Firearm identification tag for accessory mounting rail

Abstract

A firearm includes a firearm identification tag carried in a space between lugs of an accessory mounting rail. A firearm accessory mounting rail assembly includes a firearm identification tag carried in a recoil groove of a Picatinny rail, and including a housing having geometry complementary to a lug of the Picatinny rail, and a transmitter carried in the housing. A firearm identification tag for a firearm accessory mounting rail includes a trapezoidal housing having geometry complementary to Picatinny rail geometry and configured to be press fit between Picatinny lugs, and including sides, a major base, a minor base, and legs between the bases disposed at acute angles to the major base.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.