The ATF Director Refused To Bend The Law On FRTs
June 7, 2026
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as posted by the channelA U.S. Senator sat in a federal hearing and tried to tell the ATF how a machine gun should be defined.
His argument?
Rate of fire.
But there’s one problem: rate of fire is not what the law says.
The National Firearms Act defines a machine gun by whether it fires more than one round by a single function of the trigger. Forced reset triggers still require one trigger pull for every round fired.
That’s why the DOJ already conceded in 2025 that the Rare Breed FRT-15 is not a machine gun.
And when Senator Jack Reed pushed ATF Director Robert Cekada to treat FRTs like machine guns anyway, Cekada said the quiet part out loud: rate of fire is not how the statute defines a machine gun.
Then Reed gave away the whole game.
He said the statute should be changed.
Which means he knows FRTs are legal under the law as written right now.
This is the real gun control playbook: when the law doesn’t give them the ban they want, they try to redefine the words until legal gun owners become felons overnight.
FRTs aren’t machine guns.
They just want to change the definition until they are.
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