After Suing, WA Gets Carveout From Trump Administration Plan to Return Gun Conversion Devices • Washington State Standard

After suing, WA gets carveout from Trump administration plan to return gun conversion devices • Washington State Standard

Guns for sale at Caso’s Gun-A-Rama in Jersey City, New Jersey, which has been open since 1967. (Photo by Aristide Economopoulos/New Jersey Monitor)The Trump administration has agreed to not distribute devices that turn semi-automatic rifles into machine guns in Washington and other states where they are illegal. More than a dozen states sued the administration last month over its plan to return nearly 12,000 previously confiscated devices like f…

New Jersey Secures Exemption from Federal Distribution of Machine-Gun Conversion Devices After Multistate Lawsuit

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that the Trump Administration has agreed to exclude New Jersey and 15 other states from a controversial plan to distribute thousands of machine-gun conversion devices (MCDs), marking a significant legal victory in a multistate lawsuit led by New Jersey. The commitment, made in court filings as […]

AG Brown Announces Agreement Blocking Sales and Returns of Conversion Devices in Washington

SEATTLE, WA – Washington Attorney General Nick Brown announced Friday that the federal government and a manufacturer have agreed not to sell or return machine-gun conversion devices in Washington and 15 other jurisdictions. The agreement follows a multistate lawsuit filed in June, in which the attorneys general challenged plans to distribute forced reset triggers—devices that increase the rate of fire of semiautomatic firearms. According to cour…