Magazine

A magazine for a firearm which includes

• a plurality of tubular members arranged in side by side relationship each capable of receiving a plurality of cartridges, the tubular members being displaceably mountable on the firearm to permit displacement between an inoperative position for receiving fresh cartridges and an operative position for dispensing cartridges from the tubular members into a barrel of the firearm;
• a gate member pivotally mounted at an open end of the tubular members and having a protuberance in the path of an end cartridge to inhibit ejection of the cartridge from each tubular member, the gate member co-operating with a loading mechanism of the firearm and being operable to displace the gate member out of such path;
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• at least one catch member at an end region of the tubular members for preventing ejection of an end cartridge from one tubular member while a cartridge is being ejected from another tubular member, the catch member being pivotally mounted in a pivot block and being in the form of a plate having a nose on opposite sides of its end remote from its pivotal mounting, the plate being pivotable to cause each nose to project into the open end of one tubular member to prevent ejection of an end cartridge from that tubular member while an end cartridge from another tubular member is being ejected.