Are Forced Reset Triggers Legal in Mississippi?

Mississippi Code section 97-37-39, enacted in 2024 as the Jeremy Todd Malone Law, addresses a device designed and intended to convert a semiautomatic firearm into a machine gun. It defines the resulting machine gun by automatic fire of more than one shot for a single trigger function.

That conversion-device language targets automatic-fire conversion mechanics. It does not create a separate generic category for every trigger that increases semiautomatic firing cadence.

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 2026-07-28. 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.