Posted: 3/21/2025 8:41:57 PM EDT
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Let's say hypothetically the iowa ban on the sale of "trigger activating devices" were aplicable to frt's... (which I don't think it is) Unlike other frt's, there are tons of vendors that have no issue selling and shipping Super Safeties (another type of FRT) to iowa customers. Posession is not outlawed, so would there be any legal argument that the purchaser is in the wrong? Accessory to the crime of the unlawful sale? could it be confinscated because it was not legal to sell in the first place? These can be 3d printed easily, but there is a blossoming market for metal made ones which last much longer. |
I suggest we trade a question mark in for a maybe.
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| The way the law reads, the sale of such items is illegal, not the purchase. So the way I understand that, any violation would be on the seller. |
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Originally Posted By shack357: The way the law reads, the sale of such items is illegal, not the purchase. So the way I understand that, any violation would be on the seller. Same here, i'm just trying to cover my bases and see if there is any way to twist it before I find myself having to attempt to justify myself to a LEO when someone calls in about hearing someone shooting a "machine gun" |
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724.29 Firearm devices. A person who sells or offers for sale a manual or power-driven trigger activating device constructed and designed so that when attached to a firearm increases the rate of fire of thefirearm is guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor. 90 Acts, ch 1147, §10 Sat Dec 23 12:32:21 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 724.29 (17, 0) Riddle me this. What was the rate of fire of the firearm before the device was attached? That is an undefinable rate, but it is one of the elements which must be proven for a conviction. Am I wrong? |
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Originally Posted By Kernman: 724.29 Firearm devices. A person who sells or offers for sale a manual or power-driven trigger activating device constructed and designed so that when attached to a firearm increases the rate of fire of thefirearm is guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor. 90 Acts, ch 1147, §10 Sat Dec 23 12:32:21 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 724.29 (17, 0) Riddle me this. What was the rate of fire of the firearm before the device was attached? That is an undefinable rate, but it is one of the elements which must be proven for a conviction. Am I wrong? If it's a trigger activating device that controlls the rate of fire, so is the milspec safety it replaces... And I have never sold or offered one for sale... this is the bigger point |
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Fellow ARFCOMer's, here is the answer to your questions: https://iowafc.org/2025/04/04/are-forced-reset-triggers-legal-in-iowa-code-yes-they-are/ |
Dave Funk
Past President and now a Board of Directors member Iowa Firearms Coalition.
Past President and now a Board of Directors member Iowa Firearms Coalition.