F41A 17/74
Hammer safeties, i.e. means for preventing the hammer from hitting the cartridge
Official title: Hammer safeties, i.e. means for preventing the hammer from hitting the cartridge or the firing pin (F41A17/02 - F41A17/40 take precedence)
F41A17/74 (Hammer safeties, i.e. means for preventing the hammer from hitting the cartridge) appears on 223 US grants and 129 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F41A- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Sear assembly for weapons11 Aug 2026US 12,704,339 B2Rade TecnologíAS, S.L.
- Modular AR-type safety selector with lever mounting pins3 Feb 2026US 12,540,786 B2Magpul Industries Corp.
- Firearm safety feature9 Dec 2025US 12,492,876 B2
- Gas powered semi-automatic airgun action18 Nov 2025US 12,474,139 B2Crosman Corporation
- Firearm with cocking safety lever10 Jun 2025US 12,326,307 B2Israel Weapon Industries (I.W.I) Ltd.
- Modular ar-type safety selector with lever mounting pins30 Apr 2026US 2026/0118079 A1Magpul Industries Corp.
- Forward rotating ar-15 safety8 Jan 2026US 2026/0009611 A1
- Trigger group for semi-automatic firearms8 Jan 2026US 2026/0009612 A1Franklin Armory Holdings, Inc.
- Sear assembly for weapons30 Oct 2025US 2025/0334369 A1Rade TecnologíAS, S.L.
- Safety Lever16 Oct 2025US 2025/0321066 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Firing lock with safety system for self loading fire arms74US 4,589,327 A1986
- Adjustable modular trigger assembly for firearms71US 9,046,313 B1O. F. Mossberg & Sons, Inc. · 2015
- Modular insertion trigger method and apparatus69US 7,421,937 B12008
- Bolt action rifle63US 4,651,455 A1987
- Firearm safety apparatus and method of using same55US 4,912,867 A1990