Apparatus for preventing the rapid reloading of a semi-automatic firearm

• US 10,228,205 B2
• Filed: 05/26/2017
• Issued: 03/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Daniel Claude Watt, Dean Francis Quinn
• Original Assignee: Daniel Claude Watt, Dean Francis Quinn
• Inventors: Quinn, Dean Francis, Watt, Daniel Claude
• Primary Examiner(s): Abdosh, Samir
• Application Number:
  US15/607,400
• Publication Number:
  US 20180321005A1
• Time in Patent Office: 655 Days
• Field of Search: 42 18, 42 7002, 42 7011, 42 7008, 42 102
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 17/38 Magazine mountings, e.g. for locking the magazine in the gun

Abstract

A firearm apparatus is described comprising a firearm upper assembly and a firearm lower assembly, the firearm lower assembly comprising a firearm magazine container, wherein swapping of or refilling of a firearm magazine that is resident within the magazine container necessitates at least partial removal of the firearm upper assembly or may require complete removal of the firearm upper assembly from the firearm lower assembly. Further, such an apparatus requires removal of a firearm magazine retaining device that secures a firearm magazine lock wherein the retaining device is inaccessible without the at least partial removal of the firearm upper assembly from the firearm lower assembly. The firearm lower assembly may have a firearm magazine container that has a closed or partially closed bottom end to prevent switching out of a firearm magazine and the firearm lower assembly may have an opening in the top end sized for receiving a firearm magazine. A new firearm lower assembly is described that has no magazine position button as well as a conversion kit and a method of using a conversion kit to convert a semi-automatic firearm with a readily detachable firearm magazine into a firearm having a non-readily detachable firearm magazine.

Claims

1. A firearm apparatus, comprising:

(a) a firearm upper assembly and a firearm lower assembly,

(b) the firearm lower assembly comprising a firearm magazine container, wherein swapping of or refilling of a firearm magazine resident within the firearm magazine container necessitates at least partial removal of the firearm upper assembly from the firearm lower assembly and further, requires removal of a retaining device from the lower assembly that engages with and secures a firearm magazine lock wherein the retaining device is inaccessible without the at least partial removal of the firearm upper assembly from the firearm lower assembly.

2. The firearm apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the firearm magazine container has a closed inaccessible bottom end and an opening in the top end for receiving a firearm magazine.

3. The firearm apparatus according to claim 1 wherein refilling of or swapping of a firearm magazine present within the magazine container necessitates complete removal of the firearm upper assembly from the firearm lower assembly.

4. The firearm apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the firearm lower assembly or the firearm magazine container is made from a resilient material.

5. The firearm apparatus according to claim 4 wherein the resilient material is a metal.

6. The firearm apparatus according to claim 4 wherein the resilient material is a polymer.

7. The firearm apparatus according to claim 4 wherein the resilient material comprises a mixture of a metal and a polymer.

8. The firearm apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the firearm magazine has a maximum capacity of 100 rounds.

9. The firearm apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the firearm magazine has a maximum capacity of 30 rounds.

10. The firearm apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the firearm magazine has a maximum capacity of 20 rounds.

11. The firearm apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the firearm magazine has a maximum capacity of between 1 and 10 rounds of ammunition.

12. The firearm apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the firearm magazine has a maximum capacity of 5 rounds.

13. The firearm apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the firearm apparatus is a semi-automatic rifle.

14. The firearm apparatus according to claim 9 wherein the firearm apparatus is an AR-15 or AR-16 semi-automatic rifle.

15. The firearm apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the firearm magazine container and the firearm magazine are combined into a refillable only single firearm container-firearm magazine device.

16. The firearm device according to claim 1 wherein the retaining device is a retaining screw or a retaining pin.

17. The firearm apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the firearm magazine container has a partially closed bottom end whereby a firearm magazine may not be inserted from the bottom end of the firearm magazine container, and an opening in the top end of the firearm magazine container for receiving a firearm magazine.