Firearms – Breech loading – Magazine guns
Reexamination Certificate
2011-04-12
2011-04-12
Lee, Benjamin P (Department: 3641)
Firearms
Breech loading
Magazine guns
C042S049010, C089S197000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07921587
ABSTRACT:
An ambidextrous magazine release for a firearm is provided for a firearm having a magazine well configured to operatively receive a magazine having a side-locking recess received within the well. The ambidextrous magazine release comprises a linkage moveable between an engaged position and a disengaged position having a lock pin configured to be received in a side-locking recess of a magazine operatively received in the magazine well with the linkage in the engaged position and to clear the side-locking recess with the linkage in the disengaged position. An actuator is provided on the firearm comprising a bar having a opposing push surfaces extending between a right and left side of the firearm. An interface is provided between the linkage and actuator with the interface being configured so that as either of the opposing push surfaces of the bar is pushed by a user, the linkage is moved between the engaged and the disengaged position.
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Lee Benjamin P
Magpul Industries Corporation
Swanson & Bratschun L.L.C.
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