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May 21, 2025
LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and a coalition of 16 attorneys general recently renewed a motion to intervene in National Association for Gun Rights v. Bondi, which was pending in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The coalition sought to intervene to defend ATF’s decision to prohibit Forced Reset Triggers (FRTs) nationwide, a machine gun conversion device that allows owners to illegally convert their firearms into fully automatic weapons with the firepower of a military machine gun.
In that case, the U.S. Department of Justice, under the prior Administration, had defended the ATF’s characterization of FRTs as machine guns under federal law, making them illegal. However, the U.S. Department of Justice changed course and moved to dismiss the appeal, following a settlement with the plaintiffs. The multistate coalition promptly moved to intervene and defend the law.
On Monday, however, the Fifth Circuit dismissed the appeal, as requested by the Department of Justice, and did not rule on the multistate coalition’s motion to intervene.
Attorney General Nessel issued the following statement in response:
“Allowing devices that turn semi-automatic weapons into machine guns is dangerous, and these Forced Reset Triggers have no place in our communities. Banning them should be the bare minimum if we want to combat the gun violence epidemic. I am disappointed by the Court’s decision and alarmed by the consequences for public safety, but I remain committed to using every legal tool at my disposal to protect Michigan families from the threat of senseless gun violence.”
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