"Brooklyn Judge Deems Special Triggers Transforming Rifles into Illegal Machine Guns"

A federal judge in Brooklyn has issued a preliminary injunction banning firearms company Rare Breed Triggers from selling a trigger device that can turn a legal, semiautomatic rifle into an illegal machine gun. The judge agreed with federal prosecutors that the company's FRT-15 trigger is likely illegal and accused the company of misleading customers into believing the triggers were legal. Rare Breed Triggers has sold approximately 100,000 potentially illegal triggers, bringing in $39 million in less than two years. The ruling is part of a larger legal debate about the definition of a machine gun and the ATF's authority to regulate firearms, which is likely to go before the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming months.