Are Binary Triggers Legal in Nebraska?

Nebraska section 28-1201 defines a machine gun as a firearm that shoots automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger, and section 28-1203 makes transporting or possessing a machine gun a Class IV felony, except for persons qualified under federal law. Lincoln Municipal Code section 9.36.035 addresses multiburst trigger activators, and section 18-1703, as amended by LB 77 in 2023, declares null and void any county, city, or village ordinance regulating the ownership, possession, storage, transportation, sale, or transfer of firearms or other weapons except as state law expressly provides.

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.