States Drop Suit Over DOJ Reversal on Forced Reset Gun Triggers

More than a dozen states and Washington, DC, dropped their challenge to the Trump administration’s decisions to stop enforcing restrictions on triggers that can replicate fully automatic fire and return devices seized under the Biden-era rule.

The federal government has adhered to its promise not to return forced reset triggers to the plaintiff states, their respective attorneys general said in a notice of voluntary dismissal filed Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Maryland. The Trump administration last year settled a lawsuit that challenged a 2021 regulation classifying forced reset triggers—which allow a firearm to maintain continuous ...