Overview

• The Department of Justice has settled litigation with Rare Breed Triggers, allowing the sale and possession of forced-reset triggers, which enable semiautomatic rifles to fire more rapidly.
• The agreement reverses the Biden administration's classification of forced-reset triggers as illegal machine guns under the National Firearms Act.
• The settlement includes conditions requiring Rare Breed Triggers to avoid designing these devices for use in handguns and to enforce patents to prevent misuse.
• All forced-reset triggers previously seized or voluntarily surrendered to the government will be returned to their owners as part of the settlement.
• Gun control advocates, including Giffords' Vanessa Gonzalez, have condemned the decision, warning it could worsen gun violence by effectively legalizing rapid-fire devices.