Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas ruled in favor of the National Association for Gun Rights over the U.S. Justice Department and ATF on the federal forced reset trigger ban.
O’Connor’s ruling took the same approach that the Supreme Court did in overturning the ban on bump stock devices in June by focusing on ATF’s interpretation of laws restricting the possession of machine guns.
It stated that although forced reset triggers enable a user to fire weapons at a faster rate than normal triggers, they do not meet the statutory definition of a machine gun because they do not enable guns to fire multiple rounds with a “single function of the trigger.”
Hannah Hill, Executive Director of the National Foundation for Gun Rights (National Association for Gun Rights’ legal arm) said:
“We are absolutely thrilled that the court has dealt such a decisive blow to the ATF’s unconstitutional agency overreach. The ATF under the Biden/Harris regime has utterly trampled the Constitution and the rule of law in their eagerness to destroy the Second Amendment. The ATF may appeal this ruling, but precedent and momentum are both on our side, and we fully anticipate the absolute end of the ATF’s unlawful, unconstitutional ban on forced reset triggers.”
This ruling represents a decisive win not just for NAGR and its 4.5 million members and supporters, but also for Rare Breed Triggers and its customers, who have been unlawfully targeted by the ATF and the Biden/Harris Department of Justice.
The ruling can be viewed here.
Read more at Washington Post.
