Intrinsically safe firearm
OwnerBrent Ford Reganinventor
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Abstract
An intrinsically safe firearm may include a handle and a frame connected by a pivot pin. One or more latches of the firearm can temporarily fix the firearm in a stowed orientation or a deployed orientation. In the deployed orientation, a magazine of the firearm can be removed from the handle; a slide of the firearm can be removed from the frame; a magazine safety allows a firing pin to strike a primer of a round in the firearm; and a trigger of the firearm is accessible to discharge the round in the firearm. In the stowed orientation, the magazine is not removable from the handle; the slide is not removable from the frame; the magazine safety prevents the firing pin from striking the primer; and the trigger of the firearm is not accessible.
Claims20
A firearm comprising:
- a frame having a frame distal end and a frame proximal end;
- a handle fixed to the frame by a pivot pin, the handle configured to rotate about the pivot pin;
- a latch configured to temporarily fix the handle in a first position relative to the frame or a second position relative to the frame;
- a trigger of the firearm, the trigger connected to a trigger bar when the handle is in the first position and the trigger disconnected from the trigger bar when the handle is in the second position;
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- a power supply and a laser sight, the laser sight is electrically connected to the power supply when the handle is in the first position and the laser sight is electrically disconnected from the power supply when the handle is in the second position.
A firearm comprising:
- a frame;
- a handle configured to actuate relative to the frame in a first direction relative to the frame and in an opposite second direction relative to the frame to render the firearm in a deployed state or in a stowed state;
- a power supply;
- a laser sight, the laser sight electrically connected to the power supply in the deployed state and the laser sight electrically disconnected from the power supply in the stowed state;
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- a trigger and a trigger bar, the trigger is connected to the trigger bar in the deployed state and the trigger is disconnected from the trigger bar in the stowed state.
A method for converting a firearm from a deployed state to a stowed state, the method comprising:
- rotating a handle of the firearm relative to a frame of the firearm, the rotating causing:
- disconnecting a trigger of the firearm from a trigger bar of the firearm;
- opening an electrical circuit between a power supply and a laser sight;
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- covering an open end of a barrel of the firearm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.