Washington Attorney General Nick Brown announced a court-brokered agreement Friday that prevents the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from sending nearly 12,000 seized forced-reset triggers back to owners in states where such machine-gun conversion devices remain illegal. The carve-out comes after a coalition of 16 Democratic attorneys general sued the Trump administration last month over its plan to lift Biden-era restrictions and return the parts. In a filing with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, the Justice Department stipulated that the devices will only be returned to claimants in jurisdictions where state law allows them; otherwise, the triggers must be destroyed or transferred to licensed NFA dealers. Illinois AG Kwame Raoul and New Jersey AG Matthew Platkin heralded the deal as a major public-safety victory, noting evidence that forced-reset triggers can enable semi-automatic rifles to reach cyclic rates exceeding 800 rounds per minute, effectively creating unregistered machine guns. Gun Rights organizations argue the agreement infringes on Second Amendment rights affirmed by recent Supreme Court decisionspredicting a patchwork of enforcement and further litigation. Rare Breed Triggers, whose FRT-15 remains at the center of the dispute, said in a statement it welcomes federal recognition of private ownership but lamented politically motivated state restrictions.