Are Binary Triggers Legal in Georgia?

Georgia section 16-11-121 defines a machine gun as a weapon that shoots or is designed to shoot, automatically, more than six shots, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. A 1974 Attorney General opinion (U74-91) concluded that a gun firing fewer than six shots per function of the trigger is not a machine gun under Georgia 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.

Federal baseline verified 2026-10-20. 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.