Are Forced Reset Triggers Legal in Alaska?

Alaska's prohibited-weapons statutes do not create a separate rate-increasing-trigger category. The controlling comparison is the traditional machine-gun test: automatic fire of more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single trigger function.

SB 203 in the 2025-2026 legislature illustrates the narrower issue lawmakers have considered. Its introduced text addresses devices intended to convert a handgun into a machine gun rather than triggers that require a separate function for every shot.

Under the 2025 DOJ settlement with Rare Breed Triggers, an FRT fires one round per trigger function and is not an NFA machine gun federally. The settlement covers rifles and grip-forward pistols; it does not extend to grip-fed handguns (Glock, S&W M&P, Canik), whose federal FRT status remains less settled. State bans operate independently of federal law through broader state machine-gun, trigger-activator, or rate-of-fire definitions.

Scope: Forced reset triggers (Rare Breed FRT-15, Dairyland Defender, and similar) and forced-reset selectors (AR Super Safety, ARC-Fire). One round per trigger function. Binary triggers are a separate class.