That’s the headline from Washington Post.

When Robert Leider became chief counsel at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in March, agency employees briefed him about a controversial device known as a “forced reset trigger,” according to people familiar with the discussions. The device allows semiautomatic weapons to fire more rapidly, and ATF had classified them as machine guns, effectively making them illegal.

That classification was challenged in court, with gun owners and manufacturers represented by legal teams that included David Warrington, who has since become President Donald Trump’s White House counsel. Now the Trump administration was considering reversing the Biden-era classification.

In a bid to explain the classification, ATF workers took Leider to a shooting range to see how the triggers operate, according to people familiar with the outing, who like others interviewed spoke on the condition of anonymity because they feared retribution. At the end of the process, Leider, an Antonin Scalia Law School professor and gun rights attorney, agreed: The devices were dangerous, and the classification as machine guns should stand, the people said.

But Leider’s opinion did not prevail. After tense conversations between Leider and powerful Justice Department officials, including Emil Bove, principal associate deputy attorney general, the department announced late Friday that it was settling the litigation, clearing the way for the items to be sold and used.

Under the terms of the settlement, “forced reset triggers” will remain legal so long as their manufacturer refrains from developing similar devices for pistols and enforces its patents to stop copycats, Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement.

“This Department of Justice believes that the 2nd Amendment is not a second-class right,” Bondi said. “And we are glad to end a needless cycle of litigation with a settlement that will enhance public safety.”

It’s funny how the WaPo titled this missive. “Pro gun lawyer.” Pro gun indeed.

We should be able to own machine guns without having to go through the trouble of using FRTs. I think the author and I have a different definition of pro gun. That he graduated from the Antonin Scalia school of law is irrelevant to me.

Here is Tom Grieve explaining the details of the settlement.

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