Are Forced Reset Triggers Legal in Kentucky?

Kentucky's current weapons statutes do not establish a separate forced-reset or general rate-increasing-trigger category.

House Bill 299 in the 2026 Regular Session proposed a Class C felony for possessing a machine gun conversion device and would have defined machine gun in KRS Chapter 527. It passed the House 65 to 25 but did not complete enactment.

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.