Are Forced Reset Triggers Legal in Vermont?

Vermont's rapid-fire provision at 13 V.S.A. section 4022 prohibits possessing a bump-fire stock, defined as a butt stock designed to be attached to a semiautomatic firearm and intended to increase its rate of fire to that of a fully automatic firearm by using recoil energy to generate reciprocating action that facilitates repeated activation of the trigger.

That definition describes an external stock, not an internal trigger. No Vermont statute names forced reset triggers or creates a trigger-activator category.

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.