State Legality Matrix / Binary Triggers / Connecticut
Statute-cited, last verified 2026-07-10
No. Prohibited as a rate of fire enhancement that fires more than one round per operation of the trigger. Effective 2018-10-01.
Controlling law: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53-206g
Section 53-206g bans manufacture, sale, and possession of rate-of-fire enhancements; the definition (trigger pull and reset as a single operation) captures binary trigger systems.
Binary triggers are legal under federal law and are not machine guns under 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b); ATF treats the trigger pull and the trigger release as two separate functions of the trigger, so one round is fired per function. Cargill v. Garland (2024) concerned bump stocks, not binary triggers, and does not change this.
Scope: Binary triggers (Franklin Armory BFSIII and similar): fire one round on trigger pull and one on release. Forced reset triggers are a separate class.
No. Prohibited as a rate of fire enhancement that fires more than one round per operation of the trigger. Effective 2018-10-01. Controlling law: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53-206g.
The controlling law is Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53-206g. Prohibited as a rate of fire enhancement that fires more than one round per operation of the trigger.
Connecticut's rule took effect 2018-10-01. Section 53-206g bans manufacture, sale, and possession of rate-of-fire enhancements; the definition (trigger pull and reset as a single operation) captures binary trigger systems.
Binary triggers are legal under federal law and are not machine guns under 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b); ATF treats the trigger pull and the trigger release as two separate functions of the trigger, so one round is fired per function. Cargill v. Garland (2024) concerned bump stocks, not binary triggers, and does not change this.