2A – ATF Starts Returning Forced Reset Triggers to Their Owners
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is starting to return forced reset triggers (FRT) to their owners.
The ATF has been battling the gun industry over FRTs for years, and in 2022, Rare Breed Triggers started selling the FRT-15. The FRT-15 is a forced reset trigger. In an FRT, the bolt carrier group forces the trigger forward after a shot is fired from an AR-15-style firearm. This action causes the trigger to reset, allowing the user to increase the rate of fire.
In the spring of 2022, a Washington, DC, ATF employee saw a video of the FRT-15. Convinced that it was an auto sear, he sent the footage to ATF’s Firearms and Ammunition Technology Division (FATD) in Martinsburg, West Virginia. A firearms examiner watched the video and stated that he believed the FRT-15 was a drop in auto-sear (DIAS). Due to the popularity of the FRT-15, the ATF could not get their hands on one to test it to confirm it was a machinegun conversion device (MCD).
The DC employee didn’t give up and continued to reach out to FATD but kept getting rebuked due to the trigger’s lack of availability. The employee contacted a Florida field office that was interested in taking up the fight. The ATF field office acquired two FRT-15 triggers from Gun Broker and sent them to FATD for testing.
A firearms examiner from FATD would test the triggers. The test consisted of zip-tying the trigger back. The ATF claimed that the firearm fired multiple shots. The problem with the test is that the zip tie is elastic, so it is possible that the trigger reset before the second shot was fired. That would mean that one round was expelled per function of the trigger. According to federal statutes, a machine gun must fire more than one round per the function of the trigger.
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