take any kind of meaningful action on this would be delusional. They cannot even pass the SAVE Act, which 80-percent of Americans want.

Arguing Commerce also holds no weight because this is about individual ownership, not some kind of gaming of the commerce system.

"These are just people who own and possess a firearm capable of being converted to a machine gun. I think that is a great argument," says Maples. "This law right now bans possession, which has nothing to do with interstate commerce...therefore, it should fail."

After all, what these members want is nothing to do with crossing state lines to sell guns. They just want to convert firearms, they legally own, into an automatic weapon. Last time anyone checked, there should be nothing wrong with that as a free American.

Maples notes the lawsuit as well has a better chance of succeeding in the courts, rather than relying on Congress for any action.