State Legality MatrixBinary TriggersFlorida
Statute-cited, last verified 2026-07-31
Restricted
Restricted. Likely prohibited under the broad bump-fire-stock rate-of-fire definition, but untested as applied to binary triggers. Effective 2018-03-09.
Controlling law: Fla. Stat. § 790.222
Contested entry
Section 790.222 defines a prohibited bump-fire stock expansively as any conversion kit, tool, accessory, or device used to increase the rate of fire faster than possible unassisted. No Florida court has ruled on whether a binary trigger qualifies; makers do not ship binaries to Florida, so this is treated as legally ambiguous rather than a clear statutory ban.
The statute in practice
Florida section 790.222 defines 'bump-fire stock' broadly enough to include a conversion kit, tool, accessory, or device used to alter a firearm's rate so it mimics automatic fire or exceeds the unaided rate. The text does not name binary triggers, and the state appellate courts have not supplied a binary-specific construction of that assisted-rate language.
Timeline
Federal law
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.
Common questions
Restricted. Likely prohibited under the broad bump-fire-stock rate-of-fire definition, but untested as applied to binary triggers. Effective 2018-03-09. Controlling law: Fla. Stat. § 790.222.
The controlling law is Fla. Stat. § 790.222. Likely prohibited under the broad bump-fire-stock rate-of-fire definition, but untested as applied to binary triggers.
Florida's rule took effect 2018-03-09. Section 790.222 defines a prohibited bump-fire stock expansively as any conversion kit, tool, accessory, or device used to increase the rate of fire faster than possible unassisted. No Florida court has ruled on whether a binary trigger qualifies; makers do not ship binaries to Florida, so this is treated as legally ambiguous rather than a clear statutory ban.
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.