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;
- a handle configured to actuate 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 a stowed state;
- and
- a firing pin, the firing pin configured to contact a primer of a round chambered in the firearm by disengaging a firing pin safety using a magazine safety of a magazine in the deployed state, and the firing pin mechanically prevented from contacting the primer of the round by disposing the firing pin safety between the firing pin and the primer in the stowed state.
A method for converting a firearm from a deployed state to a stowed state, a magazine safety disengages a firing pin safety of the firearm in the deployed state, the method comprising:
- actuating a handle of the firearm relative to a frame of the firearm from the deployed state to the stowed state;
- and
- preventing a firing pin from contacting a round in a chamber of the firearm by disposing the firing pin safety between the firing pin and the round in the stowed state.
A firearm comprising:
- a frame;
- a handle configured to actuate in first and second directions relative to the frame to render the firearm in a first state or a second state;
- and
- a firing pin, the firing pin configured to contact a round disposed in the firearm by disengaging a firing pin safety using a magazine safety in the first state, and the firing pin prevented from contacting the round by disposing the firing pin safety between the round and the firing pin in the second state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.