Feb 19, 2025 · Big Daddy Unlimited (BDU) would start selling what the courts would determine as a knockoff of the FRT-15 called the Wide Open Trigger (WOT). The ATF would visit BDU and confiscate all WOTs...

Apr 20, 2023 · The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has begun an effort to recover Wide Open Triggers (WOT) from gun owners in multiple states. The WOT is a forced reset trigger (FRT)....

Dec 19, 2024 · Another trigger ruled a knockoff of the FRT-15 by a Federal Court is the Wide Open Trigger (WOT), which was produced and sold by the now-defunct Big Daddy Unlimited (BDU). The ATF claims that...

ATF Forfeiture: In 2020, the ATF initiated a separate action against BDU, aiming to seize their “Wide Open Trigger” and “Alamo 15” products. The agency classified these products as machine guns, which are highly regulated and restricted under federal law.

Jan 27, 2022 · Last night, news broke from Gun Owners of America (GOA) that they had received a leaked internal email written by the ATF. In that email the Agency had written and distributed instructions to its field how to deal with manufacturers, distributors, and retailers who are in possession of Forced Reset Triggers (FRT) by Rare Breed and Big Daddy ...

Sep 16, 2021 · If BDU wanted to stand up to the ATF, they'd sell the FRT and get more out there to consumers: not divide the market, possibly infringe on a copyright, and be wholly unprepared for a court case. What makes the FRT and Rare Breed different is that the FRT was designed with input from attorneys and Rare Breed was set up to be as protected as ...

BDU appears to have started selling a similar facsimile of the FRT right after FRT received a cease and desist from the ATF. While FRT was fighting the ATF, BDU appeared to undercut them by basically copying and selling the design.

Apr 1, 2022 · But Rare Breed was burning big money fighting the ATF and fighting BDU for patent violations. With the Alamo-15 I think BDU is going about it a different way. Spend big money bribing the right people. And BDU has allot more money than Rare Breed did. I did own a Rare Breed and WOT, but just checking now and they both are gone.

Aug 29, 2023 · Rare Breed Triggers LLC has battled the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) over its FRT-15 trigger for the past few years, and American gun owners have been caught in...

Jan 27, 2022 · BREAKING: ATF is about to launch an assault on triggers it considers machine guns. According to internal ATF emails obtained by GOA, they just gave their field agents the green light to demand Rare Breed’s Forced Reset Triggers and …