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From what I understand I think u are right in that. Atf says cease and desist (ie stop selling ur product and work with us to ID anyone who already bought ur product). Then RB says, "go fly a kite, this is a legal product and our former atf experts all confirmed that before we started selling it" (all my words not theirs). So it's RB's lawsuit to continue to sell the product.Rare Breed only got a cease and desist order. But nothing else. Rare Breed initiated the lawsuit against the ATF I believe. Not sure if the ATF filed a countersuit/criminal charges?
Correct me if I'm wrong.
The bigger picture of that though of course is the government overreach by defining things as a "machine gun" that are not machine guns as the law stands (one function of the trigger, same basic argument for bump stocks imo).
I have seen similar in other industries not related to firearms and some of them have been absolutely outlandish. Gov says "you can't do that" when it's clearly outside of what the law says. And most people roll over because they do not have the $ or fortitude to fight it even though the law is on their side. And when they roll over it makes Gov agency's continue to think they can do it to the next person or business. Only way to stop it when it happens imo is lawsuit or if that government agency's funding is threatened. RB is fighting it and I applaud them for that.