A federal court judge from Brooklyn halted the sale of FRT-15s, a product that is designed to turn AR-15s into machine guns, when she issued a temporary restraining order against the company that is making them. Photo courtesy of the Eastern District of New York
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.
Rare Breed Triggers, LLC and Rare Breed Firearms, LLC are owned and operated by Lawrence DeMonico, also known as Larry R. Lee, Jr., and Kevin Maxwell. The complaint filed against them alledges that they have unlawfully sold thousands of FRT-15s, and have mislead consumers about the legality of such devices.
“These machine gun conversion devices—which are machine guns under federal law—can turn any semi-automatic AR-type firearm into a weapon capable of shooting at a rate of fire similar to or exceeding that of an M16 machine gun manufactured for military use,” said John B. DeVito, special agent in charge at the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and…
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