State Legality Matrix / Forced Reset Triggers / Nevada
Statute-cited, last verified 2026-07-28
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)
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, so this cell stays conservative at banned; class 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. Rare Breed's published no-ship list does not include Nevada as of July 2026, so maker shipping policy should not be cited as corroboration.
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 machine-gun fire.
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 nevertheless joined the 2025 multistate suit describing FRTs as machine gun conversion devices, so the conservative banned classification stands.
NRS 202.274 covers importing, selling, manufacturing, transferring, receiving, possessing, and transporting a covered device, with official-duty exceptions and no general grandfather clause. A seller's willingness to accept a Nevada order does not resolve whether the device falls within the statute.
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.
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, so this cell stays conservative at banned; class 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. Rare Breed's published no-ship list does not include Nevada as of July 2026, so maker shipping policy should not be cited as corroboration.
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.
The unresolved issue is Nevada's separate-movement language, which does not simply copy the federal machine-gun definition. No court has tested it against a one-pull FRT, and state officials treat FRTs as machine gun conversion devices, so the conservative reading controls until a court says otherwise.
A violation of the device prohibition is a category D felony.