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. A true automatic-fire conversion remains subject to a different state and federal analysis from a mechanism that fires one round for each completed trigger function.

House Bill 299 in the 2026 Regular Session proposed a state offense for machine-gun conversion devices and used an automatic-fire definition. It passed the House 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.

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.