Rare Breed’s FRT-15, an after-market device for AR-15-style rifles that allows them to shoot seemingly as fast as fully automatic weapons. A lawsuit includes numerous civil fraud counts against Rare Breed, alleging the company defrauded customers by telling them the triggers are legal and conspired to defraud the government by failing to get ATF approval before selling the devices. Photo: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives via AP
U.S. District Judge Nina Morrison of the Eastern District of New York on Tuesday granted the U.S. Department of Justice’s request for a preliminary injunction against a company accused of selling machine gun conversion devices that are illegal to possess in the United States.
Morrison found that the government is likely to succeed on the merits of its claims about the company, Rare Breed Triggers, which earned approximately $39 million in revenue from the sale of about 100,000 conversion devices, known as FRT-15 triggers, in less than two years.
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