Are Forced Reset Triggers Legal in Kansas?

Kansas Statutes section 21-6302(a)(5) makes it criminal carrying of a weapon to knowingly carry a firearm designed to discharge or capable of discharging automatically more than once by a single function of the trigger, a severity level 9 nonperson felony.

Kansas does not add a separate forced-reset-trigger or rate-increasing-device category, so the state-law comparison focuses on the firing cycle described in that subsection.

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.