To be clear, all triggers should reset themselves under spring pressure. Although the FRT is not a firearm because it does not shoot a bullet via an explosive, it could still be a machine gun because it could be a \u201cpart\u2026designed and intended\u2026to convert a weapon into a machine gun.\u201d (It\u2019s always interesting to me how much propaganda is sometimes used in naming laws \u2013 banning machine guns protected firearm owners?)<\/p>\n
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It is unclear how allowing more people to own ARs that mimic machine guns will \u201cenhance public safety.\u201d The 2019 Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting in Las Vegas, in which 60 people were killed and over 400 were wounded, is an example of the damage one person can do with AR-15s modified to fire like machine guns using bump stocks. After Judge Reed O\u2019Connor struck down the ATF\u2019s actions classifying FRTs as machine guns, the DOJ appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Rare Breed Triggers sued the ATF in an attempt to continue selling FRTs twice, but after both cases were dismissed, the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR), an extreme gun rights group, filed a separate challenge in the Northern District of Texas. Thus, if a shooter pulls an FRT and holds it to the rear, the gun will continue firing like a machine gun. The administration\u2019s settlement with Rare Breed Triggers opens the floodgates for AR-15s that fire like machine guns. It is about the future of trigger innovation, patent boundaries, and whether established players can block newer, better-engineered alternatives through the courts.<\/p>\n