State Legality MatrixForced Reset TriggersFlorida
Statute-cited, not legal advice, last verified 2026-10-20
Restricted
Restricted. Likely reached by the broad bump-fire-stock rate-of-fire definition, but untested as applied to forced reset triggers. Effective 2018-10-01.
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 alter the rate of fire of a firearm to mimic automatic weapon fire, or to increase the rate of fire beyond what a person can achieve unassisted; a violation is a third-degree felony. No Florida court has ruled on whether a one-pull-per-round FRT qualifies, so the class is treated as legally ambiguous, the same posture as binary triggers under the same statute.
The statute in practice
Florida Statutes section 790.222 prohibits a bump-fire stock and defines the term broadly as a conversion kit, tool, accessory, or device used to alter a firearm's rate of fire to mimic automatic weapon fire, or used to increase the rate of fire beyond what a person can achieve unassisted.
Unlike statutes limited to firing multiple rounds from one trigger function, Florida's definition turns on assisted rate increase and mimicking automatic fire. That language likely reaches an FRT even though the device resets between rounds, and no Florida court has resolved the question.
Timeline
What it means for you
Section 790.222 prohibits importing, transferring, distributing, selling, keeping for sale, offering for sale, possessing, or giving another person a covered device, with no general possession grandfather clause; a violation is a third-degree felony. Rare Breed Triggers' published no-ship list does not include Florida, and availability from an out-of-state seller does not resolve the Florida definition.
Federal law
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.
Federal baseline verified 2026-10-20. 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.
Common questions
Restricted. Likely reached by the broad bump-fire-stock rate-of-fire definition, but untested as applied to forced reset triggers. Effective 2018-10-01. Controlling law: Fla. Stat. § 790.222.
The controlling law is Fla. Stat. § 790.222. Likely reached by the broad bump-fire-stock rate-of-fire definition, but untested as applied to forced reset triggers.
Florida's rule took effect 2018-10-01. Section 790.222 defines a prohibited bump-fire stock expansively as any conversion kit, tool, accessory, or device used to alter the rate of fire of a firearm to mimic automatic weapon fire, or to increase the rate of fire beyond what a person can achieve unassisted; a violation is a third-degree felony. No Florida court has ruled on whether a one-pull-per-round FRT qualifies, so the class is treated as legally ambiguous, the same posture as binary triggers under the same statute.
Section 790.222 uses a broader test: a device used to increase a firearm's rate of fire beyond what the shooter can achieve unassisted or to mimic automatic fire.
No. HB 6021 proposed a repeal but died in the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee on March 13, 2026. Section 790.222 remains in force.