TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on Sep 5, 2023

The U.S. government has won a court injunction blocking the sale of after-market triggers that allow gun owners to convert AR-15 style rifles into weapons that can shoot as fast as machine guns, reports Reuters. U.S. District Judge Nina Morrison ruled the Department of Justice was likely to prove that the "forced-reset triggers" sold by Rare Breed Triggers LLC and its owners were illegal machine guns under federal law. Rifles equipped with Rare Breed's FRT-15 triggers are capable of firing 700 rounds a minute, faster than military-grade M-16 machine guns. In a 129-page decision, Morrison said the defendants defrauded customers by claiming the triggers were "absolutely" legal, despite having failed to win Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives approval for their sale.