ATF Open Letter to FFL's 3/22/2022 on Forced Reset Triggers

[dogtown tom]

While it doesn't cover all FRT's, I'm sure those who manufacture the verbotten ones will or already have turned over customer lists.

https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/o...en-letter-forced-reset-triggers-frts/download

ATF’s examination found that some FRT devices allow a firearm to automatically expel more than one shot with a single, continuous pull of the trigger. For this reason, ATF has concluded that FRTs that function in this way are a combination of parts designed and intended for use in converting a weapon into a machinegun, and hence, ATF has classified these devices as a “machinegun” as defined by the NFA and GCA. Accordingly, ATF’s position is that any FRT that allows a firearm to automatically expel more than one shot with a single, continuous pull of the trigger is a “machinegun”, and is accordingly subject to the GCA prohibitions regarding the possession, transfer, and transport of machineguns...

EDITED TO ADD:
This is nothing new, the definition of machine gun has not changed in many decades with the exception of the addition of bump stock being added a few years ago. (thanks Trump)

478.11
Machinegun Any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The term shall also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any part designed and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of parts designed and intended, for use in converting a weapon into a machine gun, and any combination of parts from which a machine gun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the control of a person. For purposes of this definition, the term “automatically” as it modifies “shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot,” means functioning as the result of a self-acting or self-regulating mechanism that allows the firing of multiple rounds through a single function of the trigger; and “single function of the trigger” means a single pull of the trigger and analogous motions. The term “machine gun” includes a bump-stock-type device, i.e., a device that allows a semi-automatic firearm to shoot more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger by harnessing the recoil energy of the semi-automatic firearm to which it is affixed so that the trigger resets and continues firing without additional physical manipulation of the trigger by the shooter.

 

[USSR1968]

While it doesn't cover all FRT's, I'm sure those who manufacture the verbotten ones will or already have turned over customer lists.

https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/o...en-letter-forced-reset-triggers-frts/download

Next thing you know , ATF will decide that this guy's finger is an NFA item:

 

[dogtown tom]

Next thing you know , ATF will decide that this guy's finger is an NFA item

Well no.
ATF cannot arbitrarily decide to add to the definition of machine gun or any other regulation, without going through the rulemaking process. And that requires the enabling federal law to permit such.

Bump stocks were added at the behest of the Trump Administration. ATF had ruled multiple times that a bump stock did not meet the definition of machine gun in federal law.
Trumps workaround was ordering the change in the definition of machine gun to include bump stocks.

To add "really quick fingers" would require a new federal law.