Are Forced Reset Triggers Legal in Nebraska?

Nebraska Revised Statutes section 28-1201 defines a machine gun as any firearm, whatever its size and usual designation, that shoots automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The definition does not create a separate forced-reset or rate-increasing-trigger category.

Section 13-330 declares the regulation of firearm ownership, possession, storage, transportation, sale, and transfer a matter of statewide concern and limits local ordinances on those subjects.

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.