Rare Breed Triggers, LLC

Rare Breed Triggers, LLC is a privately held firearms accessories manufacturer. The company was first incorporated in Florida in April 2020 and has since operated from locations in North Dakota and Texas. Kevin Maxwell is the owner, and Lawrence DeMonico is the company's president. While specific employee counts are not public, a 2023 court filing indicated the company had sold approximately 100,000 of its core product, generating $39 million in revenue in under two years.

The company's primary business is the design, manufacturing, and sale of aftermarket "forced reset triggers" (FRTs) for semi-automatic firearms, principally the AR-15 platform. Its flagship product, the FRT-15, uses the energy from the firearm's bolt carrier group to mechanically reset the trigger after each shot. This design allows for a significantly faster rate of fire than standard triggers while still operating as a semi-automatic mechanism, requiring one trigger pull for every round fired.

Rare Breed Triggers is an active patent enforcer. The company's litigation history in the provided database consists exclusively of 11 cases filed as a plaintiff and zero as a defendant, indicating a strategy of suing competitors for alleged patent infringement. This posture is that of an operating company asserting its intellectual property rights against other industry players.

The company is most notable for its high-profile legal battle with the U.S. government. In 2021, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) classified the company's FRT-15 trigger as an illegal machine gun, and the Department of Justice (DOJ) subsequently sued to halt its sales. After years of litigation, and following the Supreme Court's 2024 ruling in Garland v. Cargill concerning bump stocks, the DOJ settled its case against Rare Breed Triggers in May 2025. The settlement allows the company to continue selling its products under certain conditions.