Attorneys general from D.C. and several states, including Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey, announced Monday they are suing President Donald Trump’s administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms over its plans to allow for the legalization of machine gun conversion devices across the U.S.

More than a dozen states and D.C. filed a federal lawsuit in District Court in Maryland against the Trump administration, after the White House last month settled a lawsuit on the issue of what are called forced reset triggers.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown is among the prosecutors seeking to prevent the add-on device from being available to gun owners.

“Forced reset triggers allow semiautomatic weapons to be turned into fully automatic machine guns,” Brown said at a news

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