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Knudsen Leads Effort Against Firearms Classification

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 28 states in filing an amicus brief against the Biden-Harris administration’s attempt to thwart the Second Amendment by classifying forced reset triggers as machine guns.

The brief, filed in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the National Association for Gun Rights, asks the court to affirm the lower court’s decision and reject the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives overreaching attempt to classify FRTs as machine guns under the Gun Control Act of 1968. The attorneys general argue that the classification stretches the definition of “machinegun” too far under the GCA as FRTs don’t fire “more than one shot…by a single function of the trigger.”

The ATF has a history of overstepping its statutory authority. In three recent cases, the court has halted the ATF’s “misadventures.”

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