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| 2024-07-25 | |
[Breitbart] U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor
Two of the plaintiffs in the case were Texas Gun Rights, Inc., and the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR). There were individual plaintiffs, as well. Plaintiffs sued the United States Attorney General, the ATF, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and others over the rule, which made it a felony to possess an FRT. Their suit centered on the ATF’s broadening of the term “machinegun” to include FRTs. An FRT is a trigger that resets a semiautomatic firearm’s trigger mechanically, thus allowing the gun to be fired faster. However, the gun still fires only one round per trigger pull. O’Connor noted the semiautomatic action of a firearm is not changed by the installation of an FRT: “When firing multiple shots using an FRT, the trigger must still reset after each round is fired and must separately function to release the hammer by moving far enough to rear in order to fire the next round.” He applied various court decisions regarding the ATF’s bump stock rule, noting, “FRTs do not fire multiple rounds with a single function of the trigger and, thus, do not qualify as machineguns.” The FRT rule is the second ATF rule O’Connor has vacated in 2024. On June 13, 2024, Breitbart News reported that O’Connor vacated the ATF’s AR pistol brace rule, noting that it violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Related: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms: 2024-07-19 How the FBI identified Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks within hours Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms: 2024-06-16 No Charges Filed in ATF Dawn Raid at 'Gun Dealers' Home Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms: 2024-04-09 Man arrested for setting Sen. Bernie Sanders’s office in Vermont on fire Related: Reed O’Connor 03/31/2023 Judge Strikes Down Key ObamaCare Provision Reed O’Connor 05/21/2021 Judge Blocks Biden Administration From Doling Out Grants Based on Race, Gender Reed O’Connor 10/16/2019 Federal judge overturns ObamaCare transgender protections | |
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