Yeah, Jared, don’t they have a settlement with rare breed triggers? Oh, they do. Wait till you see what else they have. And when you actually read what they filed, you realize something pretty disturbing. This isn’t about patents. This isn’t about infringement. This isn’t even about machine guns. This is the Department of Justice, the most pro to a Department of Justice in history. Isn’t that right, red flag Bondi? The most pro to a Department of Justice openly admitting it wants to limit the sale and distribution of forced reset triggers even after the Supreme Court told them they can’t rewrite laws.

Yeah, it’s the same item that they have gone into an agreement with rare breed triggers to make them enforce their patent and thus sue all the other manufacturers, either out of business or sue them for patent infringement, in an attempt, in my mind, in an attempt to, I guess, financially bury everybody else so there’s only one left, or in the process, financially destroy rare breeds so that there’s none left. And I think that’s what the DOJ wants. I really, really think that’s what they want here. So I’m going to tell you about what is going on here.

I’m going to break that down for you line by line and explain exactly why this position violates the Second Amendment, because apparently the Department of Justice and the US government can’t figure that shit out. All right, let’s start with what this document is because content context matters. This is a statement of interest filed by the United States Department of Justice acting on behalf of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It is civil patent case between rare breed triggers and Hoffman Tactical. Hoffman Tactical, the super safety. The Department of Justice is not a party in the lawsuit.

They weren’t sued. They aren’t even being prosecuted on this. They injected themselves into the case under 28 U.S.C. Section 517, which allows the DOJ to appear any time it believes the interest of the United States is involved. And right away, a DOJ tells the court exactly why it’s here. They said the ATF has a strong interest in promoting the safe use of firearms and in discouraging unregulated manufacture of forced reset triggers. That sentence alone should make every gun owner stop and reread it because nowhere in federal law is the ATF given authority to regulate firearm accessories, simply because it claims it has a strong interest.

I have a strong interest in disbanding the ATF, but they’re still there. You can’t disband them. They’re just still there. Now, real quick, I want to thank CMMG for sponsoring this channel all the time, sticking with us through the years. If you are looking for a workhorse tool with reliability and dependability that you can trust just like I do, whether it’s for home defense or competition, CMMG’s tools are top tier. I’ve told you before, I’ve taken my banshee all across the country in trainings over the last couple years, and it’s just a workhorse. It just keeps going.

As Johnny says, it runs like a scalded dog. I’ve even paired it with a CMMG Zeroed can, and it’s chef’s kiss. American-made quality that I depend on, and you can too, and you know CMMG, you can use CMMG 10 and be happy. I appreciate y’all. All right, here’s where the mask comes off. In section three of this filing, titled simply statement, the Department of Justice spells out its position in plain English. Quote, the ATF has an interest in limiting the sale and distribution of FRTs, end quote. Not classifying them, not regulating them under a statute, not enforcing a law passed by Congress, but limiting their sale and distribution.

That’s a policy goal, not a legal authority. And you know what, after the last couple days with this administration’s policy, at least policy, I’ll look in the Second Amendment, I don’t give a rat’s ass what they care anymore. And the DOJ admits that this interest exists even after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Garland versus Cargill, where the Supreme Court held ATF exceeded its authority by classifying bump stocks as machine guns. FRTs work on the exact same premise as a bump stock. The DOJ even acknowledges that ruling. They said the Supreme Court subsequently held that ATF exceeded its statutory authority.

They said that. So let’s be very clear. The Supreme Court told ATF you don’t get to rewrite statutes. DOJ’s response is not humility. No, no, no. Oh, no, no, no. It’s finding another way to choke off access anyway. This is the most dangerous part of the filing and almost almost missed it. If you’re not paying attention, DOJ openly argues that private patent enforcement should be used as a tool of public safety enforcement. They say that if rare breed succeeds in shutting down competitors through patent injunctions, that would support ATF’s public safety efforts and if successful in enjoining use of FRTs by third parties.

Let that sink in. The federal government is telling a court that private lawsuits should be leveraged to eliminate access to a firearm component that Congress has not banned. ATF and DOJ have no freaking say and they just can’t handle it. That is regulation without legislation. That is enforcement without due process. That is gun control by proxy. And that is what your administration truly thinks about the gun owners that they leaned on to get elected and they think they’ll be successful again in the midterms. And I am starting to have serious doubts. And it sets an incredibly dangerous precedent.

If this logic stands, what stops DOJ from encouraging lawsuits against magazine manufacturers or patent pressure on optics or civil actions to suppress firearm parts that they just don’t like? Now let’s tie this directly to the Second Amendment. Under Bruin, the government must show regulation is rooted in the text of the Second Amendment and it is consistent with the historical tradition of firearm regulation here in America. The DOJ does neither. You know why? Because they can’t. Forced reset triggers are mechanical components. They’re used in semi-automatic firearms. They’re owned by law-abiding citizens and they are not full-auto.

They are bearable arms or integral components of bearable arms, which places them squarely under the Second Amendment protections. And importantly, the Department of Justice does not claim Congress banned them. DOJ does not point to historical analogues. DOJ relies entirely on public safety interests. But Bruin explicitly rejected that balancing test. Public safety is not a blank check. And Cargill confirms something else critical here. The ATF cannot redefine single function of the trigger just because it dislikes how fast something can fire. If they could, my friend Jerry Mitchellk would be in federal prison. So when the Department of Justice says forced reset triggers raise difficult questions, what they really mean is, we lost in court but we still want total control and we’re going to figure out any way we could possibly do it.

That’s not law enforcement. That’s bureaucratic bullshit and defiance. This filing should concern every gun owner. Even if you’ve never owned a forced reset trigger or you think they’re just some ranged toy. Because what DOJ is really arguing is this. If we can’t ban it directly, we’ll restrict it indefinitely. We’ll pressure manufacturers. We’ll encourage injunctions and quietly dry up supply. And that’s how rights die. Not in Congress, but in courtrooms and regulatory filings. But most people never read those. Now this is why staying informed matters. Because while politicians talk, usually from there you know what, the Department of Justice is already moving.

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