Patent ID: 6122851
Filing Date: 2000-09-26
Classification: F41A

Abstract:
A method of securing firearms from firing, which firearms have a slide rearwardly displaceable in a direction from a muzzle end towards a butt end when fired with the firearm in-battery, comprising the steps of:(a) moving the slide manually slightly rearwardly to a partially rearward position to disconnect the firearm from being in-battery for firing;(b) placing a housing over a sight that extends from a rearward portion of the slide, the housing having a pair of opposing side walls joined together by a top plate at respective distal ends, the top plate defining an engagement slot therein for receiving the sight therethrough;(c) moving a securing member from a disengaged position to an engaged position which operatively secures the housing to the slide in the partially rearward position in which a trigger mechanism of the handgun is disengaged from a firing pin mechanism to render the firearm out-of-battery; and(d) locking the securing member in the engaged position,whereby the securing member, being moved to the engaged position after inserting the sight at the rear portion of the slide of the handgun into the engagement slot in the top of the housing, restricts the slide from returning to an in-battery position and thereby holding the firearm disabled from firing.