
Finally a win for gun owners! On Sunday, May 18. 2025, USA Today published an article headlined, “Trump admin allows devices that let some weapons shoot as fast as machine guns.”
President Donald Trump’s administration agreed to permit the sale and possession of devices that let gun enthusiasts convert semiautomatic rifles into weapons that can shoot as fast as machine guns.
The agreement came in a settlement announced by the Department of Justice resolving lawsuits brought under Trump’s Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, after his administration banned certain “forced-reset triggers.”
“This Department of Justice believes that the 2nd Amendment is not a second-class right,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement, referring to the constitutional right to bear arms. “And we are glad to end a needless cycle of litigation with a settlement that will enhance public safety.”
The deal was condemned by Vanessa Gonzalez, vice president of government and political affairs at the gun control group Giffords, who said “the Trump administration has just effectively legalized machine guns.”
“Lives will be lost because of his actions,” she said.
In 2022, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives notified firearms licensees that it had determined some such devices constituted illegal machine guns under the National Firearms Act.
The DOJ a year later filed a lawsuit in New York against a company that made and distributed such devices nationwide, Rare Breed Triggers, leading to a court ruling blocking it from continuing to sell them.
In moving to prevent the sale of such devices, the Biden administration cited the frequency at which AR-15-style semiautomatic firearms have been used in mass shootings nationwide.
“These half-wits that complain guns kill are out of their minds.” said Thomas Robb, defender of our Second Amendment right and National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, based in Harrison, Arkansas. “It’s delusional to say or even think that guns kill. Guns don’t kill, it’s the maniac behind the gun that kills. I keep a firearm at my bedside and not once has it ever left the house to kill someone while I was sleeping. I can account for its whereabouts at all times. My firearm isn’t violent. Now should should someone break into my house, my firearm wouldn’t kill an intruder unless I am behind the trigger. This may sound silly, but it’s a fact. In the United States, 37 people a day are killed by drunk drivers. That’s 1 person every 39 minutes. In 2021, 13,384 people were killed by drunk drivers. Was the vehicle they were driving responsible for those deaths, or was it the driver? Should we eliminate vehicles, or insist on smaller engines so drunks can’t drive as fast? Or maybe punish the vehicle by sending it to the junk yard? The idea of blaming a vehicle for a drunk driver hitting and killing someone sounds pretty absurd doesn’t it? It’s no more absurd than blaming a firearm for killing someone, yet these people against gun ownership think it’s the best thing to do. Our forefathers wrote the Second Amendment not to protect gun ownership for hunting, but instead as a way to protect ourselves from criminals and a tyrannical government. If you don’t have a means to have the same types of weapons as criminals, or the government, how safe are we?”