BOSTON (WWLP) – Massachusetts Attorney General (AG) Andrea Campbell announced that following a lawsuit, thousands of machine-gun conversion devices will not be returned or sold in Massachusetts.
Following an executive order in February, President Trump has planned to return forced reset triggers (FRT), a type of machine-gun conversion device, throughout the United States. This was a reversal of a Biden administration classification of FRTs as “prohibited machine guns under federal law,” during which time 12,000 devices were seized.
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In May, the Justice Department announced a settlement with Rare Breed Triggers, the country’s largest seller of FRTs. The company agreed not to design any triggers for handguns and to promote safe use, and the Trump administration agreed not to enforce any policy where FRTs are classified as machine guns, and return all seized and surrendered devices by September 30.
As a result, AG Campbell, along with a coalition of 15 other AGs, filed a lawsuit in June to block the Trump administration from redistributing FRTs throughout the country. Campbell stated that machine-gun conversion devices dramatically increase a firearm’s rate of fire and have been used often in mass shootings…