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Machine-gun conversion devices will not be redistributed in Minnesota following lawsuit • Minnesota Reformer [1]

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Date: 2025-07

Devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns will no longer be redistributed in Minnesota following a lawsuit from Attorney General Keith Ellison against the Trump administration.

Ellison sued the administration with 15 other attorneys general after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, agreed to stop enforcing a federal rule prohibiting forced reset triggers. These devices, which significantly increase a gun’s rate of fire, were previously classified as machine guns by the ATF; machine guns are illegal to possess under federal and state law.

Lawsuits filed during the Biden administration brought the ban on forced reset triggers into dispute. While one federal judge in New York upheld the prohibition, a Texas judge ruled that the devices aren’t machine guns under federal law. That ruling was then under appeal.

In May, the Trump administration announced a settlement, causing the ATF to stop enforcing the ban on forced reset triggers. The ATF planned to redistribute the devices — which the agency previously called machine guns — that it had already confiscated.

Minnesota and the 15 other states involved in Ellison’s lawsuit will now be exempt from the results of that settlement. Rare Breed Triggers, the largest seller of forced reset triggers in the U.S., also agreed not to sell the devices in Minnesota and the other coalition states.

Ellison’s lawsuit argued that the use of machine-gun conversion devices has been fueling gun violence. The ATF recovered 5,454 of these devices between 2017 and 2021, a 570% increase over the previous five-year period. Firearm homicides increased between 2018 and 2022 in Minnesota; most gun homicides did not involve the devices, and the state’s overall firearm mortality rate remains low compared to the rest of the country.

“Machine guns have no place on Minnesota streets, nor do devices that turn semi-automatic firearms into machine guns,” Ellison said in a press release. “By making firearms far more deadly, these devices threaten the safety of both the public and members of law enforcement.”

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