The US Department of Justice policy to classify firearms with added forced reset triggers as “machineguns” faces a legal challenge from Texas gun owners and sellers.
The National Association for Gun Rights, Texas Gun Rights, Inc., and several individual plaintiffs sued Justice Department officials in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Wednesday, accusing the department of making arbitrary and unlawful efforts to misclassify firearms with forced reset triggers under the 1934 National Firearms Act.
The plaintiffs alleged the department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives relied on a misinterpreted definition of a machine gun ...
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