Are Forced Reset Triggers Legal in Wisconsin?

Wisconsin Statutes section 941.26 bars selling, possessing, using, or transporting any machine gun or other full automatic firearm, with machine gun defined in section 941.25 as a weapon that shoots automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.

Section 941.26(1m) also bars modifying a firearm that is not designed to shoot more than one shot per single trigger function so that it does. Wisconsin does not add a separate forced-reset-trigger or general rate-increasing-device 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.