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Ambidextrous push-button magazine release for side-locking ammunition magazines

  • US 7,921,587 B2
  • Filed: 01/11/2008
  • Issued: 04/12/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An ambidextrous magazine release for a firearm, the firearm having a magazine well configured to operatively receive a magazine, the magazine having a side locking recess within the magazine well when operatively received therein, the ambidextrous magazine release comprising:

  • a linkage movable between an engaged position and a disengaged position having a lock pin configured to be received in a side-locking recess of a magazine operatively received in the magazine well with the linkage in the engaged position and to clear the side-locking recess with the linkage in the disengaged position;

    a one piece actuator on the firearm, the actuator comprising a bar having opposing push surfaces extending between a right and a left side of the firearm; and

    an interface between the linkage and the actuator, the interface being configured so that as the either of the opposing push surfaces of the bar is pushed by a user, the linkage is moved between the engaged and the disengaged position;

    wherein the linkage interface comprises a recess in the bar defining a pair of converging cam surfaces and a cam rider extending from the linkage into contact with the cam surfaces, the linkage being in the engaged position with the cam rider at the convergence of the cam surfaces.

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