A man from Washington, D.C., is facing machine gun charges after visiting a Northern Virginia gun range with a 3D printed forced reset trigger (FRT).
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On September 22, 2025, Erez Avissar of Washington, D.C., rented a rifle from Silver Eagle Group (SEG) in Ashburn, VA. He took the gun into a shooting bay and proceeded to disassemble it. A SEG range safety officer (RSO) approached him and inquired about what he was doing. The man responded that he was testing out an FRT that didn’t work in his rifle. The RSO asked him where he got the FRT from, and the man told him that he 3D printed it. FRTs violate SEG’s policy, and he is also not allowed to modify rental guns. The RSO canceled his rental, and according to police reports, he was “sent on his way.” He was a member for six months at the time of the incident.
Four days later, someone made an anonymous text tip to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) reporting that Avissar had an FRT and was a resident of D.C. It is unclear if the anonymous citizen was an employee of SEG, but whoever it was had access to his name and address in D.C.
The case was assigned to MPD Investigator Allorie Keleman, who stated that an FRT can convert a semi-automatic firearm to a fully automatic firearm. Investigator Keleman is incorrect. An FRT works by the bolt forcing the trigger to reset, allowing the shooter to take quicker follow-up shots, but the rate of fire is less than that of a machine gun. Federal statute states that a machine gun fires multiple shots with a single function of a trigger.
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