Are Forced Reset Triggers Legal in Utah?

Utah Code section 76-11-201 defines a fully automatic weapon by automatic fire of more than one shot, without manual reloading, through a single trigger function. It also defines a machine-gun attachment as a part or combination of parts designed and intended to convert a weapon to fully automatic fire.

Utah's definitions do not add a separate forced-reset-trigger or generic rate-increasing-trigger category. The automatic multi-shot result is the central statutory boundary.

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.