Patent ID: 9127905
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: F41C

Abstract:
1. A hand grip adapted to be mounted on a receiver of a firearm including a trigger moveable in a plane between a forward position and a rearward position, the trigger depending from an underside of the receiver for actuating a firing sequence of the firearm, and including a trigger guard partially surrounding the trigger and secured to the underside of the receiver, the receiver possessing a magazine mouth disposed on the underside of the receiver and forward of the trigger and adapted to selectively receive and secure a detachable box magazine containing a plurality of cartridges, the receiver further possessing a lug depending from the underside of the receiver and rearward of the trigger and the trigger guard and adapted to engage a handle, the lug possessing a pair of opposing, parallel, side walls and possessing a beveled lower surface extending between the side walls and the lug having a threaded hole therein, the threaded hole adapted to receive a threaded fastening member for securing the handle to the lug, the hand grip consisting essentially of a unitary and integrally formed block possessing: a front portion; an upper portion; a pair of spaced, substantially parallel, planar walls disposed on a said front portion and said upper portion thereof and a beveled block surface disposed and extending between said planar walls, said planar walls and said beveled block surface forming a cavity adapted and configured to substantially conformingly receive the lug therein; a lower portion; a rear portion possessing a rear end having a rearward facing surface extending from said upper portion to said lower portion and curved throughout such extent in a saddle shaped configuration; and a borehole extending therethrough from said lower portion to said beveled block surface, said borehole adapted to receive a threaded fastening member therein that may selectively, threadably extend into the threaded hole so as to selectively secure the block to the lug; the block adapted to be disposed relative to the receiver such that the lug depends conformingly into the cavity thereof, such that the front portion thereof substantially abuts the trigger guard, such that a threaded fastening member may extend through the borehole and into the threaded hole to selectively secure the block to the lug, and such that when the block is so disposed, a person may grasp the block with the rearward facing surface abutting the webbed region of the person's hand between the thumb and the index finger and while in such an abutting relationship permit the distal end of the forefinger to extend to and around the trigger wherein the block is sized and configured such that, when the block is so disposed, the entire forward to rearward extent of the block is located underneath the receiver and a lowermost bottom surface of said block is substantially entirely coextensive with the lowest portion of the trigger guard.