FILE - An AR-15 style rifle is fired, at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), National Services Center, Thursday, March 2, 2023, in Martinsburg, W.Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon ...

Sixteen states have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its plan to permit the sale of forced-reset triggers (FRTs). The triggers are a type of firearm mechanism that allows a rifle ...

Forced-reset triggers became a headline machine because they sit at the intersection of gadget culture, legal definitions, and enforcement whiplash. The “quiet” part isn’t that nobody cared—people ...

Maryland is among 16 states that have sued the Trump administration over its plan to allow the sale of forced-reset triggers that make semiautomatic rifles fire more rapidly and return devices already ...

Washington has joined 14 other states and the District of Columbia in challenging a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives plan to return seized “forced reset triggers,” a device the ...

When Robert Leider became chief counsel at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in March, agency employees briefed him about a controversial device known as a “forced reset trigger, ...

A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a Biden administration ban on forced reset triggers, devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire at faster rates, citing the Supreme Court’s decision to ...

SEATTLE, Wash. – Forced reset triggers, which accelerate the rate of fire of an AR-15 and are accused of essentially converting guns to machine guns, that had been seized by a federal department were ...