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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: BATF Folds Completely Over Forced-Reset Triggers
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 11:55:30 -0400
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On 5/17/2025 11:15 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>> 2025-05-16 11:16 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> 
>>> Awesome news. DOJ has settled the forced-reset trigger cases and agreed that
>>> BATF is prohibited by the terms of the settlement agreement from ever again
>>> contending that FRTs are a "machine-gun" or otherwise unlawful.
>   
>>> https://gunrightsfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/FRT-Settlement-Agreement-FINAL.pdf
> 
>>> I may very well go out and buy one of these for my rifle now just because I
>>> can.
>   
>> Aren't you worried about bad guys like the Vegas shooter using FRTs as
>> de facto machine guns?
> 
> Yes. I worry about assholes with guns who have decided to commit mass
> murder. He had brought a lot of rifles with him and plenty of ammunition.
> With or without the mechanism, he was a dangerous guy who made sure he'd
> be in position to kill numerous people. Without the mechanism, the only
> argument is that different people would have been killed, not that the
> crime would have been prevented.

"Different" people?  Not *fewer* people?


> He was rich. There were no circumstances in which anybody would have
> questioned him as he prepared to commit the crime.
> 
> Since there's nothing I can do about murderous rich assholes, I'm just
> going to live my life.

Murderous assholes mean to have a say about that...