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Firearm and magazine construction

  • US 4,034,644 A
  • Filed: 06/06/1975
  • Issued: 07/12/1977
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/10/1974
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A firearm, comprising a housing, a barrel mounted on said housing having a cartridge chamber, a magazine having a cartridge receptacle portion and formed in said housing and having a passage for cartridges extending between said receptacle portion and said cartridge chamber, said receptacle portion being a drum-like member rotatable in said housing and constructed to contain a plurality of cartridges therein in parallel relationship to said barrel, cartridge transport means in said magazine receptacle portion engageable with the cartridge therein to move said cartridges successively into alignment with said cartridge chamber, and a cartridge clip loading opening defined in said magazine housing communicating with said cartridge receptacle portion and having means thereon for positioning a cartridge loading container for transferring cartridges therefrom into said magazine receptacle portion and into association with said cartridge transport means, said cartridge receptacle portion including said drum-like member and a tangentially extending portion forming said passage, said tangentially extending portion being shiftable upon rotation of said drum-like portion between a position in which the upper end thereof is aligned with said cartridge chamber and a position in which the upper end thereof is aligned with the loading opening.

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