Method of blank firing
AssigneeCentre Firearms Co., Inc.
InventorsSteven Genna, Juan D. Cabrera, Richard Ryder Washburn, III
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Abstract
A method of firing a firearm includes providing a blank firing adapter plus bullet trap attached to the end of a barrel of the firearm, the blank firing adapter plus bullet trap including a bore aligned with a longitudinal axis of the barrel; providing a magazine that limits loading of up to two live rounds; and arranging for a blast from a cartridge in the firearm to eject a shell casing from the cartridge and automatically operate the firearm to insert a new cartridge from the magazine into a chamber of the firearm.
Claims15
A method of trapping a bullet fired from a firearm, comprising:
- providing a gun barrel for the firearm, the gun barrel having a partially smooth bore, on the firearm;
- providing a blank firing adapter plus bullet trap attached to a muzzle end of the gun barrel, the blank firing adapter plus bullet trap including a bore aligned with a longitudinal axis of the gun barrel;
- arranging for a blast in the firearm to cause a bullet to travel in the gun barrel in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the gun barrel toward the blank firing adapter plus bullet trap;
- and
- stopping the bullet in the blank firing adapter plus bullet trap.
A method of firing a firearm, comprising:
- providing a blank firing adapter plus bullet trap attached to the end of a barrel of the firearm, the blank firing adapter plus bullet trap including a bore aligned with a longitudinal axis of the barrel;
- providing a magazine that limits loading of up to two live rounds;
- and
- arranging for a blast from a cartridge in the firearm to eject a shell casing from the cartridge and automatically operate the firearm to insert a new cartridge from the magazine into a chamber of the firearm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.