The Trump Administration reverses the rule on Forced Reset Triggers (FRTs). As usual, the mainstream media gets the rule change, and a recent Justice Department settlement, wrong. Here’s an example from NBC News:
“The Justice Department on Friday announced a settlement in a lawsuit brought by the National Association for Gun Rights. The lawsuit challenged an ATF rule banning “forced reset triggers” — devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire rapid bursts of bullets.”
We all know the definition of a machine gun or fully automatic weapon is a firearm that allows continuous automatic fire with a single pull of the trigger. FRTs do not do that. They allow one shot with a pull of the trigger, and a second with its release.
In the final paragraph of their article, even NBC News stated that the correct definition of a machine gun was affirmed by the Supreme Court:
“The Supreme Court ruled by a 6-3 margin last year that the bump stock ban was unlawful. The majority concluded the devices did not meet the definition of a machine gun because they didn’t allow for automatic fire with the single pull of a trigger.”
HOW DOES THAT IMPACT IOWANS?
Per our Board Member Richard Rogers, (as written about by Michael Ware in a recent IFC blog):
Iowa Code 724.29 was enacted in 1990 as a reaction to the introduction of bolt-on trigger cranks. The law prohibits the sale or offering for sale of “a manual or power-driven trigger activating device constructed and designed so that when attached to a firearm increases the rate of fire of the firearm”. (See below and at link.) It does NOT prohibit the possession or use of such devices.
FRTs, binary triggers, and the like are replacement triggers. They are NOT “trigger activating devices” and were not designed until decades after the enactment of this statute.
THE HUGE TAKEAWAY HERE IS IN THE DOJ PRESS RELEASE
All of this might be just a quick review of the Iowa Code and Federal Regulations except for two things. Those two things are in the following statements by the U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi:
“This Department of Justice believes that the 2nd Amendment is not a second-class right,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement. “And we are glad to end a needless cycle of litigation with a settlement that will enhance public safety.”…
…“will bind itself, in perpetuity, not to enforce the machine gun ban against any device that functions like forced reset triggers,”
I highlight these statements because it has sent those dangerous quacks on the left into orbit with rage. It is also welcome news by those of us fighting the good fight daily to protect your 2A Rights as we continue to rack up win after win in the courts.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT BY SIXTEEN STATES TO STOP THIS SETTLEMENT
Sixteen states were so desperate that they submitted a 100-page plea in the 5th Circuit Court to stop this. The judges there slapped that away by not even acknowledging the filing. Those states had no standing to intervene as explained in detail by Mark A. Smith of the Four Boxes Diner here. Mark’s short video is well worth watching.
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