Patent ID: 8132496
Filing Date: 2012-03-13
Classification: F41A,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An automatic safety for a firearm having a firing pin having a lobe, a hammer-type firing mechanism having a hammer releasably engageable with the firing pin, the hammer having a hammer pin, a trigger bar connected to the hammer-type firing mechanism, and a trigger connected to the trigger bar, the automatic safety comprising: a flange releasably engageable with a lobe, wherein the flange is biased into engagement with the lobe by a spring; and a pivot lock arm rotatably mounted to a hammer pin and releasably engageable with the flange; wherein actuation of a trigger causes a hammer-type firing mechanism including a hammer pin to actuate via a trigger bar, the actuation of the hammer pin causing the pivot lock arm to rotate into engagement with the flange and reciprocate the flange out of engagement with the lobe; whereby the firearm is disabled unless and until the trigger is actuated and the flange reciprocates out of engagement with the lobe.