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Ban on Aftermarket Trigger Lifted by Justice Department Deal, Triggering Concerns Among Gun Control Advocates

    Justice Department deal ends a ban on an aftermarket trigger. Gun control advocates are alarmed
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    WASHINGTON – A settlement announced by the Justice Department on Friday will allow the sale of forced-reset triggers, enabling semiautomatic rifles to fire more rapidly. As part of the agreement, the federal government is ending a long-standing ban and will return seized devices that had previously been classified as machine guns under federal law.

    The resolution marks a significant shift in Second Amendment policy during the Republican administration. The settlement concludes a series of cases related to the aftermarket trigger, with the government overturning regulations that were established by the previous Democratic administration under President Joe Biden, aimed at curbing gun violence.

    “This Department of Justice believes that the 2nd Amendment is not a second-class right,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement.

    Gun control advocates said the settlement would worsen gun violence.

    Vanessa Gonzalez, vice president of government and political affairs at GIFFORDS, a gun control group, expressed concerns over the impact of the decision: “The Trump administration has just effectively legalized machine guns. Lives will be lost because of his actions.”

    There had been several legal battles over forced-reset triggers, which replace the typical trigger on an AR-15-style rifle. The government for years had argued they are essentially illegal machine gun conversion devices because constant finger pressure on the triggers will keep a rifle firing essentially like an automatic.

    The deal announced Friday was between the Justice Department and Rare Breed Triggers, which was previously represented by David Warrington, Trump’s current White House counsel. Rare Breed Triggers argued that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was wrong in its classification and ignored demands to stop selling the triggers before being sued by the Biden administration.

    “This victory is a landmark moment in the fight against unchecked government overreach,” Lawrence DeMonico, the group’s president, said in a statement. “The ATF and DOJ tried to silence and bury us not because we broke the law, but because I refused to bend to the will of a tyrannical administration.”

    Under the settlement, Rare Breed Triggers has agreed not to develop such devices to be used on handguns, according to the Justice Department. The settlement requires the ATF to return triggers that it had seized or that owners had voluntarily surrendered to the government.

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