F41A 17/36
Locking the gun automatically in a safety condition when the magazine is
Official title: locking the gun {automatically} in a safety condition when the magazine is empty or removed {(F41A17/44 takes precedence)}
F41A17/36 (Locking the gun automatically in a safety condition when the magazine is) appears on 225 US grants and 190 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F41A- Granted patents
- 225
- Published applications
- 190
- Assignees
- 96
- Inventors
- 294
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 12 | 6 |
| 2025 | 10 | 13 |
| 2026 | 7 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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