State Legality Matrix / Forced Reset Triggers / Illinois
Statute-cited, last verified 2026-07-28
No. Treated as machine guns by the Illinois Attorney General under the existing unlawful-use-of-weapons statute; PICA's rate-of-fire provision also reaches them.
Controlling law: 720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(7); 720 ILCS 5/24-1.9
The Attorney General's office treats FRTs as banned under existing Illinois machine-gun law and sued over the 2025 federal settlement. SB1936 (the proposed Rafael Wordlaw Act, 104th GA) would write forced reset triggers into the machine-gun definition expressly but had NOT been enacted as of July 2026; do not cite it as enacted law.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.
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.
No. Treated as machine guns by the Illinois Attorney General under the existing unlawful-use-of-weapons statute; PICA's rate-of-fire provision also reaches them. Controlling law: 720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(7); 720 ILCS 5/24-1.9.
The controlling law is 720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(7); 720 ILCS 5/24-1.9. Treated as machine guns by the Illinois Attorney General under the existing unlawful-use-of-weapons statute; PICA's rate-of-fire provision also reaches them.
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.