State Legality MatrixForced Reset TriggersOregon
Statute-cited, not legal advice, last verified 2026-10-20
Banned
No. Prohibited as a rapid fire activator, with forced reset triggers named explicitly. Effective 2025-09-26.
Controlling law: Or. Rev. Stat. § 166.352 (SB 243, 2025)
Contested entry
SB 243 (Community Safety Firearms Act) defines forced reset trigger by name within rapid fire activator; transport, manufacture, or transfer is a class B felony and possession a class A misdemeanor.
The statute in practice
Oregon's 2025 Senate Bill 243 created a rapid-fire-activator offense and expressly included forced reset triggers, defined as devices that mechanically force the trigger to reset into a firing position after each round is fired.
Knowingly transporting a rapid fire activator into Oregon, or manufacturing, selling, offering to sell, or transferring one, is a Class B felony; knowingly possessing, purchasing, or receiving one is a Class A misdemeanor.
Timeline
What it means for you
ORS 166.352 exempts law-enforcement personnel acting with agency authorization and devices possessed only for use in a federally registered machine gun.
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. Prohibited as a rapid fire activator, with forced reset triggers named explicitly. Effective 2025-09-26. Controlling law: Or. Rev. Stat. § 166.352 (SB 243, 2025).
The controlling law is Or. Rev. Stat. § 166.352 (SB 243, 2025). Prohibited as a rapid fire activator, with forced reset triggers named explicitly.
Oregon's rule took effect 2025-09-26. SB 243 (Community Safety Firearms Act) defines forced reset trigger by name within rapid fire activator; transport, manufacture, or transfer is a class B felony and possession a class A misdemeanor.