CZ Scorpion FRT: Rare Breed FRT-SC3 Announced, No Ship Date

No. As of July 2026 you cannot buy a forced reset trigger for the CZ Scorpion EVO 3 or the Scorpion 3+ from anyone. Rare Breed has announced one, the FRT-SC3, and it is the only Scorpion FRT any manufacturer has publicly committed to. Nothing from Triggered Company, Trinity, Mars, Wide Open, or Hoffman covers the platform, and no small-shop conversion service has picked it up the way Skunkwerks did for the Stribog.

That is the entire field. The Scorpion is one of the most modified PCCs in the country, with triggers, receivers, handguards, and magazines from a dozen makers, and the forced-reset category is still a blank space. Everything else you will read about "fast Scorpion triggers" is either a binary, which is a different mechanism, or a spring kit that changes pull weight and nothing else. Our full CZ Scorpion upgrade guide ranks the parts that do exist.

The FRT-SC3 is a three-position forced reset trigger listed for the CZ Scorpion and the Nexus Firearms Evo Gen 1 and Gen 2 receivers. The product page is marked "COMING SOON" with a rough release window of late spring to early summer. That window has now passed. No price is posted, the listing shows a placeholder value of $0.00, and the cart controls are disabled. There is no shipping date, no published trigger-pull spec, and no bolt-carrier requirement documented.

The three-position layout matters, because it is the design Rare Breed has moved to across its newer products: safe, semi-auto, and forced reset, selectable rather than a fixed-function drop-in. Rare Breed shipped that architecture first on the AR-15 with the FRT-15L3 at $450, its first new trigger after the 2025 settlement, and the SC3 name follows the same convention. Use the L3 as the pricing reference point until Rare Breed posts a number; the company has not committed to one for the SC3.

One detail from the listing is worth reading closely: it covers the Nexus Evo Gen 1 and Gen 2 receivers alongside the factory Scorpion. Nexus is the company that builds the aftermarket delayed-blowback Scorpion receiver, and a trigger developer choosing to validate against that hardware tells you the bolt-speed problem below is on their radar too.

A binary trigger fires one round on the pull and a second round on the release, so one complete finger cycle sends two rounds. A forced reset trigger fires one round per pull and uses the bolt carrier travelling rearward to physically drive the trigger forward against your finger, resetting it faster than you can release it yourself. Same felt effect at the muzzle, completely different mechanism.

The distinction is not academic. It is the entire basis of the FRT's federal legal position: one round per function of the trigger, which is why the 2025 DOJ settlement returned Rare Breed's products to the market with no tax stamp and no ATF paperwork. Binaries have never been argued on that ground and carry a different state map. Anyone selling you a Scorpion "FRT" that fires on pull and release is selling you a binary. Our FRT buyer's guide breaks the two categories apart in detail, and the super safety guide covers the third category, forced-reset selectors, which have no Scorpion equivalent either.

The Franklin Armory BFSIII CZ-C1 is the only shipping three-position trigger for the CZ Scorpion, at $449.99. Safe, semi, and binary, with an ambidextrous safety selector in the box, so the install also replaces the factory selector that most Scorpion owners swap anyway. The CZ-C1 is the curved shoe; the CZ-S1 is the flat-faced straight shoe with identical internals.

Binary mode fires on pull and on release. You can abort the release shot by moving the selector out of binary while the trigger is still held back, which is the safety behavior worth drilling before you take the gun to a live bay. Franklin states the BFSIII will fit most CZ Scorpion variants including the Scorpion 3+, and notes that some trigger housings may require additional fitting by a gunsmith or a Franklin Armory certified armorer.

The BFSIII is the most expensive Scorpion trigger upgrade by a wide margin and it is a range toy, not a duty or defensive setup. If rate of fire is not the goal, an HB Industries spring kit is a tenth of the cost and does not touch hammer reset timing. If it is the goal, read the next section before you order, because the trigger is only half the purchase. Cross-shop the rest of the category in our best binary triggers guide.

Do not run a binary or a forced reset trigger on a factory Scorpion bolt. The factory bolt is heat-treated to roughly 43 HRC. On a straight-blowback gun with a fast hammer reset, the hammer rides over the bolt and peens the metal around the striker-block hole. When that burr forms, it can hold the striker block depressed, the in-battery safety stops doing its job, and the gun can fire before the bolt is locked up. This is a documented failure mode on the platform, and the Scorpion 3+ did not redesign the bolt or the in-battery sear.

The Nexus Firearms Enhanced Bolt is the direct fix: a D2 tool steel body at a minimum 58 HRC with a Nickel Boron surface around 70 HRC, plus heat-treated 17-4 internals. It drops into both the EVO 3 and the 3+. Budget it into the trigger purchase, not after it.

The stronger answer is to delete the condition instead of hardening against it. The Nexus Evo Gen 2 receiver replaces the factory polymer receiver with billet aluminum and converts the action from straight blowback to ball-bearing delayed blowback. Bolt bounce and the over-travel that drives the peening go away, recoil drops by as much as 35 percent with the matched bolt, and port pop under a can gets noticeably quieter. It is also the hardware Rare Breed named in the FRT-SC3 listing, which is the clearest signal available about what that trigger will want under it.

Build an AR-pattern 9mm that eats Scorpion magazines and put an AR-15 forced reset trigger in it. The PSA AR-V lower takes CZ Scorpion and AK-V U9 magazines and runs a standard AR fire control group, which means a Rare Breed FRT-15L3 drops straight in. This is a separate firearm, not a Scorpion conversion, and it is the only way to shoot a forced reset trigger off Scorpion mags right now.

Blowback 9mm hosts are the fussiest platform to run an FRT on: carrier mass, buffer weight, and ammo impulse all have to line up or the trigger goes dead after two rounds. Our AR9 FRT build guide covers the buffer and carrier tuning that makes it run, and the builder will show you what else bolts to the host you pick.

Forced reset triggers are federally legal and require no tax stamp. The 2025 DOJ settlement with Rare Breed established that an FRT fires one round per function of the trigger, which puts it outside the machine gun definition. Fifteen jurisdictions restrict FRTs or rapid-fire activators: CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NV, NJ, NY, OR, RI, and DC.

Binary triggers carry a different and partly overlapping list. Washington's machine gun statute reaches binaries even though it does not reach one-round-per-function FRTs, and several retailers will not ship a BFSIII into states where the legal position is unsettled. Check your own state before you order either one, and check it again if you move.

Do not pre-order or wait on the FRT-SC3. It has no price, no ship date, and a release window that has already slipped. If you want a Scorpion that doubles its rate of fire this month, the answer is the Franklin Armory BFSIII CZ-C1 plus the Nexus Enhanced Bolt, and the bolt is not negotiable. If you want a genuine forced reset trigger on Scorpion magazines, build a PSA AR-V and run the FRT-15L3 in it.

When the FRT-SC3 does land, assume it wants the same hardened bolt the binary does, and probably prefers the Nexus delayed-blowback receiver Rare Breed named in the listing. Buying that hardware now is not a bet on a trigger that may or may not ship; it is the fix for a wear problem the Scorpion has with any fast trigger.