During his testimony, Maxwell questioned why the ATF approved another company’s forced-reset trigger, the Tac-Con 3MR, which he said fires about as fast as the FRT-15.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in 2021 ordered Rare Breed Triggers to stop selling its model FRT-15 trigger, declaring the devices illegal machine guns.

Rare Breed started selling its forced-reset trigger, known as the FRT-15, nationwide in December 2020. The company’s attorney and owner, Kevin Maxwell, called the FRT-15 a legal semiautomatic ...

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During his testimony, Maxwell questioned why the ATF approved another company’s forced-reset trigger, the Tac-Con 3MR, which he said fires about as fast as the FRT-15. Another kind of rapid-fire ...

In court filings, the ATF said testing on the FRT-15 triggers showed their rate of fire can meet or exceed that the military’s M-16 machine gun, which can fire 700 to 970 rounds a minute.