Federal Court gets restraining order against company selling machine guns
Sales of a device that prosecutors claim was designed to get around machine gun laws were halted on Thursday when a judge from the Eastern District of New York granted a temporary restraining order against the companies that were illegally selling them.
The devices are called FRT-15s and they are designed to convert AR-15 rifles into machine guns. prosecutors said that since the devices are designed and intended to be used to convert AR-15s into machine guns, that they themselves are machine guns under federal law, and thus illegal under the National Firearms Act and Gun Control Act of 1968.
Prosecutors filed for a temporary restraining order to halt the sale of FRT-15s on Jan. 19, and on Jan. 25, Hon. Nina Morrison entered the order that halted a company called Rare Breed Firearms from selling them.
“The defendants are illegally selling machine guns, plain and simple, with conversion devices that transform AR-15 type rifles into even more lethal weapons suited 2 for battlefields, not our communities,” said U.S. Attorney Breon Peace.