In what can only be described as a triumph of logic and legal responsibility, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a settlement in its case against Rare Breed Triggers over their forced reset trigger (FRT). As you might expect, the gun control community was positively apoplectic and immediately began spreading even more lies.
According to the extremist gun control community.
“The Trump administration has just effectively legalized machine guns. Lives will be lost because of his actions.”
“FRTs automatically return forward, or reset, after being pulled. Thus, if a shooter pulls an FRT and holds it to the rear, the gun will continue firing like a machine gun.”
“These modifications pose a danger to the public because they could lead to significantly more victims in mass shootings, yet they serve no legitimate purpose for, say, hunting or home defense.”
Back in the world of reality…
In announcing the settlement with Rare Breed Triggers, the Attorney General said, “This Department of Justice believes that the [Second] Amendment is not a second-class right. And we are glad to end a needless cycle of litigation with a settlement that will enhance public safety.”
The settlement includes the DOJ dismissing three lawsuits involving Rare Breed Triggers, including a stop to erroneously enforcing federal machine gun regulations against the company and its patented FRTs for AR-style firearms, and returning confiscated FRTs to customers. Nothing in the agreement stops Rare Breed Triggers from developing FRTs for other semi-automatic rifles, including AKs, and other manufacturers may also see this as a green light to produce their own designs.
In exchange, Rare Breed Triggers has agreed not to produce or market FRTs for any handgun where the magazine loads into the trigger-hand grip. The settlement also requires Rare Breed Triggers to make “reasonable efforts” to protect its patent by seeking prohibitory injunctions against any person or entity that manufacture[s], sells, or distributes any FRT.
The WHY behind this settlement is just as important as the WHAT. Aside from the new administration’s promise to not treat the Second Amendment as a second-class right like the previous administration did, there is the whole Cargill case involving bump stocks.
While Cargill wasn’t a Second Amendment case per se, it did find the ATF exceeded its authority by independently reinterpreting the definition of a machine gun. The United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) also found since the shooter must pull the trigger between each round; a bump stock is NOT a machine gun.
So, a quick debunk of the gun control lies. FRTs are do not turn semi-automatic firearms into machine guns. Just because you changed the definition of machine gun to include FRTs (like you changed the definition of child to include 18- and 19-year-olds) does not make it a fact. A FRT trigger must RESET before the next shot, hence the name, forced reset trigger. If you hold the trigger to the rear, it will NOT reset and hence, not fire again until it is released to reset.
Then there is the, “they serve no legitimate purpose”. This goes back to one of the oldest, and least constitutional arguments of “need”. Firearm purchases, concealed carry permits, and even firearm designs had previously been denied because there was no evidence of a “special need” presented. The government, or more accurately here the gun control community controlling the ATF, is attempting to deny something they don’t like because THEY don’t believe it has a “legitimate purpose”, or “need”. Or, in other words, a privilege to be granted or denied by the government at will. Fortunately, SCOTUS has eliminated this as a regulatory policy in Bruen, but the lies continue.
Oh yea, and the Second Amendment isn’t about hunting. It is self-defense, it is sport shooting, it is collecting, it is herd management and protection, it is marksmanship, it is shooting for no other reason than you want to. It doesn’t have to have a “legitimate purpose”.
While this is a victory, it is a conditional and possibly temporary one. The DOJ agreement includes a provision preventing Rare Breed Triggers from developing products for certain style pistols. While there is nothing preventing other companies from doing this, as some already have, it is a limitation which might be invoked on other companies.
The settlement also doesn’t seem to preclude a future administration from coming in and reversing the decision. While I abhor the gamble and cost involved in getting a case to the Supreme Court, a decision there, or a denial of the DOJ’s appeal based on Cargill, would have provided a more permanent ruling to protect us from going through this in the future.
I’ll say it again. The only way to prevent this from happening is to stop electing people who are willing to take away our rights.
Bob
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