Sling-fitting equipment for an assault rifle of the AR15-M16 firearm family and equivalent models, and an assembly for installing the equipment

Sling-fitting equipment for an assault rifle of the AR15-M16 firearm family and equivalent models, comprising:

• a rear fixing member for fixing to a butt and a front fixing member for fixing to a barrel, a frontsight being carried by a quadrilateral support fixed to the barrel;
• the butt being engaged on a tube screwed to the body of the firearm, and being fixed to the tube by a screw passing through the buttplate;
• wherein:
• the rear fixing member comprises:
• a peg having a head pierced to receive a sling-engaging loop;
• the head bearing against the butt on top and on the outside;
• and
• the peg having a shank passing into the butt and being retained, free to rotate, in a retaining spacer carried by the rear end of the butt-support tube, between the tube and the buttplate;
• the front fixing member being a peg fixed to the rear limb of the support for the frontsight, between the frontsight and the barrel, said member being constituted by a head having a hole for receiving the other sling swivel, and a threaded shank passing through the rear limb of the frontsight support, and receiving a nut secured by a pin.