FIREARM

• US 20150198394A1
• Filed: 06/17/2014
• Published: 07/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Colt's Manufacturing IP Holding Company LLC
• Original Assignee: Colt's Manufacturing IP Holding Company LLC
• Inventors: Hochstrate, Paul M., Langevin, Kevin
• Granted Patent: US 9,404,694 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 11/02 Modular concepts, e.g. weapon-family concepts
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 15/14 the ejector being mounted on or within the bolt; Extractors per se
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 17/38 Magazine mountings, e.g. for locking the magazine in the gun
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 19/13 Percussion or firing pins, i.e. fixed or slidably-mounted striker elements; Mountings therefor F41A19/26 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 3/26 semi-automatically or automatically operated, e.g. having a slidable bolt-carrier and a rotatable bolt
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 3/66 Breech housings or frames; Receivers
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 9/41 pushing unbelted ammunition from a box magazine on the gun frame into the cartridge chamber
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 9/61 Magazines
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 9/65 Box magazines having a cartridge follower

Abstract

A rifle configured for firing a 7.62×39 mm round is provided. The rifle having: an upper receiver; a lower receiver, the upper receiver being removably secured to the lower receiver, wherein the lower receiver is configured to removably receive and secure a magazine therein, the magazine being configured to hold at least 30 rounds of a 7.62×39 mm ammunition; and wherein a magazine well of the lower receiver is configured to receive an adapter at a front of the lower receiver.

Claims