Why it matters: Forced reset devices have moved from AR-15s to pistols and pistol-caliber platforms since the 2025 federal settlement, and the B&T TP9 is now among the guns getting one. This video is an early public look at a lever-based design for it, and at a three-position update still in development.
Administrative Results has published a first look at a forced reset lever, or FRL, for the B&T TP9, the semi-automatic pistol version of the Swiss company's MP9 submachine gun. The ten-minute video, posted September 26, shows the host shooting a suppressed TP9 fitted with the lever in the desert, then comparing it with the Flux Raider, a pistol chassis built around the SIG Sauer P320. The host says the video is sponsored by OpticsPlanet and the Sonoran Desert Institute, and that an engineer from the team behind the lever was present off camera.
The host's account of how it works is a single line: "the lever rides a cam path that resets the trigger bar." The host adds that the pistol's factory firing pin safety is retained. The video gives no price, release date or round count, and the host says the day's shooting "technically wasn't a full burndown review."
Who makes the TP9 forced reset lever
According to the host, the lever was designed by Marksman Guns and Ammo, based in Peoria, and is being brought to market with Cloak Industries. The Reticle did not find a public product listing for the lever at press time. Cloak Industries currently sells assisted reset triggers for other B&T platforms, including the SPC9, GHM9 and APC9.
The current version has two positions: safe and what the host calls "full semi," the forced reset mode. A third position, restoring standard semi-automatic fire, is in development. The host relays that a member of the team said on set it "should be relatively soon," and says the designers are still working out how the third position will integrate with the TP9's safeties. The host says the existing lever works with both TP9 safety styles, the crossbolt and the lever.
TP9 FRL trigger feel and reliability reports
Much of the assessment concerns the trigger. The host notes that the TP9's factory trigger has a reputation as a poor semi-automatic trigger, and says that with the FRL installed "it's a no factor." The host compares it with pistol forced reset triggers previously tested on the channel, including the Texas Triggers unit for the P320, calling those "a lot more finicky" in how they ride with the trigger pull. The TP9 lever, by contrast, was "very intuitive, very easy to use," and "breaking up of the shot groups was not hard whatsoever."
“The lever arrives on a pistol whose reputation among reviewers is mixed, and the video makes no claim to settle that question.”
J.D. Whitfield, The ReticleOn reliability the host is more cautious. The host describes creator reviews of the TP9 as mixed, citing problems reported by Brass Facts and by a group the host identifies as "my buddies over at Badlands," and says the test pistol ran without trouble for the ammunition fired that day. The host expects the gun might "start to see hiccups over time" and notes that a forced reset device would speed up the round count. The engineer's advice, relayed on camera, is to run the TP9 greased rather than only oiled to reduce parts wear; the host adds that the guns "aren't necessarily super robust."
B&T TP9 history and the Flux Raider comparison
The TP9 descends from the Steyr TMP, an Austrian design introduced in 1989. B&T acquired its drawings, tooling and design rights in 2001 and reintroduced it in 2004 as the MP9 and TP9 after more than 30 engineering changes. The host calls the MP9 "kind of like the gold standard of PDWs in a way," and cites a video by Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons that, in the host's summary, rated the MP9 above the Heckler & Koch MP7. The host says the argument makes sense given how plentiful 9mm ammunition is, while remaining an MP7 fan.
The video closes with the Flux Raider, which the host says "has kind of cemented itself on the market" as a popular choice among newer compact PDW-style guns. The host credits the Raider with a smaller suppressor setup and gives the TP9 the edge on looks. The host frames the lever as a "form and fun factor" upgrade rather than a hard-use one, and says of the project: "I want to see it succeed."
For context
- A forced reset trigger uses the gun's cycling to push the trigger forward against the shooter's finger, allowing faster semi-automatic fire while still firing one round per trigger function.
- Forced reset triggers are legal federally after the Justice Department's May 2025 settlement with Rare Breed Triggers, but roughly 15 states and the District of Columbia ban them, and a multistate challenge to the settlement is pending.
- Midnight Machine already sells a three-position forced reset kit for the TP9 that replaces the pistol's upper receiver.
