Government Agrees Not to Send Forced Reset Triggers to 14 States

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives agreed not to return seized forced reset triggers to Washington, DC, and 14 states that sued the Trump administration after it promised not to enforce a Biden-era regulation on the devices, which replicate fully automatic fire.

The states subsequently dropped their bid for a preliminary injunction, which sought to bar the federal government from redistributing FRTs into the plaintiff states or to any entity that sells the devices within their borders, according to a July 11 filing in the US District Court for the District of Maryland.

The filing came after a ...