State Legality MatrixForced Reset TriggersNevada
Statute-cited, not legal advice, last verified 2026-10-20
Banned
No. Treated as prohibited under the rate-of-fire device ban; statutory coverage of one-pull FRTs is contested. Effective 2019-06-14.
Controlling law: Nev. Rev. Stat. § 202.274 (AB 291, 2019)
Contested entry
NRS 202.274 requires the device to eliminate the need for a separate trigger movement per shot AND materially increase rate of fire or approximate a machine gun. Whether a one-pull-per-round FRT meets the first element is contested and untested in court. Nevada joined the June 2025 multistate suit opposing the federal FRT settlement (voluntarily dismissed in April 2026), so this cell stays conservative at banned; a category D felony if covered. Sections 25-28 of AB 291 took effect on approval (June 14, 2019), not the January 1, 2020 date that applied to the rest of the act.
The statute in practice
Nevada Revised Statutes section 202.274 prohibits a device that, when attached to a semiautomatic firearm, eliminates the need for the operator to make a separate movement for each individual function of the trigger and materially increases the rate of fire or approximates the action or rate of fire of a machine gun.
A forced reset trigger mechanically resets after each shot and still produces one shot for each trigger function, which creates a genuine textual dispute over the separate-movement language. Nevada's Attorney General joined the 2025 multistate suit against the federal settlement and described FRTs as machine-gun conversion devices.
Timeline
What it means for you
NRS 202.274 covers importing, selling, manufacturing, transferring, receiving, and possessing a covered device, with official-duty exceptions for law enforcement and the armed forces and no general grandfather clause. Rare Breed Triggers' published no-ship list does not include Nevada, and a seller's willingness to accept an order does not resolve whether a device falls within the statute.
Federal law
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.
Common questions
No. Treated as prohibited under the rate-of-fire device ban; statutory coverage of one-pull FRTs is contested. Effective 2019-06-14. Controlling law: Nev. Rev. Stat. § 202.274 (AB 291, 2019).
The controlling law is Nev. Rev. Stat. § 202.274 (AB 291, 2019). Treated as prohibited under the rate-of-fire device ban; statutory coverage of one-pull FRTs is contested.
Nevada's rule took effect 2019-06-14. NRS 202.274 requires the device to eliminate the need for a separate trigger movement per shot AND materially increase rate of fire or approximate a machine gun. Whether a one-pull-per-round FRT meets the first element is contested and untested in court. Nevada joined the June 2025 multistate suit opposing the federal FRT settlement (voluntarily dismissed in April 2026), so this cell stays conservative at banned; a category D felony if covered. Sections 25-28 of AB 291 took effect on approval (June 14, 2019), not the January 1, 2020 date that applied to the rest of the act.
Nevada's separate-movement language does not simply copy the federal machine-gun definition. No court has tested it against a one-pull FRT, and the Attorney General has described FRTs as machine-gun conversion devices.
A violation of the device prohibition is a category D felony.