​The Secret Path of RBT’s FRT 15 Trigger is Exposed
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(Austin, Texas – 11/05/2023) United States District Court filings reveal that the path RBT took to acquire and sell the FRT-15 trigger technology was a path hidden from the ATF, RBT’s own customers, and the inventor of Flex Fire Technology.

Thomas Allen Graves developed the G1 Combat carbine beginning as early as 2013 building from his previous experience with multiple engines, marine jets, and firearms. During G1 Combat carbine development Graves was granted multiple patents applicable to the G1 Combat carbine or other firearms and forming the Flex Fire Technology portfolio.

In the process of the G1 Combat carbine development Graves licensed the use Flex Fire Technology to Steven Cooper Rounds and Jeffery Cooper Rounds collectively as Wolf Tactical LLC for use in Stoner AR type firearms. Wolf Tactical used a derivative of Flex Fire Technology to produce multiple triggers including the AR 1 trigger.

The individuals that comprise Rare Breed Triggers LLC had been looking for a product that they could use to challenge the ATF, NFA, and other firearm laws. Rare Breed Triggers found Flex Fire Technology and proceeded to conspire a felony level conversion of Graves’ assets beginning with the AR 1 trigger. Rare Breed Triggers President has stated that ”along the way we kind of happened across this technology”.  

During 2017 Wolf Tactical in conspiracy with the individuals that came to comprise Rare Breed Triggers and others submitted an AR 1 trigger equipped firearm to the ATF for classification. On August 28, 2018 the ATF sent a letter to Wolf Tactical stating that the AR 1 trigger equipped firearm was a machinegun.

Wolf Tactical and the others then further conspired to produce an additional derivative of a Flex Fire Technology based trigger. This derivative became the FRT 15 trigger. The FRT 15 is both derivative and subjective to Graves’ “core” Flex Fire Technology patent claim but was produced without license by Rare Breed Triggers beginning about October, 2020.
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Rare Breed Triggers’ unauthorized use of Flex Fire Technology is the basis for the FRT 15 trigger. Rare Breed Triggers is now implicated in an industry-wide conspiracy as the epicenter of  counterfeiting and a felony conversion of Graves’ assets that may exceed the previously reported $500M. 

​Sources:

• United States v. Rare Breed Triggers, LLC, 1:23-cv-00369
• Rare Breed Triggers, LLC v. Garland, 6:21-cv-1245
• Rare Breed Triggers, LLC  v. Big Daddy Enterprises, Inc.,  1:21cv149
• Rare Breed Triggers, LLC v. Big Daddy Unlimited, Inc., 1:2022cv00061
• Rare Breed Triggers, LLC v. Strbac, 1:2022cv00280
• ABC IP, LLC v. Thomas Allen Graves, cv22-0261
• Rare Breed Triggers, LLC v. Graves, 4:22-cv-00107
• Rare Breed Triggers, LLC v. Crawford, 4:2023cv00021
• National Association for Gun Rights, Inc., v. Garland et al, 4:2023cv00830