Patent ID: 7200966
Filing Date: 2007-04-10
Classification: F41C

Abstract:
1. A weapon stock, adapted to receive a firing assembly including a barrel and a receiver connected to the barrel, said weapon stock having a pistol grip interposed between a first forestock located towards a forward end and a buttstock located towards a rear end, such that in assembly with said firing assembly, said barrel is located adjacent to said first forestock towards said forward end, wherein said weapon stock further includes an elongated lower second forestock spatially separated below said first forestock for at least part of its length at a location substantially at or below the pistol grip and extending for a distance equal to or less than the distance between an end of the barrel distal to said receiver and an end of the buttstock distal to the barrel, said second forestock being attached to said first forestock at one attachment point and attached to either the buttstock or the pistol grip at another attachment point wherein at one or more said attachment point(s) the second forestock is not integrally formed with said stock, wherein at least one said attachment point is attached to said first forestock by one or more bracing elements extending downwardly from the first forestock and wherein at least one said bracing element is a handgrip, and wherein the second forestock extends below any pistol grip barrel, receiver, trigger and magazine (where fitted).