Just ahead of the 2025 SHOT Show Franklin Armory started dropping new product releases that we’ll get to see at the show. First up is the latest addition to their Binary Firing System lineup. Franklin Armory has adapted their patented pull and release semiautomatic trigger technology to a completely assembled, drop-in ready polymer housing for the Ruger 10/22 platform, with the new 22-EZ Binary trigger.
The 22-EZ still uses the same three-position selectable trigger system that users are familiar with from all of their Binary triggers: Position One, safe; Position Two, traditional semiautomatic; Position Three, Binary. In Binary mode, a single round is fired when the trigger is pulled and a single round is fired when the trigger is released. Franklin Armory’s Binary Firing System boasts the ability to cancel the release round by moving the selector switch from Binary to either the “safe” or “semi” position before releasing the trigger. You can see more information on how the Binary Firing System works in Franklin’s video “How Binary Works.”
The new 22-EZ not only makes Binary trigger installation easy, it also is more affordable since it uses a polymer trigger housing, much like the factory Ruger units. MSRP on the 22-EZ is only $370. Franklin Armory anticipates shipping 22-EZ in Q1 of this year. If you do like the the idea of a Franklin Arms Binary trigger assembled in an aluminum housing, they still offer the 22Plinkster Edition (model 22-C1-P) for an MSRP of $470.
I’ve considered getting one of these for one of my 10/22s for a while now and personally, I’m just fine with a polymer trigger housing, especially if it’s saving me a hundred bucks. Keep an eye out for TTAG’s SHOT coverage next week, and we’ll see if we can find out more at the show.
For more information on the new 22-EZ Binary trigger or any of Franklin Armory’s other products, check out their website at FranklinArmory.com. You can also follow them on Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter) and YouTube.
Awesome! I’m getting one!
Cool can’t own one in NY but glad it is getting more common as an option.
Serious question. What is the obsession with rapid fire?
Missouri_Mule,
First of all, rapid fire is just plain fun. Think of semi-automatic fire as sledding down a snowy hill and rapid fire as rocketing away on a crazy-fast snowmobile. Sledding is fun–snowmobiling is way more fun.
Second, rapid fire has incredible utility in close-quarters self-defense situations where attackers are overrunning your position. Years ago I saw a video where multiple armed thieves ran a vehicle through a business wall and then poured out into the business to rob it. The business owner engaged them with a semi-automatic rifle and struggled to keep them at bay with a very limited semi-automatic rate of fire. I am certain that rapid fire capability would have significantly increased the odds of the business owner prevailing.
Because it is being denied as an option wherever possible and is quite effective in suppression especially in a fatal funnel.
I think this is a stupid gimick. If you want on good for you.
Would prefer full auto but both are equally banned in my region. With that said the more floating around in normal use the less unusual such rates of fire can be disingenuously portrayed as. Such are the games we are made to play for our civil liberties.
I continue to question why fedzilla has not declared binary triggers to be illegal automatic fire conversion devices.
Anyone have any insight as to why fedzilla has not attacked the legality of binary triggers?
The ATF actually stated why the binary is ok when they came out with their 500+ page “bumpstock” ban paperwork. Essentially, the fire on release is not an automatic function of the trigger. basically you can hold the trigger to the rear and the release shot will not fire, you have to have a conscious release of the trigger to fire the second shot.
The second part of it is that the fire on release can be cancelled, so you can hold the trigger to the rear, rotate the selector to semi or safe and cancel the fire on release, so it is not an “automatic” function of the trigger.
They would lose, hard. Especially post Chevron relevance. Leaving it legal but ambiguous keeps future bans an option in less freedom friendly courts to come.
my kids takedown charger was half that.
my larue was $99.
as much fun as this novelty would be (not knowing any of them allowed the cancelling of the release round makes this more tempting), pass.
The gun looks cool, the trigger seems meh, but those stairs are filthy. There are even liquid stains on the left side. I would have thought they could find a better backdrop for a new product like a shooting range or a curtain, or even a plain workbench.