[UPDATED] DigiTrigger

This appears to be a machinegun under current ATF BSTD/AutoGlove/etc rulings. Now, the demo in the video is marked “Military & Police,” so I’m going to assume that it won’t be available to us peons, despite SCOTUS’ Miller ruling. But…

This civilian unit seems to have the same problem. Unlike a normal mechanical binary trigger, which fires one round when the finger pulls the trigger and a second round when the finger allows the trigger to reset, DigiTrigger appears to use the electronics to operate the firing mechanism twice for a single finger operation of the trigger. (see below) That is exactly why the ATF shut down the AutoGlove. The alleged single — “volitional” — operation of the trigger is the basic of the BSTD rule.


Update:  I contacted the company. The pull/release (P/R) mode is not burst, but fully simulates P/R: fire on pull, then fire when the finger lets the trigger reset. The DT1.6 digital machinegun I first mentioned is, as I expected, definitely NFA and is under development for the LE/Mil market. No surprise there.


I get it. People want to push the envelope of what they think is legal. But unless they’ve amassed a large pile of legal fund cash, and a herd of good attorneys, with the intent of a serious court challenge to BS ATF determinations and court decisions, all Digital Trigger Technologies is doing is asking for trouble.

If they know what they’re getting into and are willing to go to the mat on this, more power and the best of luck to them

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2 thoughts on “[UPDATED] DigiTrigger”

  1. With things in the country going the way they are, speaking about the 2nd amendment in particular, and those who seek to impose unilateral gun control regulations on all gun owners in the country, it seems to be a bad idea to go to the mat on anything other than things that will tend to move the fight forward on the 2nd amendment as a whole, and not just about ” hobby horse” issues.
    I am not attempting to be demeaning or insulting to anyone who wants to build things that they think should be acceptable on our firearms. I am just trying to point out that the time to design and install a new smoke detector is not while your house is on fire.
    It just seems pretty naive of some of the people on the pro gun side at times to think that those who wish to control their guns, and their lives, will willingly sit by and not fight tooth and nail to keep them from advancing on this other type of front. Bloomberg, Mommy’s who hate Guns, the Brady Bunch, or whomever, will most certainly fight them with as much money as it takes. So those of us who are pro gun should try to be somewhat united in our battle against even more gun grabs, that we can sit here and watch as the left wing politicians continually put their ideas forth, either through the presidential candidates at their whistle stops, or through the federal government and the state level government.
    Much is happening, at this time in our history as a nation. The children in high school will be able to look back on this time with a sense of history the way that my age group looks back at the Vietnam war, the Moon Landing, and the Sexual Revolution, as well as Richard Nixon’s resignation. They will either look at the next 3-5 years as the time that we regained some of our gun rights, or the time that we lost even more of our rights, and saw many law abiding American’s turned into felons, and arrested. It is our choice on what we will do as gun owners. Let us hope that we can look back on this time as a time of good things.

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